How to Use overland in a Sentence

overland

1 of 2 adverb

• We traveled overland by horse to the mountains.
• For those arriving overland or by sea, the fee is half that at 150 Baht.
  — Johanna Read, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• Then they are smuggled overland to Jordan and Lebanon, where some leave via Beirut’s air and seaports.
  — New York Times, 5 Dec. 2021
• Egypt hopes to buy more Ukrainian grain shipped overland across Europe.
  — Ian Bremmer, Time, 27 July 2023
• The exhausted Greek troops were marched overland back to the capital.
  — National Geographic, 6 Feb. 2020
• Volunteers retrieved the sleds and transported the dog teams overland to Nome.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Mar. 2021
• This made the boats flexible and light enough for smaller ones to be transported overland.
  — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
• It is etched in the fearful faces of young recruits lining up at the airport for flights to Moscow, and from there overland to Rostov-on-Don and into Ukraine.
  — Roger Cohen Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
• Many more people have since left overland for neighboring countries in hopes of traveling on to the West.
  — NBC News, 18 Nov. 2021
• Over a 12-month period this water would be pumped to the surface, piped overland and sent underground into the burn area.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Dec. 2022
• Others believe the Welsh stones were loaded on to sleds and dragged overland, perhaps as a public display meant to impress.
  — National Geographic, 12 Nov. 2020
• After landing in Nicaragua, the Cuban migrants travel overland to the southern border.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
• Some modern fish can move overland by pushing their bodies up with their fins and flopping forward.
  — National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2020
• Forced to abandon their vehicle and run overland for nearly a mile, the Hylands were severely burned.
  — Michelle Nijhuis, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2020
• Its founder, Henderson Lewelling, brought his fruit trees and his family overland by oxcart from Iowa.
  — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
• Born into a Polish shtetl in 1886 and trained as a tailor, the young man traveled overland across the European continent at the turn of the century, hoping to escape the pogroms of the old world for the promise of the new.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 25 Nov. 2021
• These supplies and tens of thousands of volunteers have continued to flow overland lately through the border with Poland, with the western city of Lviv serving as a supply hub.
  — Brett Forrest and Alan Cullison, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2022
• Those visitors now often spend a chunk of their day traveling overland to the park as part of a cruise package, especially from Anchorage, more than five hours away by bus and longer by train.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2022
• The 14 drones were being shipped overland through Kazakhstan when they were flagged by customs officials for lacking the proper export paperwork.
  — Joby Warrick, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
• Wednesday, Basham said that in those neighborhoods there is no stormwater conveyance system, so the water goes overland instead of into sewers.
  — Mike Danahey, Elgin Courier-News, 10 Aug. 2017
• Geography dictates that anybody traveling overland from South America has to pass through it to reach the United States.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2021
• The connection with southern Europe suggests that this exchange involved travel along the Atlantic coast, rather than travelers making their way overland across the Alps.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2022
• Shipments of Western arms have continued with convoys bringing them in overland across Ukraine’s western borders.
  — Brett Forrest and Alan Cullison, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2022
• Discoveries at both sites reflect the field's growing focus on the likelihood that the first humans to explore North America came not overland but via a maritime Kelp Highway.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2018
• Many of the amorous amphibians, traveling overland to annual mating ponds, are captured by a student volunteer prior to the event, though quick-handed kids nabbed tiny spring peepers throughout the evening.
  — cleveland, 2 Apr. 2021
• Attempts to reroute the supplies overland would be expensive and extremely difficult, in part, because Ukrainian railway carriages would have to be refitted to work in other parts of Europe.
  — Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022
• Iran is towing a giant attack submarine overland by truck, reportedly from a shipyard back to the sprawling Iranian naval base of Bandar Abbas.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 July 2020
• After Russia imposed a stranglehold on Ukraine’s southern ports early in the war, officials shifted some of their exports to ports on the river — a less-than-ideal alternative, as the shipments still must travel overland.
  — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
• The isolation lasted into the Early Cretaceous, after which the seaway shrank, allowing for migration overland once more.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2018
• And for people fleeing wars, persecution or natural disasters must attempt long, treacherous journeys across the sea or overland through the Balkans to seek asylum in Europe.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 15 June 2023

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overland

2 of 2 adjective

• Together, the three of them made the overland trip and crossed the Darién Gap.
  — Joe Penney, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2021
• An overland trek in April, in an attempt to trap beavers, nearly did them in.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Jan. 2022
• And drought and famine caused the Fatimid ruler to cancel overland Hajj routes in A.D. 1048.
  — Ken Chitwood, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2020
• The sea route to the gold fields had several advantages over the overland route, but food was not one of them.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Nov. 2021
• Many have turned to a treacherous overland route: the Darién Gap.
  — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• Outdoorsy is like Airbnb for RVs, trailers, overland trucks, and vans.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 25 Nov. 2020
• The project would also require overland travel along the project right-of-way, along the access roads and in work areas.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2023
• The overland route to the southern peninsula is beset by gangs.
  — Chris Kenning, The Courier-Journal, 20 Aug. 2021
• How that success transfers to this fall’s overland races remains to be seen.
  — Joe Magill, cleveland, 22 Aug. 2022
• The Alloccos went to the grocery store and stocked up on salami, cheese, and water for the overland journey.
  — Joshuah Bearman, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2021
• At one point this year, an overland exit into Pakistan was to take place over two days.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022
• During that winter, Hendrik went on an overland trip with the ship’s astronomer, who succumbed to the cold.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2021
• Thule started with roof racks and boxes, then in 2018 acquired Tepui rooftop tents, and with it, tremendous access to the overland crowd.
  — Jason Sakurai, Outside Online, 7 Apr. 2021
• The plane’s economics were challenging, and its sonic booms led it to be banned on many overland routes.
  — Ben Finley, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2023
• At the time, an overland route into the North American continent from the Bering Strait would have been blocked by massive ice sheets.
  — Bymike Price, science.org, 23 Dec. 2022
• For the overland enthusiast who wants a truly full-featured camper that won’t hold them back off road, the SkinnyGuy is hard to beat.
  — Bryan Rogala, Outside Online, 27 May 2022
• Their overland trip from Maracaibo, Venezuela, took 52 days.
  — Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
• Charles I, the young Spanish king, no longer was willing to rely on overland trade routes for the cloves and nutmeg so coveted in Europe.
  — National Geographic, 11 Aug. 2022
• An Oglala mule brought Jack into a summer camp bustling with Lakotas, fur traders and overland travelers in 1846.
  — Jon T. Coleman, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2020
• The trail was gone, swamped by water, so on Friday morning trail breakers on snowmachines tried to lead the group to Golovin on an overland trail buried by five feet of snow.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2020
• Like opting for longer and more sporadic overland journeys instead of shorter trips with long-haul flights?
  — Kate Siber, Outside Online, 8 Mar. 2023
• That’s why the overland community has turned to fridges for extended trips.
  — Outside Online, 5 July 2022
• This force could be landed in support of an overland invasion.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2022
• The Endurance was meant to deliver Shackleton and his team to the southern coast of the Weddell Sea for the overland expedition.
  — Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2022
• Supersonic overland flight has been banned for decades due to the noise produced when aircraft break the sound barrier.
  — Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 30 Aug. 2023
• In general, if it can be hunted on public land, that’s a good target species for an overland hunting trip.
  — Outdoor Life, 15 June 2020
• Known for peace and prosperity, this dynasty also saw the extension of overland trade with Syria and Rome via the Silk Road.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2022
• Those who survive the overland route seem to be granted more mercy, and continue northward.
  — Adam Yamaguchi, CBS News, 9 Oct. 2017
• But there are structural problems with this, like the fact that highways carry more overland cargo than people.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 Jan. 2021
• Moscow wants an additional overland route to Turkey, a major trade partner—and one that has not joined Western sanctions during the Ukraine war.
  — Olesya Vartanyan, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2023

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