How to Use overland in a Sentence

overland

1 of 2 adverb
  • We traveled overland by horse to the mountains.
  • Some modern fish can move overland by pushing their bodies up with their fins and flopping forward.
    — National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2020
  • For those arriving overland or by sea, the fee is half that at 150 Baht.
    — Johanna Read, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
  • This made the boats flexible and light enough for smaller ones to be transported overland.
    — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The exhausted Greek troops were marched overland back to the capital.
    — National Geographic, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Volunteers retrieved the sleds and transported the dog teams overland to Nome.
    — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Many more people have since left overland for neighboring countries in hopes of traveling on to the West.
    — NBC News, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Then they are smuggled overland to Jordan and Lebanon, where some leave via Beirut’s air and seaports.
    — New York Times, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Forced to abandon their vehicle and run overland for nearly a mile, the Hylands were severely burned.
    — Michelle Nijhuis, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Others believe the Welsh stones were loaded on to sleds and dragged overland, perhaps as a public display meant to impress.
    — National Geographic, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Over a 12-month period this water would be pumped to the surface, piped overland and sent underground into the burn area.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Its founder, Henderson Lewelling, brought his fruit trees and his family overland by oxcart from Iowa.
    — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
  • After landing in Nicaragua, the Cuban migrants travel overland to the southern border.
    — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Since then, Nok’s adventures have only grown bolder, with trips overland from Egypt to East Asia.
    — Salma Arafa, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Wednesday, Basham said that in those neighborhoods there is no stormwater conveyance system, so the water goes overland instead of into sewers.
    — Mike Danahey, Elgin Courier-News, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Shipments of Western arms have continued with convoys bringing them in overland across Ukraine’s western borders.
    — Brett Forrest and Alan Cullison, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2022
  • The 14 drones were being shipped overland through Kazakhstan when they were flagged by customs officials for lacking the proper export paperwork.
    — Joby Warrick, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
  • Those visitors now often spend a chunk of their day traveling overland to the park as part of a cruise package, especially from Anchorage, more than five hours away by bus and longer by train.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Most go overland to neighboring China first, then enter a third country such as Thailand before finally making it to the South.
    — CBS News, 24 June 2026
  • These supplies and tens of thousands of volunteers have continued to flow overland lately through the border with Poland, with the western city of Lviv serving as a supply hub.
    — Brett Forrest and Alan Cullison, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2022
  • It is etched in the fearful faces of young recruits lining up at the airport for flights to Moscow, and from there overland to Rostov-on-Don and into Ukraine.
    — Roger Cohen Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Many of the amorous amphibians, traveling overland to annual mating ponds, are captured by a student volunteer prior to the event, though quick-handed kids nabbed tiny spring peepers throughout the evening.
    — cleveland, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Geography dictates that anybody traveling overland from South America has to pass through it to reach the United States.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The connection with southern Europe suggests that this exchange involved travel along the Atlantic coast, rather than travelers making their way overland across the Alps.
    — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Iran is towing a giant attack submarine overland by truck, reportedly from a shipyard back to the sprawling Iranian naval base of Bandar Abbas.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 July 2020
  • Attempts to reroute the supplies overland would be expensive and extremely difficult, in part, because Ukrainian railway carriages would have to be refitted to work in other parts of Europe.
    — Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022
  • Discoveries at both sites reflect the field's growing focus on the likelihood that the first humans to explore North America came not overland but via a maritime Kelp Highway.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2018
  • After Russia imposed a stranglehold on Ukraine’s southern ports early in the war, officials shifted some of their exports to ports on the river — a less-than-ideal alternative, as the shipments still must travel overland.
    — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Born into a Polish shtetl in 1886 and trained as a tailor, the young man traveled overland across the European continent at the turn of the century, hoping to escape the pogroms of the old world for the promise of the new.
    — Ben Croll, Variety, 25 Nov. 2021

overland

2 of 2 adjective
  • How that success transfers to this fall’s overland races remains to be seen.
    — Joe Magill, cleveland, 22 Aug. 2022
  • An overland trek in April, in an attempt to trap beavers, nearly did them in.
    — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Jan. 2022
  • At one point this year, an overland exit into Pakistan was to take place over two days.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022
  • This force could be landed in support of an overland invasion.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The overland route to the southern peninsula is beset by gangs.
    — Chris Kenning, The Courier-Journal, 20 Aug. 2021
  • The sea route to the gold fields had several advantages over the overland route, but food was not one of them.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The plane’s economics were challenging, and its sonic booms led it to be banned on many overland routes.
    — Ben Finley, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2023
  • Together, the three of them made the overland trip and crossed the Darién Gap.
    — Joe Penney, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2021
  • But an amphibious landing combined with an overland assault might do the trick.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Like opting for longer and more sporadic overland journeys instead of shorter trips with long-haul flights?
    — Kate Siber, Outside Online, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The project would also require overland travel along the project right-of-way, along the access roads and in work areas.
    — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2023
  • That’s why the overland community has turned to fridges for extended trips.
    — Outside Online, 5 July 2022
  • Outdoorsy is like Airbnb for RVs, trailers, overland trucks, and vans.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 25 Nov. 2020
  • In general, if it can be hunted on public land, that’s a good target species for an overland hunting trip.
    — Outdoor Life, 15 June 2020
  • But there are structural problems with this, like the fact that highways carry more overland cargo than people.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Those who survive the overland route seem to be granted more mercy, and continue northward.
    — Adam Yamaguchi, CBS News, 9 Oct. 2017
  • During that winter, Hendrik went on an overland trip with the ship’s astronomer, who succumbed to the cold.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2021
  • River otters are able to range over large tracts of habitat, both overland and along connected bodies of water.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Supersonic overland flight has been banned for decades due to the noise produced when aircraft break the sound barrier.
    — Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The Alloccos went to the grocery store and stocked up on salami, cheese, and water for the overland journey.
    — Joshuah Bearman, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The country is largely roadless and overland travel is time-consuming.
    — Erin Craig, National Geographic, 28 July 2020
  • Some of the problem is caused by overland truckers delaying delivery, some by delays at ports that could improve over time.
    — Walter Loeb, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Travel by water along the coast would better explain the speed and timing of these population splits than the slower overland route would.
    — Jennifer Raff, Scientific American, 1 May 2021
  • But instead of a simple overland journey of five hours, these jeans had likely lapped the globe before ending up for resale back in southern Africa.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2022
  • So much of our life is carefully curated; overland travel snatches any notion of control and hands your fate over to strangers, the elements, and the open road.
    — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 18 June 2021
  • The embassy said the fastest option for leaving Israel is to take an overland route like those that are available to Egypt and Jordan.
    — CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • But these days most Cuban migrants fly off the island, with relatives abroad often paying the airfare, followed by a tough overland journey.
    — Ed Augustin, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Dec. 2022
  • Thule started with roof racks and boxes, then in 2018 acquired Tepui rooftop tents, and with it, tremendous access to the overland crowd.
    — Jason Sakurai, Outside Online, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The trail was gone, swamped by water, so on Friday morning trail breakers on snowmachines tried to lead the group to Golovin on an overland trail buried by five feet of snow.
    — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2020
  • The goal is to slow down any Ukrainian overland attack, giving Russian forces time to attack the mechanized spearheads with air and artillery.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 June 2023

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