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
• The courts did not reach a conclusion on whether the state statute was overreaching.
  — Ralph Ellis, CNN, 3 Apr. 2018
• In deciding the case at all, Kagan said the court overreached.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 30 June 2023
• Mayor, this is a jobs killer, the worst kind of government overreach.
  — Greg Jefferson, ExpressNews.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• Are investors overreaching as the A.I. hype curve peaks?
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 2 July 2023
• This hardly feels like the time, though, to be the thought contrarian or overreach.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2023
• And sellers who have tracked the years-long upswing might now be overreaching.
  — OregonLive.com, 28 Dec. 2017
• That is, opposed to government overreach against the slave owners right to own slaves ..
  — For Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 14 Apr. 2024
• Some of the stuff hasn’t lasted, like the idea that God punishes people who are overreaching by causing them to have the plague.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 18 Sep. 2017
• In the case of Foster, the Republicans might have overreached with the socialist thing.
  — Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 2 July 2019
• And overreach by the DEA is destroying tens of thousands of patients’ lives for no good reason.
  — STAT, 28 June 2019
• Meanwhile, 40% of voters said Democrats did not overreach.
  — Nic Garcia, The Denver Post, 25 July 2019
• The all-encompassing nature of the ban makes it even worse, in Alito's view, due to overreach.
  — Joe Mullin, Ars Technica, 19 June 2017
• The legend of Jordan is under earnest assault, a story line that may overreach the re-rematch (three-match?) of the Cavs and Warriors.
  — Bernie Lincicome, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2017
• Some commenters have dismissed the case as police overreach.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• And the streamers have overreached and recaptured too much value.
  — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2023
• Judicial overreach in Madrid will not conceal that for long.
  — The Economist, 19 Oct. 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
• Regardless of the intentions, some feel the bill might be overreaching.
  — Andrew Nicla, azcentral, 7 Mar. 2018
• The conviction among his critics that Sessions is racist has sometimes led them to overreach.
  — Molly Ball, Time, 29 Mar. 2018
• The central risk of admitting this publicly isn’t overreach so much as over-promising.
  — Brian Beutler, New Republic, 22 May 2017
• Still, the Republicans could overreach and give Democrats an opening.
  — Richard Galant, CNN, 20 Nov. 2022
• Basically this is a struggle to define what is within the purview of oversights and what is overreach.
  — Fox News, 22 May 2018
• The food industry calls the rules government overreach.
  — Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
• 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 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
• This usually happens through governing boards and trustees who overreach.
  — Isaac Kamola, The Conversation, 29 July 2024
• Iglesias’s provocative score offers subtle hints at the truth without ever overreaching.
  — Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024