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Example sentences for "overlapped"

Lexicographically close words:
overladen; overlaid; overlain; overland; overlap; overlapping; overlaps; overlay; overlaying; overlays
  1. Upper Cretaceous formations show that south of New England the waters of the Atlantic somewhat overlapped the crystalline rocks of the Piedmont Belt and spread their waste over the submerged coastal plain.

  2. Eastward her power extended weakly into regions inhabited almost entirely by Russians; westward she overlapped a German subject population.

  3. They may have overlapped in time, or Cro-Magnards may have followed the Grimaldi race, and either or both may have been contemporary with the late Neanderthal men.

  4. Prostomium very short, sunk in the first body ring and almost completely overlapped by the quadrate flap from the latter, this flap extending over the bases of the tentacles in the type.

  5. Anterior eye free on each side, the caudal one much farther mesad and overlapped by the peristomium.

  6. Presumably both of these species began their differentiation as southern populations of an ancestral fasciatus and later became isolated from it and continued their differentiation until they overlapped it again as distinct species.

  7. Seasonally, the sample of scats overlapped but little the sample of stomach contents, and was concentrated in the latter half of the growing season.

  8. The first slip seems to have taken place chiefly in the region between the two foci of the principal earthquake; possibly it overlapped both of them partly.

  9. At some places in the same area, it overlapped the beginning of the shock, but generally it was separated from the latter by a very short interval, estimated at a second.

  10. In many places it was apparent that the great waves of molten rock had flowed over and partly overlapped the lower ones.

  11. Many of the opossums trapped were probably at or near the edges of their home ranges which barely overlapped the study area; consequently the chances of recapturing them were poor.

  12. Separate individual territories are not important to opossums as home ranges overlapped in every instance.

  13. Quarrelton coal in the Johnstone field, showing the overlapped coal and the double coal, with the thick bed of greenstone, overlying the coal-field.

  14. Round the lower edge of this cylinder a groove is formed by the turning in of the plate of iron, and as it rises, the edge takes hold of the top rim of the cylinder f, which is overlapped for that purpose.

  15. Six or eight pieces are coiled upon the feed-roller, and they are neither pasted nor stitched together, but the ends are merely overlapped half a yard or so.

  16. And Sir Philip now found, that instead of lying over, it lay under, the four contiguous plates: they overlapped it, instead of being overlapped by it.

  17. Their lives overlapped each other considerably, so that no period is left uncovered.

  18. He possesses a command of the overlapped heroic couplet, which for sweep and rush of rhythm cannot be surpassed anywhere.

  19. The regular theological treatises of the time present nothing equal to Hooker, who in part overlapped it, though the Jesuit Parsons has some name for vigorous writing.

  20. Some idea from it might be formed of the geographical mistakes by which one grant overlapped another, or swallowed it up entirely.

  21. It has, indeed, been suggested that the Dynasty of Isin and the First Dynasty of Babylon overlapped each other,[29] as is proved to have been the case with the first three dynasties of the Babylonian List of Kings.

  22. This does not preclude the possibility that the dynasties may have overlapped for a shorter period than ninety-nine years.

  23. By this means platoons became intermingled, while companies overlapped each other, but steadily the onward rush continued.

  24. In breadth it overlapped the path, its presence being skilfully concealed by branches of trees overlaid with broad leaves on which earth had been thrown and lightly pressed so as to give it the appearance of part of the beaten track.

  25. Gray) are overlapped by the radii and by part of the walls; they usually extend only about half way down the compartment (a fig.

  26. These latter overlapped the compartments on both sides of them, as in all the Chthamalinae.

  27. The compartments from the first are surprisingly strong, and have their alae already formed and overlapped by the adjoining compartments; but of the radii there is as yet no trace.

  28. Around the wall on the inner side was hung a canvas curtain that overlapped the floor, and thus protected the lodgers from draught while they were sitting about the fire.

  29. Illustration: Circles of M and P touching, each overlapped by circle of S] These four forms constitute what are known as the moods of the First Figure of the Syllogism.

  30. Illustration: Concentric circles of P and M, M in centre, both overlapped by circle of S] Conclusion O.

  31. Adult female of the normal peg-top shape, the abdomen not so much overlapped as usual.

  32. This should of course be done on both sides of the hut, after which they should be overlapped at the corners with logs eight feet in length.

  33. These pieces are now overlapped by the second row, and with the addition of the large piece which covers them all at the ridge pole, the roof is complete, and will stand a heavy rain with little or no leaking.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overlapped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.