How to Use overshot in a Sentence

overshot

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  • Coan took a deep shot toward the end zone but overshot Braden Lenzy.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Stallings was alone in the lead when play resumed, but his second shot on the 18th found the water, and his follow-up overshot the green.
    — Brian Hall, Star Tribune, 22 July 2021
  • That thing might have overshot a punter lined up seven or eight yards deeper.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 22 Nov. 2020
  • On the second play of the game, Jackson overshot Marquise Brown on a potential 73-yard touchdown.
    — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 20 Sep. 2021
  • The plane was going too fast to return to LaGuardia, and would have likely overshot the runway without the engines working in reverse to slow the plane.
    — Allen St. John, Popular Mechanics, 15 Jan. 2019
  • Because Percy overshot its landing site before settling down, the team was able to get a crystal clear view of the landing site from above.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2021
  • After running in the top-five over the first couple stints during the 500, VeeKay overshot his pit box before the end of the first half of the race, hitting one of his crew members, and was forced to take a stop-and-hold penalty.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Yet for all the enjoyably detailed work, the play remains stubbornly tiny, as if Stephens, aiming small, overshot.
    — New York Times, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Buyers stayed on the sidelines because a market that has overshot can always overshoot even further in the short run, but the bond yield wasn’t a reflection of the real risks to Italy.
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 30 May 2018
  • Some overshot and landed near Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
    — Sebastien Roblin, Forbes, 25 May 2021
  • Congress aimed to fully replace the average worker’s pay, but its formula overshot the mark.
    — New York Times, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Quarterback Joe Milton missed numerous open throws and overshot Ronnie Bell on what would've been an easy touchdown.
    — Orion Sang, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2020
  • Surging investments in the hot area overshot demand, as sometimes happens in business.
    — Collin Eaton and Saabira Chaudhuri, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Di Maio also suggested there would not be a safeguard clause that would trigger spending cuts in the event the deficit target was overshot, as Italian media had reported.
    — Colleen Barry, The Seattle Times, 13 Nov. 2018
  • This means that the change in a prediction market price tells you how much each candidate overshot or undershot those expectations.
    — Justin Wolfers, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2016
  • But Munger estimates developers overshot demand by about 1,900 units last year in metro Denver.
    — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Kumar noted that some models, such as the one from the University of Washington, had overshot on some of its estimates for Connecticut during the initial spring surge.
    — Alex Putterman, courant.com, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Pretty much every major RTX 2000-series card overshot with proprietary promises instead of offering brute force worth its inflated costs.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Early returns from public companies indicate that’s an overshot.
    — Ben Casselman and Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2018
  • An equally convincing argument exists that the Pac-12 overshot (and over-priced?) its fan base by creating a seven-feed network without the distribution leverage provided by a major programming partner.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 11 May 2017
  • But whatever the dynamic, scientists and health officials are starting to wonder whether early prognostications about herd immunity overshot the mark.
    — Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Still, other scientists believe that Britain overshot the available evidence, potentially leaving older people and health-care workers without the full protection of two vaccine doses amid dreadful wintertime surges.
    — Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Simona Gambarini, markets economist at Capital Economics, thinks yields may have overshot.
    — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 21 May 2021
  • Coan took a deep shot toward the end zone but overshot Braden Lenzy.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Stallings was alone in the lead when play resumed, but his second shot on the 18th found the water, and his follow-up overshot the green.
    — Brian Hall, Star Tribune, 22 July 2021
  • That thing might have overshot a punter lined up seven or eight yards deeper.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 22 Nov. 2020
  • On the second play of the game, Jackson overshot Marquise Brown on a potential 73-yard touchdown.
    — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 20 Sep. 2021
  • The plane was going too fast to return to LaGuardia, and would have likely overshot the runway without the engines working in reverse to slow the plane.
    — Allen St. John, Popular Mechanics, 15 Jan. 2019
  • Because Percy overshot its landing site before settling down, the team was able to get a crystal clear view of the landing site from above.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2021
  • After running in the top-five over the first couple stints during the 500, VeeKay overshot his pit box before the end of the first half of the race, hitting one of his crew members, and was forced to take a stop-and-hold penalty.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Apr. 2021

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