| The brow of the upland overtops the square tower of the Colebrook Church. |
| It was hard to believe that that lofty wooded rampart on the left which so overtops the Jungfrau was not actually the higher of the two, but it was not, of course. |
| The sonata form is not desperately evaded, and in the rondo of the E minor Concerto he overtops Hummel on his native heath. |
| Hours before the worst of Hurricane Rita ravages the Texas and Louisiana coasts, water overwhelms or overtops a newly patched levee. |
| Wet areas support powerful, fast-growing vegetation that both overtops seedlings in summer and compresses them in fall and winter. |
