overleap

Example Sentences

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“But there are more significant hurdles,” she says: hurdles modern medicine hasn’t found a way to consistently overleap quite yet.

From Time • Nov. 30, 2016

"See the carp swim strongly against the rapids and overleap even the waterfall." said Mrs. Saito.

From Time Magazine Archive

Religion has raised a bar which not even the strongest impulses of nature can overleap.

From Time Magazine Archive

When we pass from Chaucer’s age, however, we have to overleap nearly a hundred and eighty years before we alight upon a period presenting anything like an adequate show of literary continuation.

From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by Masson, David

Now the loyal wave rolls up as if it would overleap its barrier, the crest.

From The Battle of Gettysburg by Haskell, Frank Aretas