Overhead

//ˈəʊvəˌhɛd//

"Overhead" in a Sentence (20 examples)

The helicopter is hovering overhead.

A couple of swallows are flying overhead.

Should I put this bag in the overhead compartment?

It's in the overhead compartment.

The jet made a whining sound as it soared overhead.

The sun was blazing overhead.

I left my bag on the overhead rack in the train.

Trains rattled overhead.

An airplane is flying overhead.

A bird in hand is safer than one overhead.

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Place your luggage in the overhead lockers.

The railway consists of some 18 miles of double track electrified on the overhead principle.

In a city where media companies and hospitals have armed guards, this accessibility is unusual. Inside, drivers sit and chat in between shifts, the overhead fan whirring and causing the dim electric light to flicker over their faces.

It was Rooney, however, who produced a moment of inspiration to score a stunning overhead kick that will live forever in the memory of United's fans and extended City's dismal sequence of only one league win in their last 27 visits to Old Trafford.

There was no room left in the overheads for our luggage, our seats did not recline, and the washrooms were right behind us.

Network overhead is the header data that is required to route and transport data over the network, whereas fork overhead is the additional time and memory cost of creating and managing new processes within the operating system.

birds flying overhead

Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.

[…] the influence of the minister's week-day attentions, first in creating, and afterwards in keeping up among the people of his parish their habit of Sabbath attendance. So indispensable in towns is the connexion between these two things, that were seat-rents let down at this moment to two shillings overhead, or even annihilated, so as to throw open the whole of the church room at accessible prices to the lowest of the people, we shall greatly mistake the result if we look for a great and visible increase of attendance per saltum on the part of the parish families.

Cigarette smoke was sucked out through the cracks in the glass of the glazed panes overhead the side street and the parking lot.

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