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.
• The dough should overlap in the middle; stretch it gently if needed.
  — Joe Yonan, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Sometimes coupled people want to do different things with their spare time, but where do your interests still overlap?
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2022
• The issues can overlap because the Clippers often have played bench units without a center.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2022
• Furthermore, Stadia sales didn’t seem to overlap with other platforms.
  — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2022
• As their characters’ lives overlap and make room for each other to the tune of twanging country guitars, some decent pairs of chemistry emerge.
  — Caroline Framke, Variety, 4 Oct. 2022
• For a lot of voters — especially younger voters and independents, two groups that overlap a lot — the answer was no.
  — David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• It’s based on the concept of the victim-offender overlap that those at the highest risk of violence are often offenders themselves.
  — Carla Lewandowski, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2024
• The painting depicts a mass of overlapping profiles of faces looking in every direction, with ribbons of orange and yellow over black, white and gray.
  — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2024
• In Boston, fares have fallen by 12% on nonstop routes where the airlines overlap since the alliance went into effect, Mr. Wall told the court.
  — Alison Sider, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• While the two industries don’t seamlessly overlap, climate tech officials are arranging job fairs and training events to entice newly unemployed workers to switch fields.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2022
• The trial overlaps with a similar state trial in Washington regarding the merger that began on Sept. 16.
  — Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 1 Oct. 2024
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024