How to Use overreact in a Sentence

overreact

verb
  • No one wants to overreact this early in the year.
    — Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • These things shift over time, which is a good reason not to overreact.
    — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 9 June 2026
  • What to do First, don't overreact.
    — Sarah Vanbuskirk, Parents, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Don’t overreact to such a small sample size.
    — Austin Mock, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
  • This week is about not overreacting.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2025
  • So, even as the media fans the flames to white heat, the data thus far is telling us not to overreact.
    — Vasant Dhar, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The goal for the front office is not to overreact to the bad days, and not to get blinded by the good ones.
    — Cody Stavenhagen, The Athletic, 15 Feb. 2025
  • That's going to now fuel me to pursue my wish not to overreact.
    — Malaka Gharib, NPR, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The hosts talk about the small sample size being used by fans, and whether many are overreacting.
    — Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • And some who hear that rhetoric may overreact, or even respond with violence.
    — Eric Tucker and Alanna Durkin Richer, ajc, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Pay attention to what’s going on, don’t overreact and look for the drag-free drift.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Beware of overreacting when the moon and Venus square off.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 12 May 2026
  • In that case, your body might overreact and pump out lots of (and sometimes too much) protective melanin.
    — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Be careful and don’t overreact.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 31 May 2026
  • Don’t overreact to your losses.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 22 Feb. 2026
  • There’s no reason to be scared of cicadas and no need to overreact, say experts who spend lots of time with them.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 6 May 2024
  • While the loss looks bad on paper for Texas, there is no need for Longhorn fans to overreact.
    — Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Everybody overreacts when baseball teams get off to bad starts.
    — Steve Buckley, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Often what triggers a person to overreact is not the source of the problem.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Don’t overreact if someone decides to make a change that leaves you questioning what to do next.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Stock markets tend to overreact to news events, and this morning was no exception.
    — Mike Patton, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
  • Sharp money steps in when the public has overreacted.
    — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Users in the comments widely agreed that the group of friends was overreacting, and the woman wasn't wrong.
    — Rachel Raposas, People.com, 30 May 2025
  • For some people, breathing in pollen can cause their immune system to overreact.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 7 May 2024
  • Don’t mean to overreact here, spilling into eulogy mode, writing in the past tense.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Commenters were united in the opinion that the poster was not overreacting.
    — Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Their team overreacted, pushed our guy, dragging our guy to the sideline, so that's uncalled for on that side.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
  • This digital monster that has taught the culture how to overreact and fly off the handle needs to be tamed.
    — Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Obviously, college football fans tend to overreact when a teenage kid has a change of heart.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The sketch revolves around two parents who overreact to their college-age son coming home with an earring.
    — Rosa Escandon, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024

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