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VERB
  1. lie upon; lie on top of
    the granite overlies the older rocks
  2. kill by lying on
    The sow overlay her piglets

How To Use overlie In A Sentence

  • I would not try to say how far the common extended, or how far its privileges; but the land about is mostly held in great estates, like most of the land in England, and no doubt there are signorial rights which overlie the popular privileges. London Films
  • The halomorphic soils of the Etosha area overlie calcrete and are shallow, alkaline, high in water soluble salts while poor in both phosphates and nitrogen. Angolan Mopane woodlands
  • The halomorphic soils of the Etosha area overlie calcrete and are shallow, alkaline, high in water soluble salts while poor in both phosphates and nitrogen. Angolan Mopane woodlands
  • The focus of this article is the mineralization that occurs within a 10-25 meter layer of bedded pillow lava that overlies subaqueous flow lobes and massive columnar basalt that is well exposed in the quarry.
  • Uppermost Permian and Triassic terrestrial sediments conformably overlie the terminal volcanic rocks.
  • During the surgery, care must be taken to protect the branches of the superficial and radial nerves that dorsally overlie the first dorsal compartment.
  • The Cape Floristic Region overlies the Cape Supergroup, a Devonian-Ordovician series of sedimentary strata, where alternating quartzitic sandstones such as Table Mountain and the Witteberg Groups alternate with fine-grained shales, as seen in the Bokkeveld Group. Montane fynbos and renosterveld
  • This tidal delta origin is also supported by the observation that the succession does not overlie any regional incision surface.
  • They also noted that much kaolin is in or near decomposed porphyry bodies that overlie the largest ore shoots in the Leadville Dolomite.
  • The acrosome is a large membrane-limited granule that overlies the nucleus of mature sperm PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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