How to Use overshoot in a Sentence

overshoot

verb
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  • The plane overshot the runway.
  • Sometimes we overshoot our time limits.
  • Coming in amid strong winds and heavy rain, the plane overshot the runway.
    — Zeynep Bilginsoy, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Wentz overshot Jeffery in the end zone in the first quarter and tight end Brent Celek just short of the goal line in the fourth.
    — Jeff McLane, Philly.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Ziegler overshoots the sweet spot where her play should have ended.
    — F. Kathleen Foley, latimes.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • What if the U.S. stayed in the agreement but greatly overshot its emissions goal?
    — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 31 May 2017
  • To value investors, such a move smacks of a market that has overshot to the downside.
    — Robert Burgess, latimes.com, 18 May 2018
  • The Fed would need to keep rates low, even as inflation overshot its target.
    — Justin Wolfers, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2017
  • One of the parachuters badly overshot the field and ended up face-planting into the wall behind the endzone.
    — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Richardson overshot his target on 65-yard throws by a step.
    — Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The plan was for the 55-pound satellite to overshoot the moon before falling back into the new lunar orbit on Nov. 13.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 6 July 2022
  • Heath pulled off his hat, ruffled his hair and spun around as Mao, an 18-year-old from John’s Creek, Ga., overshot a birdie putt by just inches.
    — Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • After completing his first six passes of the night, Nix overshot Eli Stove on a deep ball downfield on the Tigers’ final drive of the first half.
    — Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The Wolverines were fortunate a few times through the air, as Hayden Moore overshot some open targets and had one perfect deep throw dropped inside the red zone.
    — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Heath said reaction to the loss overshot the actual impact.
    — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 7 Mar. 2017
  • Kizer stepped up in the pocket and fired their way, overshooting everybody.
    — cleveland.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • But testers hated overshooting a destination and then turning around, into the wind, at one-fourth the speed.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 30 Aug. 2019
  • After two runs that went nowhere, Simpson overshot Niblack in the endzone as Reichard makes up for his earlier miss.
    — Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 22 Apr. 2023
  • China watchers say the worry is its efforts have overshot.
    — Chao Deng, WSJ, 26 July 2018
  • This isn't the only lesson Mindhunter fails to land on, though with this next point, the problem is that the first season overshot its mark rather than underperformed.
    — Paige S. Allen, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Oct. 2017
  • Unfortunately for the Colts, Pascal airmailed the throw, overshooting a wide open Hines by at least three or four yards.
    — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 20 Oct. 2019
  • Instead, the new-look ECB will pursue inflation of 2% in the medium term, and officials will have room to overshoot the target if needed.
    — Charles Riley, CNN, 22 July 2021
  • But the picture could change rapidly if central bankers overshoot in their zeal to control inflation.
    — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 16 June 2022
  • Schultz was intending the pass for Colin Vieth but overshot his outstretched hand.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Some raised the possibility the Fed could overshoot the mark and raise rates too high, which could trigger an economic downturn.
    — David Harrison, WSJ, 7 June 2018
  • The car must be precisely in its box to avoid a penalty, with teams repositioning the cars before starting their work to avoid penalties if the driver overshoots the box.
    — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 12 June 2023
  • Buyers stayed on the sidelines because a market that has overshot can always overshoot even further in the short run, but the bond yield wasn’t a reflection of the real risks to Italy.
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 30 May 2018
  • It was presumably meant to hit a neighboring thermal power plant, but overshot, exploding in a flash of brick and steel.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The special material is designed to stop an aircraft that overshoots the runway by having the ground collapse under the plane’s weight.
    — Wayne K. Roustan, sun-sentinel.com, 29 June 2019
  • The junior Kelly was forced to overshoot his stop slightly because, his driver told him, the installation of bike lanes had caused some stops to be removed.
    — Choire Sicha, Curbed, 1 Nov. 2021

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