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 this week.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
• That's because King Charles and Queen Camilla are also heading overseas that week.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 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
• The suspect's release added to the mystery surrounding Woll's death, who was killed as tensions and antisemitic attacks were on the rise with the Israel-Hamas war raging overseas.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 14 Nov. 2023
• Looking at his online family tree, my cousin was born in 1945, his father served overseas in the navy during WWII, and his grandfather lived in the same town as his mother.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 15 May 2023

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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
• As cheaper overseas imports put Hawaiian plantations out of business in the end of the 20th century, that land sat untended.
  — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024