How to Use overprice in a Sentence

overprice

verb
  • The store was guilty of overpricing its goods.
  • Everything in the store is grossly overpriced.
  • But Lundquist said builders must be careful not to overprice their homes.
    — Tony Bizjak, sacbee, 21 May 2018
  • That’s why a lot of these boxes are overpriced—there’s not much inside.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Still, at $62 a liter, the chefs pronounced the oil overpriced.
    — Rhonda Richford, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2017
  • At times, the market may get ahead of itself and even overprice a stock with great prospects.
    — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Great work Ford; now don’t go overpricing this thing in the future!
    — Marc D. Grasso, Boston Herald, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Still, a house can be overpriced, and today's savvy house hunters can smell an overpriced house a mile away.
    — Diana Olick, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2017
  • At times, the market may get ahead and even overprice a stock with excellent prospects.
    — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 26 May 2022
  • The big jump for stocks has come at a time when some investors had already seen markets as overpriced.
    — Pan Pylas, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2017
  • The temptation to overprice is stronger.
    — Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Bittman, who makes most of his coffee at home, says many coffee shops are overpriced by a factor of at least four.
    — NBC News, 10 Nov. 2019
  • Cy the Cynic says that the best things in life are free — and everything else is overpriced.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2017
  • City disputes that the contracts were overpriced, and is appealing against the ban.
    — The Economist, 29 Feb. 2020
  • Those agents can overprice homes, mess with marketing, or fail to book timely showings.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Everyone’s got money, there’s a lot of screaming and things are overpriced.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 19 May 2025
  • Anwar has said many of the projects awarded were overpriced and given without tender.
    — Eileen Ng, ajc, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Now, buyers will wait for the right home and show little interest in homes that need updates or are overpriced.
    — Sara B. Hansen, Denver Post, 10 Apr. 2025
  • While the Pixel Watch is overpriced, this is, at least, a fixable problem.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Yet some experts make a case that stocks are not overpriced by important measures and will continue to rise.
    — Jeff Brown, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2017
  • Market watchers have said for months that stocks were overpriced and long overdue for another pullback.
    — Alex Veiga, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Is there enough overpriced moisturizer in your master bath to lube a Chevy pickup?
    — Southern Living, 31 Jan. 2017
  • The two governments wrangled for months over the project, which critics had lambasted as overpriced.
    — Yantoultra Ngui, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2019
  • These are extremely in-demand tickets, so resold tickets will most likely be overpriced.
    — Mary Boyte, The Tennessean, 17 Oct. 2024
  • To many listeners, Powell was saying stocks are overpriced.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Dog shampoo can be overpriced and with a needlessly long ingredient list.
    — Rebekah Lowin, Country Living, 1 May 2020
  • But the Chiefs’ best bet, Corry suspects, is to sit out the first wave of free agency and see who overprices themselves.
    — Terez A. Paylor, kansascity, 9 Mar. 2018
  • The tequila is real, clean and not overpriced by deceptive marketing.
    — Hannah Seligson, Town & Country, 11 June 2019
  • The air is crisp, the flowers are overpriced, and everyone seems suddenly obsessed with hearts and chocolate.
    — Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The raging run-up makes equities way overpriced regardless of the how long the economy takes to rebound.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 18 May 2020

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