How to Use overt in a Sentence

overt

adjective
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  • 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
  • The third episode made that overt when, in the final moments, the coven of witches diminished by one.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Up to this point, Blanco’s decade-long career has been defined by a much more overt type of storm.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 28 June 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
  • There were no overt signs of military activity in the area.
    — Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2024

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