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- verb Past participle of
overfly
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Examples
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And outside, a Cessna, far from home, shakes the blinds split with milky light, overflown.
Float Like An Asterisk, Sting Like A Mote Dennis Mahagin 2011
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The Road to Hope group said the ship had headed into international waters before being chased by Libyan navy ships and reportedly overflown by jets and helicopters.
Gaza aid team trapped on Greek boat Owen Bowcott 2010
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"Your lack of awareness that Northwest 188 had overflown the airport to which it had been dispatched is completely unacceptable," said the FAA.
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The area is regularly overflown by low-flying jets from a nearby military base.
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PILOT: Roger, we got distracted and we have overflown Minneapolis.
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Only then did they look down and realize they had overflown their destination -- Wolf.
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It was overflown thirteen times in the previous two days by Israeli Air Force planes and eight times just prior to the Israeli attack by various IAF aircraft, some passing so close their engine vibration rattled the Liberty's deck plates and some of their pilots even waved to crew members on board.
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I did pinch a second loaf after my original overflown loaf and when I lifted my ass off the throne the loaf was totally gone.
The Guantanamo Bay military prison meets the requirements of the Geneva Conventions. Ann Althouse 2009
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Your local charity is starving of money but Obama's compaign is overflown with money such that he is spending an insanely amount of money spreading lies about Hillary and debasing the only successful post-war two-term Democratic president.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Roger, we got distracted and we have overflown Minneapolis.
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