Examples of overtop in a Sentence
a manager whose arrogance was overtopped only by his ineptitude
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That fateful day, the dam collapsed, releasing a torrent of floodwater that swallowed thousands of homes in the area, ripping some off their foundations while leaving others severely damaged, and overtopping the Sanford Dam.
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Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
Because the flooding has been a growing concern for Juneau over the past several years, city officials with federal assistance installed emergency flood barriers along several miles of riverbanks in the areas deemed most at risk for being overtopped.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
In 1941, a huge wave caused by a snow and ice avalanche that fell into Laguna Palcacocha, a glacial lake in the Peruvian Andes, overtopped the moraine dam that had contained the lake for decades.
—Suzanne Oconnell, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2025
The onslaught of water can mean a stream or river overtops its banks, flooding nearby areas.
—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 7 July 2025
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Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
Because the flooding has been a growing concern for Juneau over the past several years, city officials with federal assistance installed emergency flood barriers along several miles of riverbanks in the areas deemed most at risk for being overtopped.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
In 1941, a huge wave caused by a snow and ice avalanche that fell into Laguna Palcacocha, a glacial lake in the Peruvian Andes, overtopped the moraine dam that had contained the lake for decades.
—Suzanne Oconnell, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2025
The onslaught of water can mean a stream or river overtops its banks, flooding nearby areas.
—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 7 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for overtop
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“Overtop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overtop. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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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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