How to Use oversight in a Sentence

oversight

noun

• The new manager was given oversight of the project.
• The error was a simple oversight.
• The fact that you didn't get an invitation is surely just an oversight.
• O’Rourke blames both the skill of the craftsmen and the lax oversight of the codes for the continued problem.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2023
• The software on the cars was claimed to have been an error, an oversight.
  — Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 22 May 2025
• When that occurs, the pilots can leave the cockpits and oversight can be from the ground.
  — Michael Barnard, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
• But critics argue the lack of oversight opens the door for abuse.
  — Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 11 Dec. 2024
• The oversight of time zones was assigned to the DOT to help keep track of transportation.
  — Jennifer Sangalang, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2023
• The issue has sought to place greater oversight on the department.
  — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 26 May 2022
• The first meeting of one of the oversight committees was Monday in the city of Monroe.
  — chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2022
• Those who lived through those times say such an oversight comes at our own peril.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2022
• Ariwite said his lack of an apology to the tribe in the letter was an oversight.
  — oregonlive, 24 Oct. 2022
• This is in keeping with a board member’s oversight role.
  — Amy Glynn, Forbes, 11 June 2022
• That the oversight has not been corrected is, perhaps, a sign of his standing in the program.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• Users were storing their funds in a black box and had no oversight into how they were being stored.
  — Roomy Khan, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• The result was no oversight for the bankrupt crypto exchange.
  — Vicky Ge Huang, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2023
• How does the Board execute its oversight of cyber-risks?
  — Betsy Atkins, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
• Still, oversight of Ready to Work by the City Council has been relatively lax.
  — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Dec. 2022
• In April 2021, Sherin asked the oversight commission to allow the project to tap Medicaid funds.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2023
• The idea was to give kids the freedom to buy things on their own, while also allowing parents oversight.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 7 Aug. 2024
• Contractors hired by the company performed the tests, with oversight from the state.
  — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2022
• Now city staff, after consulting with the state oversight agency, are ready to pare down the field of contenders.
  — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2022
• Carlson stepped down from day-to-day oversight of the website after landing his show on Fox News and sold his stake in the outlet in 2020.
  — CBS News, 26 Apr. 2023
• Democrats fear that a unit without proper oversight could lead to problems.
  — Aarón Torres, Dallas News, 9 May 2023
• Some of the public at the meeting spoke out against the DOJ’s potential oversight, concerned the city might rollover when the time came to sign a consent decree.
  — Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 11 Jan. 2024
• State leaders say the court ruling increased the urgency to put state oversight in place.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
• To what extent premiums might rise even with the state’s oversight is unclear.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2022
• Vern Pierson of the oversight, and that Dahl’s children had never been told that she was no longer considered guilty.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2024
• During his rocky tenure at City Hall, in addition to the four lawsuits, he was rebuked in an oversight report for pushing security guards at a migrant shelter then providing false information to cops in ordering the guards arrested.
  — Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 2 Aug. 2025
• The 166-page report from the president’s digital assets working group offered detailed guidance to Congress and federal regulators on everything from crypto oversight to taxation to banking rules.
  — Julia Shapero, The Hill, 1 Aug. 2025