Examples of overshoot in a Sentence
The plane overshot the runway.
Sometimes we overshoot our time limits.
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Net income for the quarter stood at $137 million, overshooting EA’s projection between $73 million and $117 million.
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Jennifer Maas, Variety, 28 Oct. 2025
Landing anything on the moon isn’t easy, as demonstrated by Apollo 11’s nail-biting touchdown, in which the Lunar Module Eagle overshot the landing site leaving only minutes of fuel to find a safe landing spot, as well as by recent Athena mission overturned landings.
—Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
The Boeing 737-800 operated by Jeju Air belly-landed at South Korea’s Muan International Airport without its landing gear deployed on December 29, overshot the runway and burst into flames after hitting a concrete structure, killing all but two of the 181 people on board.
—Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
Notre Dame didn’t do anything to make Reed overshoot his target, the quarterback just missed.
—Pete Sampson, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
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Jennifer Maas, Variety, 28 Oct. 2025
Landing anything on the moon isn’t easy, as demonstrated by Apollo 11’s nail-biting touchdown, in which the Lunar Module Eagle overshot the landing site leaving only minutes of fuel to find a safe landing spot, as well as by recent Athena mission overturned landings.
—Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
The Boeing 737-800 operated by Jeju Air belly-landed at South Korea’s Muan International Airport without its landing gear deployed on December 29, overshot the runway and burst into flames after hitting a concrete structure, killing all but two of the 181 people on board.
—Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
Notre Dame didn’t do anything to make Reed overshoot his target, the quarterback just missed.
—Pete Sampson, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Overshoot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overshoot. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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overshoot
verb
over·shoot
ˌō-vər-ˈshüt 
overshot
-ˈshät
; overshooting
; overshooting
1
: to miss by going beyond
the plane overshot the runway
2
: to shoot over or beyond
overshot the target
Medical Definition
overshoot
noun
over·shoot
ˈō-vər-ˌshüt
: a rapid change in electrical potential and reversal of polarity that occurs during an action potential when a cell or tissue is stimulated
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