overhead

Example Sentences

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Construction started late last month on a massive octagon with an open overhead dome and around 5,000 arena seats.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

The buzz in Beirut of Israeli drones overhead, along with the constant din of poorly regulated diesel generators, underscores the government’s weakness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Students pass the hostel on their way to lectures as aeroplanes rumble overhead every few minutes.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

The typhoon was not only reshaping conditions at the ocean's surface but also disturbing layers of the atmosphere many miles overhead.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026

For more than a century, people had come to swim and camp under the firs that towered hundreds of feet overhead.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone