How to Use overwrite in a Sentence

overwrite

verb

• The author has a tendency to overwrite.
• Moncrieff tends to overwrite a lot, and Proust doesn’t do that.
  — Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
• How did this backdoor gain the power to overwrite files on the device?
  — Christian Espinosa, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
• Video footage can also be overwritten.
  — Miami Herald, 17 June 2026
• The current standard only records two hours and then overwrites the recording.
  — Marisa Garcia, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• This provides loop recording to overwrite the oldest footage with new content.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 9 Sep. 2021
• Trust that your artist can fill in the gaps and tell the story the best way possible; no need to overwrite to explain things.
  — Goldie Chan, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• Please note that restoring a backup might overwrite the existing data on your phone.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2024
• Tools that overwrite a person’s voice flatten resumes quickly, but the structure still needs to be there.
  — K. H. Koehler, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025
• Runes in gear can now be overwritten by other Runes (the old Runes are destroyed).
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
• By that point, at least one nearby business had overwritten its surveillance footage.
  — Arkansas Online, 19 Feb. 2026
• By that point, at least one nearby business had overwritten its surveillance footage.
  — ABC News, 17 Feb. 2026
• By that point, at least one nearby business had overwritten its surveillance footage.
  — Jim Mustian, Twin Cities, 18 Feb. 2026
• Here the reviews were mixed, with critics sometimes citing him for overwriting.
  — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 6 June 2024
• The first option would create a new backup that will overwrite the previous backup.
  — Toby Grey, BGR, 31 Aug. 2022
• This new backup will overwrite and encrypt your previous backups.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 20 June 2021
• Keep the language appropriate for the topic and don’t overwrite.
  — Yasmin Walter, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• That's because an executive action, on its own, can't undo or overwrite laws.
  — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 30 Jan. 2025
• This includes storing your clips for 60 days (older clips are overwritten by newer ones).
  — Dallas News, 27 June 2019
• The hard drive of my brain is constantly overwriting itself, sacrificing the old for the new.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 2 July 2017
• The new bug will be harder to exploit in that way, as the ability to delete files is less useful than the ability to overwrite files.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2018
• What if the other clichés — of dice cast and Rubicons crossed — have finally overwritten this one?
  — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
• My memories of particular meals have been overwritten by the ravenous après-ski hunger that then drove me.
  — Andrew Fedorov, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2026
• Old secure deletion utilities used to make a point of overwriting a file’s disk sectors multiple times.
  — PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
• Videos and photos are shared and reshared online, sometimes in ways that mask or overwrite the file’s original metadata.
  — Leila Barghouty, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2022
• The two-hour limit means that the recorder may be quickly overwritten even on short flights, especially if there are any delays on the runway.
  — Mark Walker, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• The book is so beautifully written, and elegant, but funny, and not overwritten at all.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 5 Dec. 2023
• The Central Jail usually begins to overwrite such data after about nine months, due to tech.
  — Jaelyn Rodriguez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
• This is not a reason to revise or overwrite sustainability data.
  — Martha Amram, Forbes.com, 20 Feb. 2026
• The surveillance system was set to overwrite data every 72 hours, and by the time the police accessed it, the footage was gone.
  — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2026