How to Use overlap in a Sentence

overlap

verb
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  • Some of your duties overlap his.
  • The roof shingles overlap each other.
  • Baseball season overlaps football season in September.
  • Once the moon is no longer overlapping with the sun, the eclipse is over.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 2 Oct. 2023
  • In the old days, many of the airlines had overlapping routes.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 July 2024
  • Jones’ time on the football team did not overlap with the victims.
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The second meaning of the French word folie overlaps with the English term.
    — James Fenton, The New York Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Though strength doesn’t always equate to size, our list of the strongest breeds tends to overlap with the best large dog breeds.
    — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Fold the sides of the narrow rectangle in, to slightly overlap in the center.
    — Maggie Burch, Southern Living, 24 Jan. 2024
  • On one page from Saar’s Haiti sketchbooks, earth tones overlap a Haitian postage stamp.
    — Catherine G. Wagley, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • And among those, most — 29 — overlapped with public lands.
    — Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
  • The dough should overlap in the middle; stretch it gently if needed.
    — Joe Yonan, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The goal is to brown every inch of the chicken and if the cutlets are overlapping, that can’t happen.
    — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2023
  • This way, your wide-brim, floppy hats won't overlap once put away.
    — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The finger food should be finger, stick, or spear-shaped and the size of an index finger that overlaps the edges of a closed hand.
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 19 July 2024
  • And then there are the Jacks and Rileys and Angels of the world, who live in the magical place where people and dogs overlap.
    — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Never mind that many of those fans overlap — the memes, allegiances, and T-shirts were just too fun.
    — Lindsey Bahr, Fortune, 15 July 2023
  • Hispanics are of any race, so the racial groups and the Hispanic groups do not overlap.
    — Akilah Johnson and Dan Keating, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Safe Streets grants overlap 46% of rural hotspots, but 85% of urban hotspots.
    — USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
  • And bats in Southeast Asia are highly diverse, and tend to have small ranges that don’t overlap.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Brush overlapping corner with egg wash (do not egg-wash rest of dough).
    — Joy Cho, Good Housekeeping, 16 June 2023
  • Hunters and mammoths overlapped by about 1,000 years at the end of the last Ice Age, after which point mammoths went extinct.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 18 Jan. 2024
  • To see Siena through Campana’s eyes is to exist in overlapping worlds.
    — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Line your window or door with double-sided tape to the frame where the plastic will overlap.
    — Belle Duchene, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The brothers played football for the school and shared the field for two years while their educations overlapped.
    — Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 13 Apr. 2024
  • The new bridges will not overlap with the footprints of the existing bridges, officials said.
    — Tonya Alanez, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Add at least two inches to each side of the window to overlap with your adhesive tape.
    — Belle Duchene, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Drag culture overlapped with ballroom, so there was a lot of that as well downtown.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 28 June 2023
  • That variation, called the surface code, is based on two overlapping grids of physical qubits.
    — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
  • There are only a few numbers, but most of them are marvelous constructions with sinewy arrangements and overlapping harmonies that tangle around each other during duets.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024

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