How to Use overpass in a Sentence

overpass

noun

• Traffic was stalled on the overpass.
• Boys stood beneath the highway overpass.
• The overpass near her home had four tents on the north side and three on the south.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• Leaves are swirling beneath the overpass, with no trees in sight.
  — Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• The day after the rainstorm, the numbers below the overpass had swelled.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
• In video Katz took on the overpass, she can be heard arguing with the men.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• The overpass connects Zhengzhou with the city of Xinxiang.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 28 Dec. 2022
• Local traffic will still be allowed on James Street to the north and south of the overpass.
  — Tony Holt, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2023
• Estevez was ejected and fell 110 feet from the overpass to the brush below.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2023
• The overpass was still open to traffic, as were all the inbound lanes of the Glenn Highway, police said.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 29 Sep. 2022
• That’s when the load clipped the overpass, damaging a girder, as the truck passed beneath it.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Oct. 2022
• The crash left a portion of the driver’s side of the trailer hanging off of the bridge, which serves as an overpass to the road below.
  — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 16 Jan. 2024
• The clip cuts off before the truck reached another overpass.
  — Jason Hahn, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2022
• For unknown reasons, the SUV swerved off the road around 10:25 a.m. and crashed into a freeway overpass wall.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
• The new overpass replaces the original structure that was built in 1955.
  — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 1 Feb. 2023
• On one side of the broken overpass, workers are assembling the new bridge.
  — Linda Kinstler, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2022
• Another car then drove close by, and the man fell from the overpass, Korando added.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Dec. 2022
• The southbound car veered to the right, crashed off the overpass at East Naples Street and landed on the roadway below, the agency reported.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2024
• Now equipped with the playbook from the previous project, Newkirk said planning for the Highway 101 wildlife overpass will be much smoother.
  — Vanessa Arredondo, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
• Officials have been referring to the overpass as a bridge.
  — Jay Blackman, NBC News, 12 June 2023
• Guests with floor seats must enter via Gate J on the east side of the stadium just under the overpass of Seventh Street.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 14 Nov. 2022
• The state began construction on the project, which is the world’s largest wildlife overpass, in April and is expected to finish as soon as 2024.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2022
• Video from a bystander captured some of the chaos as deputies took cover on the overpass ahead, and shot after shot after shot could be heard.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• Officials shared a photo of the Yarmouth Lumber Inc. truck wedged under the overpass.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2023
• The vehicle was against the bridge under the Interstate 65 overpass.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 28 May 2023
• Just after his 29th birthday, Michael Bartlett drove to an overpass, pulled his car over, climbed up on the concrete wall, and jumped 85 feet to the pavement below.
  — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2023
• Earlier in the week, Shapiro said fully restoring the overpass would likely take months.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 15 June 2023
• For 20 years, the National Park Service researched the exact spot where the freeway overpass should go.
  — Martha Shade, CNN, 8 Oct. 2023
• The overpass was damaged when a semi hauling modular units to the North Slope passed under it, striking part of the structure with the load.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Nov. 2022
• Rescue workers pulled a body from the wreckage of the tanker truck fire beneath the I-95 overpass in Philadelphia.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 13 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024