Sentence example with the word 'overtop'

overtop

Definition v. look down on

Last update: July 19, 2015


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They are of colossal height, for they overtop Him who is seated on the high throne; and with a voice that shakes the thresholds they proclaim the Trisagion, like the four "living creatures" (cf.   [Please select]

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These were larger than the first, and overtopped the castle walls.   [Please select]

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Then she bent forward slowly, as she overtopped a huge billow.   [Please select]

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She had begun it soon after her head overtopped mine in my eternal wheelbarrow.   [Please select]

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The Beeches went on growing, and at last quite overtopped the Little Oak.   [Please select]

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But neither the sound of her cries nor the noise of the deadly struggle could overtop the clatter of the express train.   [Please select]

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A stone wall, overtopped by rusty cedars, ran at right angles with the road.   [Please select]

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Thus they all converged again and met on a neighbouring knoll that overtopped a terrific precipice which over hung a small lake.   [Please select]

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Its crest is covered with lofty trees, which overtop the surrounding forest.   [Please select]

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Timmendiquas and his companions advanced slowly toward the chiefs, and the Wyandot overtopped all the Iroquois.   [Please select]

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Cavaliers would have it, the ladies and gentlemen, like Sam's condescension at his wedding-feast, overtopped the mark; but it was erring on the safe side.   [Please select]

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