The plane overshot the runway.
Sometimes we overshoot our time limits.
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The mistake in the past six months has been to show too much valuation sensitivity or ask whether the AI excitement might have overshot.—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025 Both Fleetwood and DeChambeau overshot the green with their second shots on the 16th, signaling a clear sign that nerves were still buzzing.—Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Sep. 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 The mid-size business jet overshot its landing and went sliding past the runway’s end.—Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for overshoot
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