Sentence example with the word 'overlay'

overlay

adorn, cap, cover, eclipse, film, imbrication, mantle, ornament, overload, spread over

Definition n. protective covering consisting

Last update: October 9, 2015


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Deep, which overlay the huge area of the temple, and exposed to view not only the scanty remains of the latest edifice, built after 350 B.C., but the platform of an earlier temple, now known to be that of the 6th century to which Croesus contributed.   [Please select]

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Skins of rare beasts overlay the divans.   [Please select]

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Claudian's ambition was to overlay his story with the gold and jewellery of expression and invention.   [Please select]

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Gold overlay of great thickness is found on everything, boxes, chairs, etc.   [Please select]

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The wall mouldings gradually disappeared under an overlay of pictures, placed close together like the scales of a cuirass.   [Please select]

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Inspector Dunbar perceived that the shadow of the neighboring hostelry overlay this home.   [Please select]

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_--Yellowish-brown with an overlay of grayish anterior to the shoulders; forearm, 42.   [Please select]

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One could not speak aloud, for the spell of mystery overlay everything.   [Please select]

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A gray overlay of beard felts his receded cheek, and you see his heavy eyelids, rounded and horny, move up and down like shutters on the dull beads of his eyes.   [Please select]

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overlavish - overlay - overlaying