How to Use overt in a Sentence

overt

adjective

• There is no villain and no overt harm.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
• For men, fashion pieces aren’t quite as overt.
  — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 20 Jan. 2026
• And this is just the most kind of overt and strange version of it.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2019
• Lee is less overt, but the building does play a key role in the crime.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 4 Sep. 2025
• The final two lines are the most overt and chilling of all.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
• The most overt sign is the eye, which should be plump and clear, or nearly clear.
  — Domenica Marchetti, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Mitchell sees these overt homages as a form of transparency.
  — Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2025
• There's a nice jolt but not jitters or an overt shock to the senses.
  — Louryn Strampe, Wired News, 18 July 2025
• But the sexism isn’t just overt in how the press talks about these women.
  — Melanie Hamlett, Glamour, 17 Apr. 2019
• Still, Coalition straddles that line in a much more overt way.
  — Tony Bradley, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
• There isn’t yet any level of overt panic about what the future holds.
  — Ben Makuch, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2023
• Just a few blocks away, there is an even more overt Mussolini homage.
  — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2021
• There’s an overt praising of police as a moral arbiter.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
• In other states, the effort to block mail-in voting is even more overt.
  — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Aug. 2020
• Smithers pines for his boss, who remains oblivious even as the come-ons grow more overt.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
• Over time, overt killings gave way to imprisonment.
  — Karl Vick, Time, 16 Mar. 2026
• There are no overt love stories, fat snowflakes swirling around fake sets or ugly sweaters (at least, not too many).
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
• If so, the risk that it was spent on overt politics increases.
  — Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2026
• But this is what overt propaganda looks like in a platform age.
  — Renée Diresta, Time, 2 Apr. 2026
• Among them now are a mix of both overt and more subtle mentions of QAnon.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 19 Aug. 2020
• The drums are the most overt scaling-up device throughout the album.
  — Mitch Therieau, Pitchfork, 8 Apr. 2026
• The books themselves were frequently racist, in ways that were both overt and more subtle.
  — James Factora, Them., 23 Sep. 2025
• The film sifts through all of this with clear eyes, imagination, and a lack of overt judgment.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2023
• But in hindsight, the team’s overt desire to get younger made the move somewhat inevitable.
  — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 13 May 2025
• There were no observed overt assaultive acts or movements displayed by [the man] on the video.
  — Josh Wood, The Courier-Journal, 18 Feb. 2025
• Romantic in an overt way, and unashamed of its provocative nature.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Feb. 2026
• So there isn't much overt, brash Nets bashing -- at least in the Gansey household.
  — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• An overt sweetness had our tasters craving something more savory.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 11 Feb. 2026
• Is that an overt reference to being 18, now?
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 7 Apr. 2026
• The reason for that change is because the subtext of that collar becomes more overt.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2021