Surveilled, in a way

Usage examples of overflew.

We overflew the southern deserts and passed Qandahar without incident, but a full-scale battle had broken out further up the Tarkan valley towards Kabul.

The assumption is that, like so many other Out Island ships, the dragons overflew it, throwing the crew into a vacant-eyed stupor, and then destroyed it with the great wind and waves that their wings could stir.

The fans and the motors driving them were buried deep in the hull, shielded unless the pilot overflew the shooter.

There were times when enemy planes appeared, like flights of grey pigeons, but they overflew, leaving Binford and its neighbourhood untouched.

The choppers overflew the town repeatedly, descending to within twenty or thirty feet of the treetops.

Abruptly the bird overflew more structures, an enormous complex of quarried stone on the peninsula opposite the human settlement.

However, he overflew these patches of sand and rock, knowing that the hawk would fall on him as he tried to find a perch.

The dead towns it overflew, the remnants of railroad boom, were like discolourations on heliotypes.

News helicopters overflew the riot areas regularly, commenting live on the situation using swift words and camera shots that looked down upon the mad citizens as if journalists came from a higher moral plane, while in the background the motor went vup-vup.

He did not notice the raven which overflew the ship, heading inland on a sure and steady course, its primary feathers spread like fingers.