Crossword clues for overfly
overfly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overfly \O`ver*fly"\, v. t. [imp. Overflew; p. p. Overflown;
p. pr. & vb. n. Overflying.]
To cross or pass over by flight.
--Byron.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To fly over something. 2 To fly too far past something.
WordNet
Usage examples of "overfly".
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.
The pictures were spy sat overflies of some kind of military installation, computer-augmented for color and dimension.
Their assignments included overflying such sensitive locations as Novaya Zemlya, the banana-shaped island where Russia carried out its most secret atomic tests.
Iraq was emboldened and in November announced that no more Americans would be allowed on the inspection teams, demanded that American inspectors already in Iraq leave, and threatened to shoot down American U-2 spy planes overflying Iraq in support of the inspections.
Federation military aircraft overflying the region have reported considerable concentrations of "game-' He turned to the map on the wall behind him.
He himself had taken short trips - no absences long enough to arouse suspicion, and never where dragonriders might inconveniently overfly him.