Example sentences for: overhead

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

  • However, at the same time, it can have some serious restrictions on the size of the data being analyzed because of the overhead on CPU speed and memory induced by S-Plus.

  • When he reports for a drudge job as a file clerk, the office is between the seventh and eighth floors of a Manhattan skyscraper--it's the seven-and-a-halfth floor, where people walk stooped and make feeble jokes about the "low overhead."

  • Behind the simple modern altar, the columns branch high overhead into the arched vaulting of the apse.

  • Were the offeror's proposed rates compared with the direct, indirect, overhead, and general and administrative rates recommended by the appropriate contract audit activity?

  • The junks are a picturesque sight: children frolicking on the poop deck, women preparing food or playing mah-jong, elderly folk watching the sunset, dogs and cats underfoot, songbirds in bamboo cages overhead — and all afloat.


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