How to Use superimpose in a Sentence

superimpose

verb
  • A triangle superimposed on an inverted triangle forms a six-pointed star.
  • Capron added an image of his face superimposed over a kitchen apron as a punch line.
    — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Capron added an image of his face superimposed over a kitchen apron as a punch line.
    — Virginia Chamlee, People.com, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Posters around town showed his face superimposed on a guitar.
    — Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 26 June 2019
  • And superimposed over these waves, like a film, a white antique chest of drawers.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
  • One poster showed his face superimposed on Adolf Hitler's body.
    — Alan Suderman, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2020
  • In fact, two crosses—the beams and the gables—are superimposed but offset.
    — Shonquis Moreno, Curbed, 6 Aug. 2018
  • At the end, the younger Kennedy’s face was superimposed over his uncle’s.
    — TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
  • One option puts a floating dot on your screen that brings up a menu that’s superimposed on all your apps and home screens.
    — Larry Magid, Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2025
  • If the nun superimposed in a mirror doesn’t scare you, the one at the end of the hallway surely will.
    — Mary Wakeford, azcentral, 17 Oct. 2019
  • These charts do not overlap in the way that Snow superimposed cholera and water pumps.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • Trump all superimposed with the red and white stripes of the American flag.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Each of the victims’ names was superimposed on the ice during a moment of the silence.
    — Kevin Allen, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2017
  • At practice, he was seen wearing a custom shirt with a gold chain superimposed upon it.
    — Andrew Turner, Daily Pilot, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The latter sentence was spread across three slides and superimposed on a stock photo of a man holding the world in his hands.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
  • People shouldn’t continue to insist that a dead cat and a live cat superimpose.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2025
  • This time, they were told to keep their eyes on a green cross superimposed over different parts of the screen as the driving clips were played.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 1 July 2019
  • These plasma jets, the team notes, can be seen superimposed on top of one another when viewing the black hole from afar.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 17 Jan. 2026
  • The video superimposed Perkins’ face onto the body of an actor playing him.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 17 June 2024
  • His every attempt at escape is frustrated and each episode ends with a set of iron bars superimposed on his face.
    — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The video even features the two rappers superimposed on the song’s cover image.
    — Arianna Johnson, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • The app allows users to superimpose text over a picture in order to share the user’s thoughts and feelings.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al.com, 3 June 2019
  • The two are superimposed against an illustration of the gates of heaven.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2026
  • But superimposed on all that pop culture are the white supremacist tropes.
    — M. Gessen, Mercury News, 11 June 2026
  • To flow outside the beat is to superimpose a pocket, and on this track, Yachty fails to develop one.
    — Danny Schwartz, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2021
  • At the end of the video, an image of Irvo Otieno was superimposed over the scene of a sunset.
    — Bill Atkinson, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
  • What we human beings have done is to superimpose a set of forces that are now bringing about climate change much faster than has been the case in the past.
    — Andrew Cutraro, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2011
  • To the naked eye, the images appeared superimposed on one another.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 July 2025
  • The guardians stand erect, with arms crossed at their chests and relief-like musculature superimposed on their bodies.
    — Melissa Harris, Artforum, 10 July 2025
  • One ad even superimposes a child gleefully driving like this, in case there’s any doubt about what the ads are appealing to.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2024

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