How to Use overflight in a Sentence

overflight

noun

• De Aquino has gotten to go along on overflights of the crater, the first time terrified.
  — MarÍa Verza, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2023
• And the right of a country to operate on the high seas includes the freedom of overflight.
  — Ashley S. Deeks, The Conversation, 15 Mar. 2023
• The deal will also grant overflight rights and direct flights to and from Israel.
  — Morgan Phillips, Fox News, 10 Dec. 2020
• An overflight of the volcano shows a small new crater formed by the explosion on January 8.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 13 Jan. 2016
• Were the B-52s there for freedom of navigation and overflight?
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 6 June 2018
• But the message in the overflight is clear: Russia is more than capable of locating U.S. forces, even in the arctic.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 Mar. 2020
• The helos conducted an overflight w/ @GovRonDeSantis & placed two pumps to help lower the water level enough to repair the leak.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2021
• The Defense Department declined to comment about the overflight of the carrier strike group.
  — Evan Hill, Cate Cadell, Ellen Nakashima and Christian Shepherd, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Apr. 2023
• Harvey Stockman was the pilot and Soviet radar had tracked that first overflight.
  — CBS News, 17 June 2020
• In Oman, the sultanate allows thousands of overflights and hundreds of landings a year, while also granting access to ports and its bases.
  — Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2020
• Fat Albert is the unsung star of the team’s air show act, kicking it off with a low-altitude overflight and some fancy maneuvers of its own.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2020
• An overflight of Pu'u O'o (below) shows the pit where the activity once was and not much happening beyond some steaming ground.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2018
• That case prompted the start of federal overflights during the Copper River opener, Charles said.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2023
• The Chinese government has said the craft was never intended for an overflight of Montana but was pushed off course by westerly winds.
  — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2023
• Officials did not say how China reacted to the overflights, and American officials said that the claims were false.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 14 Feb. 2023
• Agency staffers spotted the sea lions during an overflight of the fishing grounds at the mouth of the river, Charles said, and determined the animals had been shot, and no attempts had been made to salvage any meat.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2023
• Aircraft do not have an analogous right to overflight of the territorial sea.
  — Jill Goldenziel, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• Tension between Russian and US troops is not uncommon in Syria as both countries conduct patrols on the ground as well as overflights.
  — Bassem Mroue, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
• On the one hand, Russia will no longer be able to fly over America, while still being subject to overflight from any one of America’s numerous friends in Europe.
  — The Economist, 21 May 2020
• The only other time a Chinese balloon has flown over the continental U.S. was during a brief overflight of Florida.
  — CBS News, 3 Feb. 2023
• Israeli airlines have been barred from skies above most other Mideast states for decades, while wars in Syria and Yemen mean overflights there are too risky, according to regulators.
  — Layan Odeh, Bloomberg.com, 21 July 2019
• Kyiv still possesses enough longer-range air-defenses to deny its deep air space to direct overflight by Russian aircraft.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 1 June 2022
• Government photos from a helicopter overflight showed what appeared to be white smoke rising from one building.
  — Washington Post, 6 June 2017
• The kingdom dipped a toe in the water by granting overflight rights to Israel and, most recently, allowing an Israeli racing team to participate in the Dakar Rally.
  — Jared Kushner, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2021
• An overflight with infrared capabilities indicated that the spray plume did not spread beyond the drilling pad, according to the Alaska DEC.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 16 Apr. 2017
• The overflight had intelligence value to the U.S. by allowing officials to study and scrutinize the balloon and its equipment along the way, a defense official said.
  — Christian Hall, al, 5 Feb. 2023
• Missile defense is part of the response, along with more naval exercises in the Black Sea and more consistent overflights by reconnaissance aircraft.
  — Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 31 May 2016
• The talk behind the scenes is now of nonbelligerency agreements, open economic and business ties, overflights and visits of trade delegations between the Gulf states and Israel.
  — Jonathan Spyer, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2020
• To map the resources, workers will use an airborne electromagnetic survey, known as overflights.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 5 May 2023
• They are required to avoid the Kilauea area itself because of concerns about ash and a potential explosion, but the lava overflights give passengers an eagle's eye view of the destruction and birth of new land.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 16 May 2018

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024