Get to know Overfly better with 5 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like travel or move.
Overfly meaning
- To fly over something.
- To fly too far past something.
Using Overfly
- The main meaning on this page is: To fly over something. | To fly too far past something.
- Useful related words include: pass over, travel, go, move.
- In the example corpus, overfly often appears in combinations such as: to overfly.
Context around Overfly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Overfly
- In this selection, "overfly" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, central, british and hostile stand out and add context to how "overfly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include able to overfly hostile territory and allowed to overfly the entire. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "overfly" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with overfly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Maybe no one in Beijing believed that the Red Zeppelin would be allowed to overfly the entire United States. (19 words)
Additionally, the bombers could use long-range weapons to strike known air defenses, and then overfly them to deliver precision strikes with freefall nuclear bombs. (25 words)
The effective loiter time of incoming Argentine aircraft was low, and they were later compelled to overfly British forces in any attempt to attack the islands. (26 words)
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are also used for much aerial reconnaissance in the 21st century, being able to overfly hostile territory without putting human pilots at risk, as well as being smaller and harder to detect than man-carrying aircraft. (40 words)
Even then, after China realized the balloons were simply high-profile civilian efforts, the Swiss team was ordered to stay on the periphery of the country and expressly forbidden to overfly central China. (33 words)
The effective loiter time of incoming Argentine aircraft was low, and they were later compelled to overfly British forces in any attempt to attack the islands. (26 words)
Example sentences (5)
Even then, after China realized the balloons were simply high-profile civilian efforts, the Swiss team was ordered to stay on the periphery of the country and expressly forbidden to overfly central China.
Maybe no one in Beijing believed that the Red Zeppelin would be allowed to overfly the entire United States.
Additionally, the bombers could use long-range weapons to strike known air defenses, and then overfly them to deliver precision strikes with freefall nuclear bombs.
The effective loiter time of incoming Argentine aircraft was low, and they were later compelled to overfly British forces in any attempt to attack the islands.
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are also used for much aerial reconnaissance in the 21st century, being able to overfly hostile territory without putting human pilots at risk, as well as being smaller and harder to detect than man-carrying aircraft.
Common combinations with overfly
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to overfly 4×