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.
• And so there was all sorts of overlapping.
  — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 14 Feb. 2026
• Walk the lawn and overlap each pass slightly to avoid gaps.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2026
• An overlapping full-back who can whip over a hell of a cross.
  — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 26 May 2026
• An overlapping full-back who can whip over a hell of a cross.
  — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
• Once the moon is no longer overlapping with the sun, the eclipse is over.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 2 Oct. 2023
• Click the icon that looks like two overlapping cards with a star on top.
  — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
• Start with their films, of course, where overlapping themes abound.
  — Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 19 Dec. 2025
• This way, your wide-brim, floppy hats won't overlap once put away.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2022
• Those lines have started to overlap.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Apr. 2026
• On good days, fans can watch both teams play, while other times games overlap.
  — Portland Timbers and Thorns Fc, oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2021
• In crunch times, our duties overlap.
  — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2026
• If there are too many users on the system at the same time, the codes can overlap.
  — Mai Vu, The Conversation, 22 Feb. 2022
• The ads showed a nice size portion of fish overlapping the bun.
  — Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2026
• All of these areas start to overlap a little more.
  — Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2025
• Jones’ time on the football team did not overlap with the victims.
  — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 21 Nov. 2022
• In the old days, many of the airlines had overlapping routes.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 July 2024
• Of course, some subjects overlap.
  — Big Think, 28 Jan. 2026
• His drug use overlapped with his early success on screen.
  — Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
• Their time on the long-running series overlapped for years.
  — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
• Place each sprinkler head so that its spray will just overlap the next sprinkler head.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 26 July 2025
• Brush overlapping corner with egg wash (do not egg-wash rest of dough).
  — Joy Cho, Good Housekeeping, 16 June 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
• Their social circles don’t overlap in any way.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• Their family lives overlapped, and had for years.
  — Christopher Tayler, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
• The two films overlap in numerous ways.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 May 2026
• Be sure to overlap the cloth by several inches at each seam.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 16 June 2026
• At a certain point, our careers overlapped.
  — Rem Koolhaas, Artforum, 26 Mar. 2026