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Example sentences for: overland

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Taking the Metro (the overland electric railway section) from downtown Athens costs only 250drs and brings you directly to the waterside.
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.
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.
Most people take the regular flights from Aswan to Abu Simbel—around 50 minutes—but the four-hour overland route offers a fascinating insight into life away from the big tourist towns of Egypt if you have more time.
Exploration and settlement overland followed travel by sea.