How to Use overt in a Sentence

overt

adjective

• And this is just the most kind of overt and strange version of it.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2019
• The most overt sign is the eye, which should be plump and clear, or nearly clear.
  — Domenica Marchetti, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• The episode takes place during Passover, and the story of Moses and the plagues becomes an overt metaphor.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2023
• But the sexism isn’t just overt in how the press talks about these women.
  — Melanie Hamlett, Glamour, 17 Apr. 2019
• There are many nods to it, some pretty overt, in our show.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 July 2021
• And there’s been an increase in overt bigotry here of late.
  — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2023
• The last alleged overt act was the day in 2022 when Arabella died.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2024
• There's a nice jolt but not jitters or an overt shock to the senses.
  — Louryn Strampe, Wired News, 18 July 2025
• The United States took no overt steps to protect her flight.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2022
• Among them now are a mix of both overt and more subtle mentions of QAnon.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 19 Aug. 2020
• First, the overt reason for the meal is to celebrate the Jewish Passover.
  — Robert E. Gordon, WSJ, 13 July 2018
• In other states, the effort to block mail-in voting is even more overt.
  — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Aug. 2020
• Still, Coalition straddles that line in a much more overt way.
  — Tony Bradley, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
• The speech was the most overt call for some kind of gun control that McConaughey has made so far.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 7 June 2022
• There isn’t yet any level of overt panic about what the future holds.
  — Ben Makuch, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2023
• The film sifts through all of this with clear eyes, imagination, and a lack of overt judgment.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2023
• In the hymns of Night Divine, Fallon’s Christian roots are even more overt.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2021
• There was an overt sense of grievance in the speeches of Thompson and Beatty.
  — cleveland, 1 Aug. 2021
• Just a few blocks away, there is an even more overt Mussolini homage.
  — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2021
• But in hindsight, the team’s overt desire to get younger made the move somewhat inevitable.
  — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 13 May 2025
• Chairman Powell was overt about this in his Aug. 27 speech.
  — Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Sep. 2020
• The matter was determined by a special agent to not be an overt threat to Pruitt.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 8 May 2018
• That’s why there are no overt references to the movie in the name, and the touches on the first floor of the restaurant are pretty subtle.
  — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2024
• The speech was an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2023
• The third episode made that overt when, in the final moments, the coven of witches diminished by one.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2024
• Your husband is hurling veiled or overt threats against you.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2020
• Your husband is hurling veiled or overt threats against you.
  — cleveland, 27 Sep. 2020
• Think of them as a counter to the overt sexiness of the midriff trend; a subtler way to emphasize the female form.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2021
• There was a Lynchian quality to the podcast, a fun-house-size absurdism that offset its overt offensiveness.
  — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025
• This tension is more pronounced in Death Stranding 2 than in the original, despite the sequel’s overt political arguments.
  — G Kirilloff, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025