Examples of overshoot in a Sentence
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.
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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
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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
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“Overshoot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overshoot. Accessed 18 Oct. 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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