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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes he would succeed so well for a flash that it only made the impalpable but stern barrier of personality more definite even while almost seeming to overleap it.

From Beggars on Horseback by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)

The lord of the valley, as he rides about, sets up bounds that none may overleap; ay, and limits that you cannot see.

From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Michelet, Jules