Example sentences for: overland

How can you use “overland” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • From this vantage point the city could control not only the ships that passed through the strait on the important trade route between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, but also the overland traffic travelling from Europe in­­to Asia Minor, which used the narrow strait as a crossing point.

  • The Bosphorus is one of the world’s most active shipping lanes, and the overland traffic is now carried by two of the world’s longest suspension bridges.

  • They didn’t stay for long, but gradually other traders and fur trappers began to arrive overland through Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico, settling only in small numbers until the famous covered wagons began their heroic treks of the 1840s.

  • Exploration and settlement overland followed travel by sea.

  • Taking the Metro (the overland electric railway section) from downtown Athens costs only 250drs and brings you directly to the waterside.


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