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
• At the end, turn back ½-inch of ribbon to overlap the start of the ribbon and pin.
  — Sonja Carmon, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Apr. 2021
• If there are too many users on the system at the same time, the codes can overlap.
  — Mai Vu, The Conversation, 22 Feb. 2022
• Fold the ends of the nori up over the Spam, and overlap them so that the wet end seals the ends together.
  — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2021
• Fold the top half of the parchment paper over the fish and overlap small folds along the open edge to seal.
  — Darlene Zimmerman, Detroit Free Press, 4 Apr. 2021
• In the old days, many of the airlines had overlapping routes.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 July 2024
• Most years, the race has occurred in the summer, but this year was the first time the race would overlap with the school year.
  — Devin Kelly, Longreads, 19 Jan. 2022
• Lay the piece flat and fold each lengthwise, side in, so the edge is past the center and sides overlap.
  — Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Aug. 2021
• Jones’ time on the football team did not overlap with the victims.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 21 Nov. 2022
• The Mets’ cold streak has overlapped with an extreme heat wave in New York.
  — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 25 June 2025
• The second meaning of the French word folie overlaps with the English term.
  — James Fenton, The New York Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2023
• Trim the end of the welting and overlap fabric to cover the end as needed.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Jan. 2021
• 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
• Work from the top of the mirror to the bottom, using straight, overlapping lines.
  — Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 May 2025
• 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
• On good days, fans can watch both teams play, while other times games overlap.
  — Portland Timbers and Thorns Fc, oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2021
• This way, your wide-brim, floppy hats won't overlap once put away.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2022
• Place each sprinkler head so that its spray will just overlap the next sprinkler head.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 26 July 2025
• 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
• If the tails of each end wrap all the way around your book and overlap even a little bit, your entire book is enclosed.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2020
• Never mind that many of those fans overlap — the memes, allegiances, and T-shirts were just too fun.
  — Lindsey Bahr, Fortune, 15 July 2023
• The overlapping steel wall sheets are waterproof and have slatted vertical lines that make for another sleek touch.
  — Clint Davis, People.com, 17 July 2025