Sentence example with the word 'overlies'

overlies

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The older formation of the Quaternary period is the Lafayette (also called "Orange-sand" or "stratified drift"), which immediately overlies all the Cretaceous groups except the prairies of the Selma chalk, and all the Tertiary except the Porters Creek and Vicksburg formations and parts of the Jackson.   [Please select]

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In the dog the occipital muscle occupies the superior part of the head; it overlies the temporal muscle.   [Please select]

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The posterior half of the dentary overlies the fused surangular-prearticular part of the articular.   [Please select]

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The plateau of pitch now widened out, and the whole ground looked like an asphalt pavement, half overgrown with marsh-loving weeds, whose roots feed in the sloppy water which overlies the pitch.   [Please select]

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