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overhead
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  • From overhead came a frenzied flutter, followed by a harsh kssh! kssh! ksshhh!   (source)
    overhead = above the head
  • Overhead, a huge storm was gathering.   (source)
    overhead = above the head (in this case, in the sky)
  • Something whizzes overhead, then an explosion goes off in front of us.†   (source)
  • The day Dr. Kimball lectured on slavery, he filled the overhead screen with a charcoal sketch of a slave market.†   (source)
  • Overhead, cicadas squealed against a mean sun.†   (source)
  • The noise of it passed overhead, like a low-flying plane.†   (source)
  • Sometimes we would spot rats running through it and crows would circle overhead.†   (source)
  • Far overhead arched a vaulted ceiling.†   (source)
  • As if on cue, a MiG suddenly screamed past overhead.†   (source)
  • Claudius Templesmith's voice booms down from overhead, congratulating the six of us who remain.†   (source)
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  • A crop duster flew overhead.†   (source)
  • It's a spartan building with a corrugated steel roof that shakes so badly when a plane passes overhead, she half expects it to collapse.†   (source)
  • The sun blazed overhead, burning the back of his neck.†   (source)
  • The sun was almost directly overhead.†   (source)
  • Gulls wheeled overhead.†   (source)
  • We hadn't bothered to turn on the overhead light, and that was soothing, too—just sitting in the dark.†   (source)
  • She looked all around her—back at the house, across the fields, and up into the canopy of branches overhead.†   (source)
  • Soon there were many birds along the way, soaring overhead, calling.†   (source)
  • About noon, the sun was almost straight overhead, the clouds began to thicken and look dark.†   (source)
  • It was bad enough being drenched by the overhead sprinkler and draped with noodles; now they were carrying her right past them all.†   (source)
  • "No," said Stacey quietly, his eyes still on the trees overhead.†   (source)
  • There was a single overhead light in the room; it had a yellow silk shade.†   (source)
  • High ceiling canted overhead.†   (source)
  • Squadrons of returning B-29s swooped down out of the sky and flew overhead in perfect formation as down below, on the streets, the crowds roared and wept and welcomed the good men home.†   (source)
  • We were looking up, our heads near the trunk of that lone oak tree, the sky smoke-gray above us past our fogged breath, the leafless branches intersecting overhead.†   (source)
  • Overhead, the cloudless sky presented us with yet another magnificent shade of blue.†   (source)
  • The stars overhead shone even more brightly.†   (source)
  • It glowed in alternating reds and yellows and blues under the overhead lighting.†   (source)
  • Then, like a lone sailor adrift for years on alien seas, he wakes one night to discover familiar constellations overhead.†   (source)
  • The water showed only the sky overhead.†   (source)
  • The twinkling of stars overhead is no longer a comfort.†   (source)
  • Fleecy clouds floated lazily overhead.†   (source)
  • Overhead, TV helicopters clattered, and in front of us and behind us sirens wailed.†   (source)
  • The sky overhead was cloudless and blue, but Thomas could see no sign of the sun despite the brightness of the day.†   (source)
  • The air was warm, and the sun was already high overhead.†   (source)
  • Overhead, a jet plane veered away like a sleek evil bird.†   (source)
  • It remained clear below, there being no underbrush of any kind, but overhead the canopy was so dense that the sky was quite blocked off, or, another way of putting it, the sky was solidly green.†   (source)
  • In one tank sharks swim overhead, just like we're actually looking up from the ocean floor.†   (source)
  • The sun blazed overhead.†   (source)
  • A seagull squawked as it flew overhead.†   (source)
  • Alarms erupted overhead at earsplitting decibel levels.†   (source)
  • A hovercar passed overhead, and Tally ducked.†   (source)
  • A lamp that hung from a long chain overhead.†   (source)
  • Around midday, with the dead-eyed sun high overhead, the ghouls stopped, and huddled.†   (source)
  • A shadow swoops overhead.†   (source)
  • As you enter the tunnel, the wind gets sucked away, and you squint from the lights overhead.†   (source)
  • I could have turned on the overhead light, but something stopped me.†   (source)
  • A breeze swayed the branches overhead.†   (source)
  • The wall swung closed behind them, and immediately a light came on overhead.†   (source)
  • One of them was towing a long, empty trailer, and the other had a cherry picker on it—the kind they use to work on overhead power lines and telephone poles.†   (source)
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