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

Now and then he made little semi-jocose attempts to overleap it, but at the worst a word could curb him where a glance failed.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

It was, however, impossible that Petrarch should overleap at one bound all the barriers of the middle ages.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington