It is an unseemly thing to see a woman so much as once in all her lifetime to offer to overtop her husband; she ought in everything to be in subjection to him, and to do all she doth, as having her warrant, licence, and authority from him.
The Buddhists, like the priests of some other religions, choose lofty sites for their places of worship, which, as they overtop the earth, seem to raise them nearer to heaven.
The fanatical Aurungzebe could build his mosque, with its minaret so lofty as to overtop all the temples of Paganism; but he could not convert the idolaters.
Some seventy miles from Allahabad stands a city which, to the devout Hindoo, is the most sacred place on earth--one which overtops all others, as the Himalayas overtop all other mountains on the globe.
They are big, because they overtop the other leaves about, and so gain free access to the air and sunshine.
Defn: To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.
If kings presume to overtop the law by which they reign, .
I have never met with the verb in that sense elsewhere, but overtop is evermore the appropriate term in arboriculture.
Long lines of white tents overtop the heaps of pipeclay, which grow higher from day to day.
Many are but 50 feet in height, and there are regular, peaky, and prettily-shaped little mountain ranges, the summits of which overtop the plain but five to ten yards.
True, delay makes for peace, but a peace that is to be a struggle to overtop one another in armaments may be more costly in every sense than sharp and decisive warfare.
This succession of mad frolics and ruthless cruelties should, it would seem, have satisfied even a Caligula, but he managed to overtop them all by a supreme piece of folly, which stands alone among human freaks.
Here he found himself near a large oak, which had rooted itself in the rock crevices, and grew upward so as to overtop the castle hill.
Even of late, when thou hadst rendered thy house vacant for new nuptials, by the death of thy late wife, didst thou not overtop that hideous crime, by a crime more incredible?
But, to rise above that, and overtop the crowd, is given to few.
But to rise beyond that, and overtop the crowd, is given to few.
They were Scotch firs of unusual size, and might justly be said to 'overtop their neighbour' the tower.
But above all, the thoughts of the blessedness and glory of God himself, should overtop all the concernments of the creature with you.
When the pleasure of sinful prosperity and delights doth so far overtop the pleasures of holiness, that you are under trouble and weariness in holy duties, and at ease and merry when you have your sinful delights.
No brushwood grows under them, and they stand apart at regular intervals, not shouldering each other, as in the Atlantic forest, where the trees crowd together, each trying to overtop its neighbour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overtop" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
