How to Use overflight in a Sentence

overflight

noun
  • The deal will also grant overflight rights and direct flights to and from Israel.
    — Morgan Phillips, Fox News, 10 Dec. 2020
  • De Aquino has gotten to go along on overflights of the crater, the first time terrified.
    — MarÍa Verza, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2023
  • And the right of a country to operate on the high seas includes the freedom of overflight.
    — Ashley S. Deeks, The Conversation, 15 Mar. 2023
  • An overflight of the volcano shows a small new crater formed by the explosion on January 8.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 13 Jan. 2016
  • Unexplained drone overflights have caused two nights of airport disruptions.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Aircraft do not have an analogous right to overflight of the territorial sea.
    — Jill Goldenziel, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • Harvey Stockman was the pilot and Soviet radar had tracked that first overflight.
    — CBS News, 17 June 2020
  • Government photos from a helicopter overflight showed what appeared to be white smoke rising from one building.
    — Washington Post, 6 June 2017
  • Even a token port call or bomber overflight could add political friction – and pause for thought in Washington.
    — Robert Muggah, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Were the B-52s there for freedom of navigation and overflight?
    — James Griffiths, CNN, 6 June 2018
  • An overflight of the volcano on December 27 showed the extent of the new, dark, black lava flows from the eruption.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
  • To map the resources, workers will use an airborne electromagnetic survey, known as overflights.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 5 May 2023
  • Kyiv still possesses enough longer-range air-defenses to deny its deep air space to direct overflight by Russian aircraft.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 1 June 2022
  • In Oman, the sultanate allows thousands of overflights and hundreds of landings a year, while also granting access to ports and its bases.
    — Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2020
  • Fat Albert is the unsung star of the team’s air show act, kicking it off with a low-altitude overflight and some fancy maneuvers of its own.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2020
  • The team used both ground surveys and broad overflights to count from April 2021 to April 2023.
    — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025
  • As part of the deal, Israel committed to limit unmanned drone overflights above the territory.
    — Neri Zilber, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The Defense Department declined to comment about the overflight of the carrier strike group.
    — Evan Hill, Cate Cadell, Ellen Nakashima and Christian Shepherd, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Flight crews have conducted multiple overflights in a search for the containers, and initially located nine.
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 14 Mar. 2018
  • So far, the Coast Guard said overflight assessments determined there have been no reports of injuries or shoreline impacts.
    — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Of the three, only the Pushpa was close to Aalborg on Wednesday night when the latest drone overflights were reported.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2025
  • An overflight of Pu'u O'o (below) shows the pit where the activity once was and not much happening beyond some steaming ground.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2018
  • The Chinese government has said the craft was never intended for an overflight of Montana but was pushed off course by westerly winds.
    — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Officials did not say how China reacted to the overflights, and American officials said that the claims were false.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 14 Feb. 2023
  • That case prompted the start of federal overflights during the Copper River opener, Charles said.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2023
  • During an overflight on 13 May, evidence of pyroclastic flows on the N flank was observed.
    — Erik Klemetti, WIRED, 14 May 2008
  • Israel also breached the 2006 agreement by conducting near daily overflights in Lebanon.
    — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The helos conducted an overflight w/ @GovRonDeSantis & placed two pumps to help lower the water level enough to repair the leak.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Tension between Russian and US troops is not uncommon in Syria as both countries conduct patrols on the ground as well as overflights.
    — Bassem Mroue, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • Missile defense is part of the response, along with more naval exercises in the Black Sea and more consistent overflights by reconnaissance aircraft.
    — Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 31 May 2016

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