How to Use overt in a Sentence

overt

adjective

• The most overt sign is the eye, which should be plump and clear, or nearly clear.
  — Domenica Marchetti, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• The episode takes place during Passover, and the story of Moses and the plagues becomes an overt metaphor.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2023
• There are many nods to it, some pretty overt, in our show.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 July 2021
• And there’s been an increase in overt bigotry here of late.
  — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2023
• The last alleged overt act was the day in 2022 when Arabella died.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2024
• The United States took no overt steps to protect her flight.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2022
• Still, Coalition straddles that line in a much more overt way.
  — Tony Bradley, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
• The speech was the most overt call for some kind of gun control that McConaughey has made so far.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 7 June 2022
• There isn’t yet any level of overt panic about what the future holds.
  — Ben Makuch, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2023
• The film sifts through all of this with clear eyes, imagination, and a lack of overt judgment.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2023
• In the hymns of Night Divine, Fallon’s Christian roots are even more overt.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2021
• There was an overt sense of grievance in the speeches of Thompson and Beatty.
  — cleveland, 1 Aug. 2021
• Just a few blocks away, there is an even more overt Mussolini homage.
  — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2021
• That’s why there are no overt references to the movie in the name, and the touches on the first floor of the restaurant are pretty subtle.
  — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2024
• The speech was an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2023
• Think of them as a counter to the overt sexiness of the midriff trend; a subtler way to emphasize the female form.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2021
• Smithers pines for his boss, who remains oblivious even as the come-ons grow more overt.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
• There are no overt love stories, fat snowflakes swirling around fake sets or ugly sweaters (at least, not too many).
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
• Its subtle and overt expansion of White supremacy is to blame here.
  — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 1 Dec. 2022
• Apart from one good joke at the expense of Christopher Columbus, the show’s politics are not overt.
  — Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• But, beyond the bluster, some of the activity here is not so overt.
  — ABC News, 20 Feb. 2022
• Innuendo is cool and all, but Sam Smith is ready to be a bit more overt with their latest track.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 13 Jan. 2023
• In the more shadowy corners of the crowdsourcing industry, the use of child workers is overt.
  — WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
• There appears to be little overt racial content in these works or his still-life paintings.
  — John Wilmerding, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
• People have come to expect an overt message about Black life when Jordan Peele makes a film.
  — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2022
• The company was suspicious, but this was the first overt notice that our place of work was corrupt.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
• The hostility from the customer and the food store workers was becoming more overt as the minutes ticked by.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2024
• In some ways, legal weed will have a limited overt effect.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 28 June 2023
• But even that latter overt connection is in the service of a gag more than any real canon-building.
  — James Grebey, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
• There were no overt signs of military activity in the area.
  — Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024