How to Use overseas in a Sentence

overseas

1 of 2 adverb

• The troops were sent overseas.
• The Lions have never given up a home game to play overseas.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2023
• Life overseas is not all beach chats and friendly neighbors, though.
  — Yucheng Tang, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
• Six years later, the Ravens and Harbaugh are headed back overseas.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2023
• There is an upside: the tour will be adding new cities to its lineup — including some stops overseas.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 22 Nov. 2023
• About half are army reservists who in the past 10 days have returned to Israel from homes and jobs overseas to help secure the country and fight Hamas.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2023
• That has forced them to search for profits overseas, where there are more buyers willing to pay higher prices.
  — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
• But as conflicts unfold overseas, the fallout in the U.S. is growing more pronounced.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 20 Oct. 2023
• That’s not to say that every big project shooting overseas is safe from the dual actors-writers strike.
  — Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
• And in some cases, spending your golden years overseas comes at a much lower price than staying in the United States.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 29 Feb. 2024
• Part of the reason is that much of Novo Nordisk’s production takes place overseas, for example in the United States.
  — Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• Adele will head overseas to perform a series of shows in Munich, Germany in August.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2024
• What makes our moment rare is that freedom and democracy are under attack, both at home and overseas, at the very same time.
  — USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
• That's because King Charles and Queen Camilla are also heading overseas that week.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2023
• That's because King Charles and Queen Camilla are also heading overseas this week.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
• The two had been in touch since August 2019, with Kwon expressing his intention to seek asylum overseas, Lee said.
  — Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 23 Aug. 2023
• Two days later, according to the indictment, Trump held a meeting with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to discuss an issue overseas.
  — Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
• While the series has done most of its business overseas, domestic still matters.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2023
• For at least the last decade, Martin said, U.S. native turtles have been exported overseas.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• Rugs should be made from natural fibers, but if that rug was shipped in a container from overseas, it was sprayed with pesticide.
  — Catherine Gaugh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2023
• And corporate heads are now speaking up, with some threatening to leave — or expand overseas, rather than at home.
  — Bysarah Jacob, Fortune Europe, 27 Mar. 2024
• Christmas-Kelly went overseas to play, while Kelly returned to Georgia to coach.
  — Chloe Peterson, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2023
• The recall doesn’t affect Bike Plus owners or original Bike owners who bought their bikes overseas.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 11 May 2023
• After taking over the Chinese market, BYD is now trying to expand overseas.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 20 Mar. 2024
• That partnership would help turn sneakers, cheap to make overseas and sold at a high markup, into cultural currency around the world.
  — Megan Twohey, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• There are several things fans should look for going into the fifth week of the season, including some history that could be made overseas.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 8 Oct. 2023
• Tasked with collecting information overseas, Hikade, 46, put her life on the line every day.
  — Jeff Nelson, Peoplemag, 10 May 2023
• The details in the indictment last week point to a different kind of threat, one from overseas aimed at stifling political dissent.
  — Amy Qin, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• But with Russian forces still inside the country and millions of Ukrainians displaced from their homes, fighting on the frontlines, or living overseas, there is no election in sight.
  — Andrew Carey, Olga Voitovych, and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
• The experience ignited her drive to help people — both in her community and overseas.
  — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2024

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overseas

2 of 2 adjective

• The goal of these maps was to help make consumers in the States aware of the overseas locales.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2023
• The statement did not name the men or say whether the arrests were related to the warrants issued for the overseas activists.
  — Henry Austin, NBC News, 8 July 2023
• Fans who had flown in from overseas mixed with elder segments of the local glitterati.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Dec. 2023
• To fight the hardest, a deploying squadron either must bring parts with it, or fall in a stash of spares at the overseas location.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• Sutcliffe, who was also living with Lennon, joined the group for its overseas debut in Hamburg, where the group played more than 100 shows.
  — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 9 Apr. 2024
• So far, overseas Tesla workers in Sweden are making waves after a walk-off in the fall.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2023
• Spending on defense, schools, the National Health Service and overseas aid has been ringfenced for now.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 6 Mar. 2024
• That one-time tax continues to apply to people who buy more than 10% in an overseas business.
  — Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 5 Dec. 2023
• Local producers have resources that the overseas groups may not.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 7 Dec. 2023
• Would overseas expansion turn the U.S. from a republic to an empire?
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2023
• To have both used overseas festival platforms in the last year to warn about mounting censorship.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024
• Elvis’s latest overseas tour in the armed forces begins January 26.
  — Vulture, 9 Nov. 2023
• And today, the King arrived in the country on his first overseas trip since his coronation for a visit that is part official and part private.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 3 June 2023
• One month later, its overseas shipments of the materials fell to zero.
  — Juliana Liu, CNN, 20 Oct. 2023
• These polls were all conducted before his overseas trip to Israel and tonight’s Oval Office address.
  — Mark Murray, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2023
• The Seagull and similar models from China could prove to be a disruptive force in overseas markets.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2024
• Those clerks can begin mailing the ballots to military and overseas voters on Jan. 20, ahead of the state’s March 5 primary election.
  — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2024
• The doctor is accused of failing to drive with due care after returning home from the Chiefs’ overseas matchup in Germany against the Miami Dolphins.
  — Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2024
• He was panned by critics for his performance at an overseas news conference.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• This overseas trip is an amazing opportunity to live in the moment and to form friendships and connections.
  — Amy Dickinson, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
• Many overseas airlines have suspended service to and from Israel.
  — Doug Cameron, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2023
• In her last year of high school, a teacher influenced her to continue her study of dance in Europe, sharing their overseas connections with her.
  — Lance Brownfield, Arkansas Online, 14 Aug. 2023
• The dwindling overseas shipments increased the risk of a downturn in the world's second largest economy due to weakening global demand.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 7 June 2023
• Still another claimed that no Jewish soldiers were on the ship because they had all been exempted from overseas duty.
  — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
• My younger brother, Scott, and I were born in California, between overseas postings.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• The move was also pitched as a way to set free faster-growing overseas operations while the US business was entangled in smoker lawsuits.
  — Andy Hoffman, Fortune Europe, 6 Dec. 2023
• The film has been pre-sold in overseas territories, but currently has no foreign release dates penciled in.
  — Mark Schilling, Variety, 5 June 2023
• Uniqlo made its first attempt at overseas expansion that year, opening four stores in London.
  — Time, 13 Nov. 2023
• For about a year, the agency has been collecting wastewater directly from the lavatories on overseas flights at three to four airports as well as from the communal drain at SFO.
  — Alice Park, Time, 14 June 2023
• The service is the brainchild of Chi Zhang, 34, the founder of Happy Cashier, a virtual-assistant company that was thrust into the spotlight last week, when a social media post about the overseas workers went viral.
  — Stefanos Chen, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024