OVERPASS in a Sentence

Learn OVERPASS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for OVERPASS, such as:

1. Economic shrinking has finally been overpassed now.
2. They deflated the tires slightly to allow the truck to drive under the overpass.

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 Meanings and Examples of OVERPASS
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overpass
 n.  bridge formed by the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels
Classic Sentence:
1  This word crime overpassed the measure of what Marius, who was already greatly agitated by the abrupt evocation of Waterloo, could accept.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON
Example Sentence:
1  They deflated the tires slightly to allow the truck to drive under the overpass.
2  Economic shrinking has finally been overpassed now.