How to Use overlie in a Sentence

overlie

verb
Definition of overlienext
Synonyms for overlienext
  • The doctors overlay data from the vest with images from scans of the patient’s heart.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2017
  • One Twitch feature lets gamers stream the official G League video feed, but overlay their own play-by-play.
    — Benny Evangelista, SFChronicle.com, 17 June 2018
  • There was the signal, and there was their prediction of what the waveform from the merger of two black holes would look like overlying it.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2016
  • That’s a very specific cause of cardiac arrest that occurs when there is blunt force trauma to the heart, or the chest wall that overlies the heart.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
  • Water in crust, in minerals, and in any sediments along for the ride is released in to the mantle of the overlying plate.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2010
  • This melts the overlying ice, creating a dark band of open water running around the equator.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 2 Mar. 2020
  • There’s the overlying fear that every coach has that their players, too, will enter that portal.
    — Sam Blum, Dallas News, 7 Jan. 2020
  • The new bat fossil seemed to be smaller in size than the other two bat species found from similar, overlying levels in the lake limestone, and its bones seemed to be stouter.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Heat waves create the perfect conditions for spotting crop marks, which form in fields that overlay ancient buildings, from the air.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 11 July 2018
  • Researchers have a good understanding of Antarctic subglacial lakes, which can fill and drain and cause overlying ice to flow quicker.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 June 2019
  • The underlying geology imparts a signature on the overlying soils and then the plants that grow on those soils.
    — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Researchers will also be able to download the map and overlay their data, according to Gizmodo.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Other paintings overlay a cranium and its contents, whether bone, flesh or inner light.
    — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Recently Google examined brain waves to find new ways to evaluate user response to overlay ads in YouTube videos.
    — Adam Duvander, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2008
  • Mongolia’s Gobi desert is the world’s richest fossil area, overlying vast lakes and rivers that were a prehistoric paradise for plant life and dinosaurs.
    — Richard Drew, National Geographic, 9 Sep. 2016
  • So, subducting slab releases water as the slab goes down, this prompts melting in the overlying mantle and magmas rise into the overriding plate.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2010
  • The sale outcome would also be a strange end to the Trump administration’s push to allow drilling in the refuge, which is thought to overlie billions of barrels of oil, although that thinking is largely based on decades-old data.
    — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2020
  • In this case, there may be other demographic factors that overlay onto these results.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2017
  • This can be physical demanding labor because a lot of overlying rock often has to be removed before the bone layer is exposed.
    — Hans-Dieter Sues, Smithsonian, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Normally, this recombination causes peaks in one half-beam’s waves to overlie troughs in the other’s, and vice versa, resulting in darkness.
    — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The coastal plain is thought to overlie geological formations that could hold billions of barrels of oil, although that assessment is based on data collected in the 1980s.
    — New York Times, 16 Nov. 2020
  • The freeways are the concrete net that overlies it all, but only real Angelenos enter their mesmerizing alpha state.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Last year's viral craze, Pokémon Go, is no longer flooding parks, churches and main streets with smartphone-toting users trying to catch the virtual monsters that overlay onto real-world streets, lawns and benches.
    — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 5 July 2017
  • The coastal plain is believed to overlie one of the last remaining significant petroleum reserves in the United States, and could potentially yield billions of barrels of oil.
    — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
  • In addition to seeing tissues better through fat, overlying tissue and blood, MCI has the potential to make surgeons more efficient with less training.
    — Laura Landro, WSJ, 28 May 2018
  • It’s thought that Europa’s subsurface ocean, like that within Saturn’s moon Enceladus, occasionally spurts out plumes of liquid water from cracks in the overlying ice.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The projectors overlay information for the workers directly on the fuselage itself, such as where fasteners are to be installed, the order that work is to be done, and where certain tooling accessories are not to be used.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 3 July 2019
  • While many wildfires do burn trees and shrubs, the loss of this overlying vegetation canopy only slightly increases the amount of rainfall that reaches the soil surface and the kinetic energy delivered by the raindrops to the ground surface.
    — Lee MacDonald, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2018
  • Such surface stasis should be impossible atop a truly ancient ocean because 100 million years or so is more than enough time for churning waters below to fracture and fragment the overlying icy crust.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2024
  • So contact is obviously a very important issue, but there may be this overlying effect of the environment, like the climate of a place, that acts as an upper boundary as to how much virus activity there can be.
    — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2020

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