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
• Fold the sides of the narrow rectangle in, to slightly overlap in the center.
  — Maggie Burch, Southern Living, 24 Jan. 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
• 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
• Hunters and mammoths overlapped by about 1,000 years at the end of the last Ice Age, after which point mammoths went extinct.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 18 Jan. 2024
• To see Siena through Campana’s eyes is to exist in overlapping worlds.
  — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
• Drag culture overlapped with ballroom, so there was a lot of that as well downtown.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 28 June 2023
• The four women jump in and out of the conversation, their speech overlapping.
  — Kristina Linnea Garcia, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Apr. 2023
• Do not overlap the crackers and, if necessary, break a few crackers to fill in any gaps.
  — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2024
• Mars says its preliminary findings show none of the farms that have been mapped overlap with the reserve.
  — Taiwo Adebayo, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2023
• Place a layer of potatoes that slightly overlap each other on the bottom of the baking dish.
  — Dan Lindbergand, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2024
• Not only that, but humans and Neanderthals overlapped living in this part of Asia at around the same time.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2023
• Their time at the university overlapped for five years.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
• Grass season is overlapping with trees this year Grass shoots pollen into the air in mid-May, whether the trees have called it a spring already or not.
  — Jack Nimesheim, The Enquirer, 31 May 2023
• Mulroney’s nine years in power overlapped with Bush’s four.
  — Rob Gillies, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024
• Wrap each ring with its own color of leather cording, overlapping the cording where the rings meet.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Oct. 2023
• Any such difference in distance traveled shows up when the second beam overlaps with the first.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Apr. 2023
• To solve the problem, an overlapping splice plate was fashioned to connect this one section on the bulkhead.
  — Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2023
• Yes, at five overlapping stations, per the news release.
  — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2023
• Spread the asparagus out in a single layer (a small amount of overlapping is fine, but do not stack the spears on top of each other).
  — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 26 Mar. 2024
• But how to understand the pileup of body parts and overlapping planes that form a vast triangle at the center of the picture?
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
• Strawberries are in season for only a handful of weeks, none of which overlap with Valentine’s Day in the US.
  — Carly Westerfield, Bon Appétit, 7 Feb. 2024
• Starting at the bottom, glue each strip around the cone, layering upward so each row overlaps the last by about a half-inch.
  — Karen Hugg, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
• Over that course of time, their narratives have rarely ever overlapped.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2023
• She also, of course, overlapped with Luck in Palo Alto.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 May 2024