How to Use overshadow in a Sentence

overshadow

verb

• The pitcher's outstanding performance should not overshadow the achievements of the rest of the team.
• The news has been overshadowed by the rest of the details of this.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2023
• Doesn’t try to overshadow them, just stays within the game.
  — Tom Lang, Detroit Free Press, 17 June 2023
• The three days of the 2023 draft, however, were overshadowed by the goings-on of the big league club and its players.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2023
• But most of the time it is overshadowed by the behemoth that is soccer.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• UConn won 76-59, but it was all overshadowed by the afterglow of the women.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 6 Apr. 2023
• And already it has been overshadowed by his first hat trick.
  — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
• Year by year and find by find, Megalosaurus was overshadowed.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
• But on the ground in Gaza, the pause has been overshadowed by the apparently inevitable return to war.
  — Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
• Dublin restaurants have long been overshadowed by the city's thriving nightlife scene.
  — Aoife O'Riordain, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2023
• That leaves investors surprised by the change, and the fear of the unknown can overshadow solid sales and revenue growth.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
• Shades of Charles’ late ex-wife, Diana, whose glamour and drama overshadowed Charles the prince.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
• Simone Biles has overshadowed the sport of gymnastics for the better part of a decade, but hasn’t won an Olympic gold medal since 2016 in Rio.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 30 July 2024
• Will the trials overshadow the 2024 race or shape its outcome?
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2023
• That was six more than the 17 scored by Lance Jones, the Southern Illinois transfer who also gets overshadowed by the two stars on this team.
  — Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Jan. 2024
• If there is anything else that happened at that same time, then sometimes the big event is overshadowed.
  — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2023
• The color alone is a statement that won’t overshadow any stylish outfit.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 3 Apr. 2024
• Al would never allow a player to overshadow the team — or Al.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2022
• One driver’s good day can overshadow the others’ bad ones.
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 May 2022
• Perry’s teammates said the record chase hasn’t overshadowed the team’s success.
  — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 16 Mar. 2023
• On a trip to Indonesia for the Group of 20 Summit, his last day in Bali was overshadowed by a missile crisis.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023
• In a broad field overshadowed by a runaway front-runner, too many choices can mean too few.
  — Rick Klein, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2023
• It’s often overshadowed by flashier cities to the south: New Orleans and the state capital, Baton Rouge.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023
• And not to be overshadowed by all the outdoorsy diversions, art and culture abound in this upscale beach town.
  — Kara Franker, Southern Living, 14 Nov. 2023
• The artistic side didn’t overshadow the message, nor did the message overshadow the art.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
• But the tennis pro was nearly overshadowed by his girlfriend, Paige Lorenze, who was there to cheer him on.
  — Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 28 Aug. 2023
• The crossover has been overshadowed by the flood of more stylish and better-performing EVs that have flooded the market in the years since its release.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 20 Feb. 2024
• But the trip was perhaps overshadowed by what happened after the meetings.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2023
• But Biden’s poor performance overshadowed all that, and Trump largely escaped scrutiny.
  — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 3 Sep. 2024
• Risks to cyclical growth—recessions—remain but are not likely to overshadow fundamental strength.
  — Kristine Gill, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024