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Example sentences for "overlaps"

Lexicographically close words:
overlain; overland; overlap; overlapped; overlapping; overlay; overlaying; overlays; overleaning; overleap
  1. When the vessel has passed the insertion of the coraco-brachialis, it becomes situated at the inner side of the biceps, which also partly overlaps it, as it now lies on the forepart of the brachialis anticus.

  2. For pasted backs, stout wrappers are taken, and the strips are cut so that each one slightly overlaps in width the one preceding.

  3. The gold slightly overlaps on to the inner boards.

  4. In this one continues, preparing the edge for each fresh strip and laying on each strip so that it slightly overlaps the other until the whole length is covered with gold.

  5. The Basque overlaps them at one end, and the Provencal at the other.

  6. The province of Burgos overlaps the plateau, and in its northern and southern extremities embraces the valleys both of the Ebro and the Douro, with their respective towns, Miranda del Ebro and Aranda del Douro.

  7. They will, in the spirit of Daniel or Nehemiah, make themselves one with the guilty nation.

  8. The coat of skin, the work of God Himself, has made them so.

  9. Strength of creaturehood was to be tried.

  10. Steam Engine) Defn: The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port.

  11. That part of the hilt, in certain kinds of swords, which overlaps the scabbard.

  12. The classic era overlaps the rise and growth of the "Romantic Movement," for the highest attainments of Beethoven, Auber and Rossini were not reached until after Spohr and Weber had already entered the lists.

  13. The career of Beethoven, extending well into the nineteenth century, overlaps the rise and growth of the Romantic Movement,--a movement that embodied tendencies with which his later works show sympathetic accord.

  14. The elder-leaved mountain ash overlaps the first species, and is even more daring as a climber.

  15. One spray overlaps another, and leaves varying in size fit in to fill every little corner to which sunlight comes.

  16. It is only in the autumn of 1517 that the plague overlaps somewhat on the sweat, and even then it becomes noticeable mostly in the winter following the decline of the sweat.

  17. Posteriorly, the nasal overlaps the sphenethmoid and articulates with the palatine.

  18. Posteriorly, the nasal overlaps the sphenethmoid; posterolaterally the nasal articulates with the palatine.

  19. The door is merely two flaps, one of which overlaps the other, secured by another stone.

  20. Take care also that as you go forward each sheet overlaps that which is behind; but as you work aft, insert the front edge under the one before it.

  21. We have already said that the favourite place for the death shot is behind the lobe of the ear, just where it overlaps the shoulder, but if the shot can penetrate about 1ft.

  22. Open and paste one end so that it overlaps the other, the cuts running vertically.

  23. Roll so that one edge overlaps the other a trifle, simulating the trunk of a tree.

  24. Place these so that one edge overlaps the other and the holes coincide with one another.

  25. Place remaining flaps so that one overlaps the other a trifle, as shown in the illustration.

  26. Its lower edge overlaps the base of the mandible, and encloses the extensor mandibulæ.

  27. They reach to the fifth segment of the abdomen, and one wing-cover overlaps the other.

  28. The flesh here becomes red, tender, painful, and swollen so that it overlaps the nail.

  29. Each strip or garter overlaps the one below about one-third of an inch, and the whole limb is thus incased in plaster from five inches below the knee to a point about four inches above the joint.

  30. The hard rubber cover overlaps the flanged top of the jar, to which it is sealed with special compound.

  31. The cover overlaps the top of the jar to which it is sealed with sealing compound.

  32. At the most they give us mere negative facts, worthless against an extent of evidence which now overlaps the widest range of doubt, and doubles upon itself in the redundancy of superfluous demonstration.

  33. Nor is the difference in the extent to which the cerebral overlaps the cerebellar cavity less singular.

  34. A structure which overlaps the mouth of certain insects.

  35. On the side towards the radius, on the lower end of the shaft there is an angular ridge, which marks the line along which the ulna overlaps the radius.

  36. The outer surface of the end of the first bone of the wing finger overlaps the wing metacarpal, so that a maximum of strength and resistance is provided in the bony structures by which the wing is supported.

  37. On the right-hand they are united into a transverse bar which overlaps the front of pelvis seen from the under side] There are three modifications of the Ornithosaurian pelvis.

  38. The outgrowth from the Wolffian duct grows forwards, and extends along the outer side of a mass of mesoblastic tissue which lies mainly behind, but somewhat overlaps the dorsal aspect of the Wolffian body.

  39. In front it overlaps the paired suprarenal bodies, but does not unite with them.

  40. The ventral ischiatic tubercle is the angle formed by the ventrally projecting ischium at the point (near its midlength) where the ischium overlaps and lies lateral to (and fused to) the pubis.

  41. The flat tendon narrows, overlaps the anteroproximal corner of insertion of M.

  42. The superficial layer attaches fleshily to the ventral part of the anterior surface of the patella and to the medial half of the superficial surface of the patellar tendon; this layer slightly overlaps the distal fleshy end of M.

  43. In one leg, the lateral edge of pars interna overlaps the proximomedial edge of M.

  44. Its lovely eastern ally the azure tit (Parus cyaneus) overlaps the range of P.

  45. Salween river, though it overlaps it in some places.

  46. As soon as the key is released, the piece of horn, regaining its natural bent by its own elasticity, pulls the slider out so that the perforation of the slider overlaps and the pipe is silenced.

  47. In most birds the feet of the coracoids do not touch each other; in some groups they meet, in others one overlaps the other, the right lying ventrally upon the left.

  48. The most anterior part of the ilium often overlaps one or more short lumbar ribs and fuses with them, or even a long, complete thoracic rib.

  49. In the present overlap the left hand takes the first grip of the club, and the right hand overlaps it, and in so doing is taken, to a very great extent, off the shaft of the club.

  50. In northeastern South America the range of the Atlantic bottlenosed dolphin apparently overlaps with that of the Guiana dolphin, which, except for size, it closely resembles (see p.

  51. The range of True's beaked whales overlaps with that of the Antillean beaked whale but is more northerly.


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