Examples of overtop in a Sentence
a manager whose arrogance was overtopped only by his ineptitude
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The Bellaire Dam received a $500,000 grant in 2024 from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy's Dam Risk Reduction program to study the dam and design a fix for previous work that found the dam would overtop its banks during a 100-year rain event.
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Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 14 Apr. 2026
Hundreds of people have been rescued as severe flooding batters Hawaii’s Oahu island, prompting evacuation orders near a dam officials feared could overtop as water levels rose.
—Ritu Prasad, CNN Money, 20 Mar. 2026
Workers began clearing debris and mud at first light from a catchment area where material had overtopped concrete barriers along the northbound shoulder.
—Bay City News Service, Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2026
No stepping off the sidewalk into a puddle of slush that overtops your work shoes, soaking your socks for the rest of the day.
—Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 13 Feb. 2026
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Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 14 Apr. 2026
Hundreds of people have been rescued as severe flooding batters Hawaii’s Oahu island, prompting evacuation orders near a dam officials feared could overtop as water levels rose.
—Ritu Prasad, CNN Money, 20 Mar. 2026
Workers began clearing debris and mud at first light from a catchment area where material had overtopped concrete barriers along the northbound shoulder.
—Bay City News Service, Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2026
No stepping off the sidewalk into a puddle of slush that overtops your work shoes, soaking your socks for the rest of the day.
—Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 13 Feb. 2026
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“Overtop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overtop. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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overtop
verb
over·top
ˌō-vər-ˈtäp 
1
: to rise above the top of : go beyond in height
overtopped my cousin by 3 inches
2
: surpass
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