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How to use overlap in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Overlap means to extend over and partly cover something. Example: “The mouse-mat overlapped the edge of the desk.”

Examples of overlap by meaning

verbTo extend over and partly cover something.

  • The mouse-mat overlapped the edge of the desk.

verbTo have an area, range, character or function in common.

  • The two maps overlapped at the east and west edges.
  • Memento unfolds over 22 scenes—or, more accurately, 22 strands of time, the main strand (in color) moving backward in increments, and another strand (in black and white) going forward, though the two overlap profoundly.2012 November 8, Scott Tobias, “Memento’s puzzle structure hides big twists and bigger profundities”, in The AV Club

verbOf sets: to have some elements in common.

  • The set (all men) overlaps the set (vegetarians).

More sentences with overlap

  • Correlated waves interfere to produce interesting patterns, while uncorrelated waves overlap without interfering.From the entry interfere
  • We offer Saturday classes for non-trads and anyone whose work schedule overlaps with our weekday classes.From the entry non-trad
  • There are overlapping coverages on your insurance policies.From the entry coverage
  • The problem is that they didn't allow for the extra centimetre of overlap, so it didn't fit correctly.From the entry allow for
  • The topological charge of families of lattice gauge fields is defined fermionically via families index theory for the overlap Dirac operator.From the entry fermionically
  • Adjacent phytochoria do not usually have a sharp boundary, but rather a soft one, a transitional area in which many species from both regions overlap.From the entry phytochorion
  • This Tuesday and Wednesday, four holidays from different cultures and religions overlap in a rare calendar year.2026 February 16, Alicia Eler, “Lunar New Year, Ramadan and Lent in rare alignment this year. The holidays follow different solar and…. From the entry lent
  • The valley marks the exact location where the latter overlaps the former.2022 February 16, Stephanie Chiang, “Magnitude 4.4 earthquake jolts east Taiwan”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 15 Apr…. From the entry Huadong Valley
  • Recently, this wave of "conspiritualism" has begun to overlap with influencers on social media.2021 March 12, “Professor Ron Purser Interviewed by Salon on ‘Conspirituality’ Influencers”, in San Francisco State University College of…. From the entry conspiritualism
  • I consider, instead, how all these categories actively interact and overlap.2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 119. From the entry parallel
  • The cnoidal wave is also modulationally unstable due to soliton overlapping.2016, E.A. Kuznetsov, “Fermi-Pasta-Ulam recurrence and modulation instability”, in arXiv. From the entry modulationally
  • Omega employs a minimal cost flow analysis on an overlap graph to generate unitigs.2015 August 7, Binbin Lai et al., “InteMAP: Integrated metagenomic assembly pipeline for NGS short reads”, in BMC Bioinformatics, volume…. From the entry unitigs
  • When two pieces of leather have to be overlapped they must be suitably skived.2013, F. Y. Golding, The Manufacture Of Boots And Shoes, →ISBN. From the entry skive
  • A longitudinal review of these purposes reveals three, at times overlapping, goals: Estonianization, civic integration, and Russification.2011, Zvi Bekerman, Thomas Geisen, International Handbook of Migration, Minorities and Education: Understanding Cultural and Social…. From the entry Estonianization
  • Another advantage of our boomless staysail is that it can overlap the mast a bit.2010, Lin and Larry Pardey, The Capable Cruiser: 3rd edition, page 102. From the entry boomless
  • In contrast, dynamic programming applies when the subproblems overlap—that is, when subproblems share subsubproblems.2009, Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Introduction to Algorithms, page 359. From the entry subsubproblem
  • It is not a permanent space: it transitorily colonizes public urban space, overlapping and somehow replacing it.2008, Frank Eckardt, Media and urban space: understanding, investigating and approaching mediacity, page 17. From the entry transitorily
  • The overlapping governance networks of panarchy have facilitated a context conducive to the above competing multilateralisms.2006, W.A. Knight, “Plurilateral Multilateralism: Canada's Emerging International Policy?”, in Andrew F. Cooper, Dane Rowlands, editors…. From the entry panarchy
  • Use the step backward icon again and experiment with the other three icons, drawing overlapping shapes.2005, Deke McClelland, Galen Fott, Photoshop Elements 3 for Dummies. From the entry lather, rinse, repeat
  • The left- and right-hand paths often overlap, and this is sometimes called 'grey' magick.2002, Donna Darkwolf Vos, Dancing under an African moon: Paganism and Wicca in South Africa. From the entry grey magick
  • Manas could coexist and overlap, as they did in the medieval times in Europe.2001 September, Aldo Matteucci, “Language and Diplomacy – A Practitioner's View”, in Jovan Kurbalija, Hannah Slavik, editors, Language and…. From the entry mana
  • The shoulders were protected by pauldrons of lames, overlapping from the bottom up.2000, Harold Leslie Peterson, Arms and Armor in Colonial America, 1526-1783, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 120. From the entry brayette
  • Internal leather straps also fasten the eighteen pteruges, which are arranged in two overlapping rows.1998, Stuart W. Pyhrr, José-A. Godoy, chapter 19, in Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries, The…. From the entry pteruge
  • The forward margin of each dorsolateral phyllidium overlaps the rear margin of the adjacent phyllidium.1982, Arthur Cronquist, Basic Botany, page 278. From the entry phyllidium
  • The slightly smaller hind print may overlap but seldom registers precisely in the front track.1974, Robert Elman, The Hunter's Field Guide to the Game Birds and Animals of North America, →ISBN. From the entry register
  • Join the pieces with overlapping seams and finish off by stitching with the zigzagger attachment.1942, The Chemistry leaflet. From the entry zigzagger
  • I stood where land and sea wrangled ferociously over the overlap.1941, Emily Carr, “Salt Water”, in Klee Wyck, centennial edition, Toronto, Ont.; Vancouver, B.C.: Clarke, Irwin & Company, published 1971…. From the entry wrangle
  • It’s certainly a Venn overlap that is hard to fathom.2020 September 14, Sarah Wilson, “The wellness realm has fallen into conspiritualism – I have a sense why”, in The Guardian. From the entry conspiritualism
  • But in France, where they overlap to some extent with the gilets jaunes movement, collapsologists also consider society to be sick.2020 October 11, Laura Spinney, “‘Humans weren’t always here. We could disappear’: meet the collapsologists”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry collapsologist
  • This overlapping is reflective of hybrid languages, where certain features (phonetic, orthographic, semantic, syntactic) are also difficult to disentangle.2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 10. From the entry orthographic
  • Behaviourally these three paraphilias do share some characteristics and show overlapping of certain features, but psychologically they are diverse.2018 March 2, Sunil M. Doshi, Kalpesh Zanzrukiya, Lavlesh Kumar, “Paraphilic infantilism, diaperism and pedophilia: A review”, in Journal…. From the entry diaperism
  • An overgrown nosebeard, brown hairs overlapping onto his white chinstrap.2017, Benyakir B. Horowitz, Manual Automata, page 118. From the entry nosebeard
  • Strongly dense sublocales, almost discrete spaces, overlap algebras, constructive topology..2016, Francesco Ciraulo, “Overlap Algebras as Almost Discrete Locales”, in arXiv. From the entry sublocales
  • The pFRG partially overlaps in the retrotrapezoid nucleus (RTN), which was originally identified in adult cats and rats.2015 July 6, “A Phox2b BAC Transgenic Rat Line Useful for Understanding Respiratory Rhythm Generator Neural Circuitry”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry retrotrapezoid
  • One sample, W52 (fabric group 3), separates out from the other sherds, which overlap with a considerable amount of intrasample variation.2015 September 3, “Earliest Pottery on New Guinea Mainland Reveals Austronesian Influences in Highland Environments 3000 Years Ago”, in…. From the entry intrasample
  • The steel tonlets are rigid, not overlapping and movable.2013, Wolfgang Bruhn, Max Tilke, A Pictorial History of Costume From Ancient Times to the Nineteenth Century: With Over 1900 Illustrated…. From the entry tonlet

Meaning of overlap

  1. verb To extend over and partly cover something.
  2. verb To co-occur, to happen at the same time.
  3. verb To have an area, range, character or function in common.

Full definition of overlap

Questions about overlap in a sentence

How do you use overlap in a sentence?
Overlap is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The mouse-mat overlapped the edge of the desk.”
What is a short sentence with overlap?
“The mouse-mat overlapped the edge of the desk.”
What does overlap mean?
Overlap means to extend over and partly cover something.

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