How to Use overseer in a Sentence

overseer

noun
  • Part of my job is to be one of the creative overseers of the projects going on here.
    — Noel Murray, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2017
  • As long as people think only nice thoughts about their overseers, all will be well.
    — Doug Bandow, National Review, 10 Feb. 2024
  • It’s betrayed that trust, and there have to be rules set by some outside overseer.
    — Matthew Ormseth, courant.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Soon, one of those miners dies — rather, he is killed using the butt of an overseer’s gun.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2022
  • The coffins signifies death to the slave master or to the overseer.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Lessin considered running for overseer again but gave up the idea.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Well, what if the Recruiter stops being an overseer and puts his own life on the line?
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
  • The mad white overseer, who could not understand their chant, would chase the flying slaves.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Upon crashing down, the overseer was mauled by the pack of hounds, which shocked Jake.
    — Durrell L. Smith, Outdoor Life, 10 June 2020
  • This transforms them from active hunters to strategic overseers.
    — Durga Krishnamoorthy, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Some of the Japanese overseers died, too.
    — Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
  • So your overseer guardrail wouldn't be able to peer into the reasoning process of such a model.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
  • And in a way, all market participants and overseers are to blame.
    — Bypeter Vanham, Fortune, 15 June 2023
  • If instead the people are in the fields and there was a white overseer on horseback with a whip riding by them.
    — Jericka Duncan, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2020
  • The overseer threw a two-pound weight at Tubman, cracking her skull and nearly killing her.
    — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The rest of the Africans attacked the overseer, took the whip from him, and proceeded to beat him with it.
    — al, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Ackman is also backing his own slate of candidates for the board of overseers.
    — Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Both the Pentagon overseer of the war court and the judge have declined the request.
    — Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 18 May 2017
  • Both the money and need for a new space, according to the unit’s overseer, are sorely needed.
    — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Impressed by his resolve, Charles appoints him as overseer.
    — Ed Meza, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The action made Fine no longer eligible to serve as overseer.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Thiel’s part of the board of overseers for the Hoover Institution.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Prison overseers intended the yards to be safe havens from the cutthroat prison politics that beset most main yards.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Otherwise, Claude might conceal its secrets where its overseers would never think to look.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The Sizzler victory in 2017 was his first as the full time overseer of the team.
    — Shawn Courchesne, courant.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • In fact, the Speaker, Cameron Sexton, called himself at one point an overseer.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Williams is the more animated of the two and gives off a lot of energy, while Martin is more of an overseer.
    — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 27 May 2021
  • While the model still lacks the judgment or taste of its human overseers, executives don’t expect that gap to last long.
    — Harry Booth, Time, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Three caucus overseers face felony charges for their roles in trying to overturn the 2020 election.
    — Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 5 Feb. 2024
  • In other words, Doomsayers see a world of declining resources that needs overseers to divvy them up.
    — Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 20 Mar. 2026

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