overpass

Early on, the braking mechanism was harsh and the trucks sometimes unexpectedly stopped when approaching an overpass.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

The video shows a spray of debris flying as the truck struck the overpass, tipped over, and skidded on its side.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Seated on the overpass on a swelteringly hot day, the 32-year-old said he picked his particular strip of sidewalk for the shade it gets from the elevated 110 Freeway carpool lane.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

In October 2022, a rare protest at a highway overpass in Beijing prompted authorities to post security officials at dozens of city overpasses, particularly ahead of notable political events and anniversaries—a practice that continues today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

We seem to be on some sort of long freeway overpass, like a bridge above the city.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

Since 2008, the authority has spent about $15 billion purchasing thousands of land parcels and building giant overpasses, rail beds, walls and other concrete structures that now loom over California’s Central Valley.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

They seek shelter in tents, bushes and overpasses in a city that has struggled with one of the worst housing crises in the country.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

Bass and Raman also debated the merits of a city law that prohibits homeless encampments near schools, daycare centers and “sensitive” locations, such as libraries and freeway overpasses.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

Parallel to the tramway, much of Alexandria's iconic corniche is now hidden behind overpasses, private businesses and beachside food courts.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

This complex and exceedingly efficient government operation was completed while residents of New Orleans were trapped in attics and begging for rescue from rooftops and highway overpasses.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

"We could do a better job of getting pucks through. Maybe even shooting a little bit more. I think we overpassed at times."

From Fox News ● Mar. 3, 2022

They overpassed on some possessions, turning down layups and shooting 3’s instead.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2021

The Coyotes made it a two-goal lead 11:57 into the second period when the Capitals’ fourth line overpassed on an odd-man rush, leading to a turnover.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2018

“I thought we overpassed the puck early in the game for sure,” Pittsburgh coach Mike Johnston said.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 21, 2015

The rudimental conceptions have been distanced; the original limitations have been overpassed.

From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Octavius Brooks Frothingham

The bloom whose petals, nipt before they blew, died in the promise of the fruit, is waste; the broken lily lies—the storm is overpast.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams

I lay in all the prostration of a bruised and subdued spirit, praying fervently and loudly unto God that He might be pleased to cover me with his hand till his wrath was overpast.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Alexander Leighton

Keep him there—keep him there, till the danger is overpast!

From The Great Miss Driver by Anthony Hope

How art thou every year more beautiful, Younger for all the winters thou hast cast: And I, for all my love grows, grow more dull, Decaying with each season overpast!

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges

The ten miles of road were overpast, the carriage left, the mountain climbed.

From Frondes Agrestes Readings in 'Modern Painters' by John Ruskin

And could stand to shoot the puck more rather than overpassing.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2022

“We’re actually probably overpassing laterally and sending pucks quickly through the slot that needed to just be put softly on net and make it chaos and a huge mess in front,” Johnson said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2022

Spooked, their forwards started overpassing whenever they got deep into the Capitals’ zone.

From New York Times ● May 13, 2013

One bridge spans the Pacific from the State of Washington to Siberia, overpassing the island of Sakhalin en route.

From Time Magazine Archive

The eye of Intelligence is yet more exalted; for overpassing the sphere of the universal, it will behold absolute form itself by the pure force of the mind's vision.

From The Consolation of Philosophy by H. R. (Henry Rosher) James