How to Use overlap in a Sentence

overlap

verb

• Some of your duties overlap his.
• The roof shingles overlap each other.
• Baseball season overlaps football season in September.
• Once the moon is no longer overlapping with the sun, the eclipse is over.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 2 Oct. 2023
• In the old days, many of the airlines had overlapping routes.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 July 2024
• Jones’ time on the football team did not overlap with the victims.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 21 Nov. 2022
• The second meaning of the French word folie overlaps with the English term.
  — James Fenton, The New York Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2023
• Though strength doesn’t always equate to size, our list of the strongest breeds tends to overlap with the best large dog breeds.
  — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 16 Aug. 2022
• Fold the sides of the narrow rectangle in, to slightly overlap in the center.
  — Maggie Burch, Southern Living, 24 Jan. 2024
• On one page from Saar’s Haiti sketchbooks, earth tones overlap a Haitian postage stamp.
  — Catherine G. Wagley, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
• And among those, most — 29 — overlapped with public lands.
  — Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
• The dough should overlap in the middle; stretch it gently if needed.
  — Joe Yonan, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022
• The goal is to brown every inch of the chicken and if the cutlets are overlapping, that can’t happen.
  — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2023
• This way, your wide-brim, floppy hats won't overlap once put away.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2022
• The finger food should be finger, stick, or spear-shaped and the size of an index finger that overlaps the edges of a closed hand.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 19 July 2024
• And then there are the Jacks and Rileys and Angels of the world, who live in the magical place where people and dogs overlap.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2022
• Never mind that many of those fans overlap — the memes, allegiances, and T-shirts were just too fun.
  — Lindsey Bahr, Fortune, 15 July 2023
• Hispanics are of any race, so the racial groups and the Hispanic groups do not overlap.
  — Akilah Johnson and Dan Keating, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2022
• Safe Streets grants overlap 46% of rural hotspots, but 85% of urban hotspots.
  — USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
• Brush overlapping corner with egg wash (do not egg-wash rest of dough).
  — Joy Cho, Good Housekeeping, 16 June 2023
• Hunters and mammoths overlapped by about 1,000 years at the end of the last Ice Age, after which point mammoths went extinct.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 18 Jan. 2024
• To see Siena through Campana’s eyes is to exist in overlapping worlds.
  — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
• Line your window or door with double-sided tape to the frame where the plastic will overlap.
  — Belle Duchene, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Nov. 2022
• The brothers played football for the school and shared the field for two years while their educations overlapped.
  — Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 13 Apr. 2024
• The new bridges will not overlap with the footprints of the existing bridges, officials said.
  — Tonya Alanez, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
• Add at least two inches to each side of the window to overlap with your adhesive tape.
  — Belle Duchene, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Nov. 2022
• Drag culture overlapped with ballroom, so there was a lot of that as well downtown.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 28 June 2023
• The four women jump in and out of the conversation, their speech overlapping.
  — Kristina Linnea Garcia, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Apr. 2023
• That variation, called the surface code, is based on two overlapping grids of physical qubits.
  — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
• When that was at last remedied, this novel transported me into a richly human world of overlapping stories both heartbreaking and heart-lifting.
  — The Week Us, theweek, 3 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024