How to Use overact in a Sentence

overact

verb

• Wiyoko is unable to match her, always overacting with gestures galore.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 15 Dec. 2025
• On-screen, the speech’s prestige can overwhelm its existential subject matter, and the passage tends to get overacted.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2025
• Adrien Brody can’t stop overacting in a commercial for TurboTax.
  — Dee-Ann Durbin, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2026
• His presence is fresh, empathetic, often hypnotic, and never overacted.
  — Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2025
• Snook and Lacy, who display such sharp instincts in their best work, seem to have been directed to overact; cameras freeze on their exaggeratedly bewildered or angry or devastated expressions, putting exclamation points at the end of too many scenes.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 6 Nov. 2025