Examples of “overfly” in a Sentence

verb To travel by air above a place.

• My family planned to take pictures from the ground as I overflew them in the hot air balloon.
• In the canopy, friendly birds (not the desperate, demented scavengers that sometimes overflew the plains) chirped and laboured on their nests. — Hernan Diaz, In the Distance (2017)

verb To fly further than intended and go past the place you meant to reach.

• The small size of the airstrip meant that pilots would frequently overfly and have to circle back.