Wondering how to use Overflight in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as flight or flying.
Overflight meaning
The flight of an aircraft over a particular place; used especially to refer to a flight over foreign or enemy territory.
Using Overflight
- The main meaning on this page is: The flight of an aircraft over a particular place; used especially to refer to a flight over foreign or enemy territory.
- Useful related words include: flight, flying.
- In the example corpus, overflight often appears in combinations such as: and overflight, helicopter overflight, overflight on.
Context around Overflight
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Overflight
- In this selection, "overflight" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, helicopter, request, granted, patrols, rights and operations stand out and add context to how "overflight" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include in and overflight above the and afternoon s overflight with no. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "overflight" sits close to words such as abdulkadir, abed and abhay, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with overflight
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Mahalo to Blue Hawaiian Helicopters for the overflight. (8 words)
Photo is from an overflight at mid day. (8 words)
Right: Approximately the same view from a HVO helicopter overflight on Feb. 6, 2024. (14 words)
In this aerial view, taken during HVO’s overflight this morning, you can follow the lava channel from fissure 8 (gas plume visible in far distance) as it wends its way toward Kapoho Crater (lower left), where it then heads south toward the ocean. (44 words)
The Air Force wanted a longer-range version of the A-12 with better sensors that didn’t need to fly directly over hostile territory, particularly as an agreement reached with the Soviet Union that banned territorial overflight. (38 words)
Quad also reaffirmed its steadfast commitment to supporting a free and open Indo-Pacific and strongly supported the peaceful settlement of disputes without resorting to threats or use of force and freedom of navigation and overflight. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Quad also reaffirmed its steadfast commitment to supporting a free and open Indo-Pacific and strongly supported the peaceful settlement of disputes without resorting to threats or use of force and freedom of navigation and overflight.
Washington has challenged Beijing’s expansive territorial claims and regularly deploys warships and fighter jets in what it calls freedom of navigation and overflight patrols that have infuriated China.
Right: Approximately the same view from a HVO helicopter overflight on Feb. 6, 2024.
The airline company was forced to formally request overflight and landing at Argentina's National Civil Aviation Administration and the province of Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica, and the South Atlantic Islands.
More recently, Israel in Sinai to help Egypt. Saudi Arabia granted overflight rights to Air India for planes on the Delhi-Tel Aviv route.
The Air Force wanted a longer-range version of the A-12 with better sensors that didn’t need to fly directly over hostile territory, particularly as an agreement reached with the Soviet Union that banned territorial overflight.
The U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Fla., conducts an overflight to survey the damage from Hurricane Laura near Orange, Texas, on August 27. Photo by PO3 Paige Hause/U.
An additional overflight on Wednesday observed a minor oil sheen in the vicinity of the vessel and the Coast Guard began working with contractors to mitigate the pollution threat.
Duterte and Xi also agreed on the importance of self-restraint and respect for freedom of navigation in – and overflight above – the South China Sea.
Nevertheless, the two sides recognised “the importance of self-restraint and respect for freedom of navigation in –and overflight above – the South China Sea,” he said.
S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Scientists and AffiliatesPuʻu ʻŌʻō on May 3, 2018, as viewed from the helicopter overflight.
During this morning’s HVO overflight, only a small, weak pond of lava was visible in the western portion of the fissure 8 vent.
Even though this would be presented as a temporary measure - a few days, perhaps a week - it would be the end of freedom of navigation and overflight if it went unchallenged.
Fissure 8 and lava channel in the lower East Rift Zone of Kīlauea Volcano during this afternoon’s overflight, with no apparent slowing in the eruption rate.
Hence, it is against the context of Article 58 to consider military surveillance as “internationally lawful use of the sea,” and it should not be considered as exercising the freedom of overflight in the EEZ.
In this aerial view, taken during HVO’s overflight this morning, you can follow the lava channel from fissure 8 (gas plume visible in far distance) as it wends its way toward Kapoho Crater (lower left), where it then heads south toward the ocean.
Mahalo to Blue Hawaiian Helicopters for the overflight.
Photo is from an overflight at mid day.
The bill calls for “regular freedom of navigation and overflight operations in the Indo-Pacific region,” which have been used to challenge illegal Chinese claims in the South China Sea.
The data collected by the overflight will be used for digital elevation models that document summit changes.
Common combinations with overflight
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and overflight 6×
- helicopter overflight 2×
- overflight on 2×
- an overflight 2×
- overflight above 2×
- hvo overflight 2×
- of overflight 2×
- overflight in 2×
- the overflight 2×
- u- overflight 2×