How to Use overshoot in a Sentence

overshoot

verb
  • The plane overshot the runway.
  • Sometimes we overshoot our time limits.
  • Ziegler overshoots the sweet spot where her play should have ended.
    — F. Kathleen Foley, latimes.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Coming in amid strong winds and heavy rain, the plane overshot the runway.
    — Zeynep Bilginsoy, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Feb. 2020
  • That might be overshooting it a little bit.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • The mid-size business jet overshot its landing and went sliding past the runway’s end.
    — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Both days had overshot an earlier record in 2024.
    — Rajesh Kumar Singh, Bloomberg, 27 Apr. 2026
  • In Texas, a cargo plane overshot the runway during takeoff and caught fire.
    — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Or, it was supposed to go to his brother — but Jason overshot it, and a fan caught the ball instead.
    — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 1 June 2025
  • The purpose of the pardon is to allow for a fudge when the legal system has misfired or overshot the mark.
    — Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Kizer stepped up in the pocket and fired their way, overshooting everybody.
    — cleveland.com, 20 Sep. 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
  • But the picture could change rapidly if central bankers overshoot in their zeal to control inflation.
    — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 16 June 2022
  • Notre Dame didn’t do anything to make Reed overshoot his target, the quarterback just missed.
    — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • An overshooting top occurs when a cluster of clouds pushes through the anvil and reaches the lower stratosphere.
    — Mary Wasson, Austin American Statesman, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Stroud also overshot a wide-open Collins late in the first half — a completion would have set up Houston for points.
    — Mike Defabo, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The question is whether the slowdown in the economy’s growth will overshoot and become a recession.
    — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Nick Viall may have overshot his budget on a push present for fiancée Natalie Joy.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
  • This means not undershooting to the point of looking passive and not overshooting to the point of looking like a poser.
    — Gorick Ng, CNBC, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Even if the fundamentals are pointing to a profit bonanza, share prices can overshoot.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 19 May 2026
  • 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
  • Schultz was intending the pass for Colin Vieth but overshot his outstretched hand.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The actor/pilot who is well-known for crashing his plane onto a golf course and overshooting a runway is trying to persuade us to buy a car?
    — Paul Sullivan, Sun Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Swift recoveries also tend to overshoot.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 4 June 2026
  • This means not undershooting to the point of looking clueless and not overshooting to the point of looking overbearing.
    — Gorick Ng, CNBC, 26 Jan. 2026
  • 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

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