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View definitions for overhead

overhead

adjective as in up above

Strongest matches

Strong match

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adverb as in up above

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Strong matches

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noun as in general, continuing costs of operation

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Example Sentences

Twin buglers played “Taps” and three police helicopters flew overhead in the missing-man formation.

But they have high fixed costs—overhead, maintenance, staff, and power.

A Molotov cocktail tumbled in an arc overhead and erupted briefly in a blaze.

U.S. warplanes roaring overhead unleashed missiles and precision-guided bombs, but they could do nothing to solve this problem.

Bulbs strung among branches in the overhead wild hibiscus tree form a radiant canopy.

Out of the darkening sky rang the twanging call of a night-hawk, and the cluck of a dozing hen sounded from the foliage overhead.

The gigantic pylon, its shoulders breaking the sky four-square far overhead, seemed the prodigious portal of another world.

The long dry fingers of the palm trees rattled overhead, and looking up, he saw the divine light of the starry heavens.

Coming to a gate of red stone, Yung Pak asked the meaning of the carved arrow in the arch overhead.

And the lead wire from the aerials, well grounded, was brought directly in from overhead and connected with the radio set.

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On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to overhead, such as: aerial, atop, skyward, upward, hanging, and on high.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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