How to Use overreach in a Sentence

overreach

verb
  • The company overreached itself and ran out of money after one year.
  • She overreaches in her latest book, and her argument is not convincing.
  • The style of play that tends to win is plodding and overreached.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2020
  • That kind of progress comes from precision, not overreach.
    — Mike Vietri, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The fastest way to make the backlash a certainty is to overreach.
    — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The courts did not reach a conclusion on whether the state statute was overreaching.
    — Ralph Ellis, CNN, 3 Apr. 2018
  • And sellers who have tracked the years-long upswing might now be overreaching.
    — OregonLive.com, 28 Dec. 2017
  • Mayor, this is a jobs killer, the worst kind of government overreach.
    — Greg Jefferson, ExpressNews.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • These powers should be used to stabilize — not overreach.
    — Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 4 May 2026
  • Now, who can stop the president from overreaching?
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
  • In deciding the case at all, Kagan said the court overreached.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 30 June 2023
  • And the streamers have overreached and recaptured too much value.
    — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2023
  • That drew concerns about privacy and overreach.
    — Idaho Statesman, 1 Dec. 2025
  • In moments like these, emergency powers are not about overreach.
    — Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 4 May 2026
  • The central risk of admitting this publicly isn’t overreach so much as over-promising.
    — Brian Beutler, New Republic, 22 May 2017
  • But Boling says Congress is at risk of overreaching.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Feb. 2017
  • Regardless of the intentions, some feel the bill might be overreaching.
    — Andrew Nicla, azcentral, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Netanyahu’s supporters view the charges as the result of bias and overreach by the justice system.
    — Tia Goldenberg, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Do not overreach and erode the constitutional norms that were under assault that day.
    — W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 26 May 2021
  • Attempts to kill this form of government overreach in the intervening years have failed.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 July 2019
  • The conviction among his critics that Sessions is racist has sometimes led them to overreach.
    — Molly Ball, Time, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Basically this is a struggle to define what is within the purview of oversights and what is overreach.
    — Fox News, 22 May 2018
  • In response, the administration pushed back with claims that the court is overreaching.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Their lawyers are still trying to get the case thrown out, arguing the charges are overreaching and unwarranted.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The pregnant pauses between seasons have overreached.
    — Emma Flint, IndieWire, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Still, the Republicans could overreach and give Democrats an opening.
    — Richard Galant, CNN, 20 Nov. 2022
  • The group frames the bill as government overreach and a step toward animal rights activists imposing their views on the state.
    — Dustin Gardiner, SFChronicle.com, 17 July 2019
  • Big Tech’s overreach A stock-market correction or sharp retreat would badly maul tech shares — and job growth.
    — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 23 Dec. 2017
  • The fatal temptation in a moment of triumph is to overreach, and Democrats are already at risk of trying to grab too much.
    — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 9 Oct. 2020
  • And overreach by the DEA is destroying tens of thousands of patients’ lives for no good reason.
    — STAT, 28 June 2019

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