How to Use overarching in a Sentence

overarching

adjective

• Computer downtime is an overarching problem in all departments.
• The one overarching theme is none of the photos were planned out.
  — Leor Galil, Chicago Reader, 13 Dec. 2017
• Truth is this year’s overarching theme.
  — Annika Pham, Variety, 16 Jan. 2026
• That’s one of the overarching goals of this move — and all of our policy moves.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2019
• There are overarching acronyms, sub acronyms and offshoot acronyms.
  — Tara Donaldson, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2026
• But the lack of a concrete, overarching deal is still a problem.
  — Kerry Brown, Time, 31 Oct. 2025
• It was never meant to be part of my overarching journey.
  — Monique Wilson, Glamour, 25 Sep. 2025
• While there’s some sense of an overarching style, no two rooms look exactly alike.
  — Alex Bazeley, Curbed, 16 Aug. 2018
• So Far, perhaps hints at an overarching theme of, well, the end.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2022
• Its overarching theme is letting go and learning from pain.
  — Audrey Gibbs, USA Today, 1 Jan. 2026
• Many of its overarching goals are laudable.
  — Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2025
• This is the overarching theme for, frankly, pools and everything else.
  — Ashley Laderer, SELF, 6 Aug. 2020
• Throughout all your albums, there’s an overarching theme to the lyrics.
  — Annie Zaleski, Variety, 25 Feb. 2022
• That, right there, is the overarching issue of the midterm elections.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2026
• But the overarching taste of the evening’s results was bitter.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 6 Feb. 2023
• Those deals would help this team prep for a playoff run without veering too far off track from the overarching process.
  — The Athletic Nhl Staff, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
• The overarching question is whether these price increases will stick — and for how long.
  — Washington Post, 12 June 2021
• That feeling had ebbed some through this choppy season, both in the game-to-game and more overarching sense.
  — Kansas City Star, 24 Nov. 2025
• Some overarching thought beginning there in those blue eyes.
  — David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
• The overarching problem is that there is a limited supply of crews and trucks to pick up the waste.
  — David Smiley, miamiherald, 28 Sep. 2017
• And that series has an overarching thesis to it or title that connects all these pieces.
  — Erin Lassner, HollywoodReporter, 22 Aug. 2025
• The overarching ideal is to help make life better for constituents.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2025
• There is no overarching solution for the problems on that side.
  — Aaron Heisen, Daily News, 24 Feb. 2026
• Musgraves spoke to the overarching themes of the new album as part of the announcement.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 11 Mar. 2026
• Both are a far cry from the larger, overarching stories that have defined the series.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 23 Sep. 2018
• The last of these seems to be the overarching thesis of Renegades, and of both of their careers.
  — David Klion, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2021
• The overarching idea was that James Bond has had his heart broken and his mojo is down.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 1 Nov. 2021
• Currently, nobody can even point to who is in charge of the overarching effort.
  — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2022
• The overarching objective for him is to keep 85 young adults hungry from one week to the next.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2020
• The first is that Roseman’s overarching approach remained the same from one year to the next.
  — Mike Sielski, Philly.com, 25 Jan. 2018