How to Use overt in a Sentence

overt

adjective

• 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
• 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 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
• The speech was an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2023
• 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
• Its subtle and overt expansion of White supremacy is to blame here.
  — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 1 Dec. 2022
• Apart from one good joke at the expense of Christopher Columbus, the show’s politics are not overt.
  — Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• Innuendo is cool and all, but Sam Smith is ready to be a bit more overt with their latest track.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 13 Jan. 2023
• In the more shadowy corners of the crowdsourcing industry, the use of child workers is overt.
  — WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
• The hostility from the customer and the food store workers was becoming more overt as the minutes ticked by.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2024
• In some ways, legal weed will have a limited overt effect.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 28 June 2023
• These Pacers are too young and impressionable to be involved in an overt tank job.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Apr. 2023
• Sometimes the harmful intent was more overt, Reuters reports.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 7 Mar. 2023
• The bling is a bit more overt on Billions, to convey just how far Axelrod has come from his humble working-class roots.
  — Jay Cheshes, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2023
• Even as graveyards have steadily filled across Ukraine, there has been little overt criticism of the size of the losses or the government’s handling of the war.
  — Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• But Believer compounds that failure by trying to steer clear of the overt Christian mythology of the genre.
  — Vulture, 6 Oct. 2023
• Most of the imaging data to train Sybil didn’t contain overt signs of cancer, since early-stage lung cancer is in small portions of the lung and can be hard for the naked eye to spot.
  — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
• In a later version, the committee made slight word changes to satisfy the channels but added a more overt racial contrast.
  — Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2022
• But as of Thursday afternoon, there was no overt sign of a large-scale military response.
  — Huizhong Wu, ajc, 6 Apr. 2023
• Liver, when cooked expertly, has a tendency to become creamy and lose its overt iron taste.
  — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• There’s a certain level of anonymity and secrecy that people love and respect, but without the overt mind tricks.
  — Josh Chesler, Spin, 23 Aug. 2023
• Students that had no idea what generative AI is are now going to be shown it, openly, by the overt actions of a teacher and their schools.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
• But this album, like it or not, was definitely more overt and pointed.
  — Ryan Reed, SPIN, 4 May 2023
• This is the first time where someone who’s such an overt fan, but also a music business professional, gets to have their hands on the wheel and even help Pearl Jam write songs.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 19 Mar. 2024
• For casual racing fans, the most overt results of this plan would be noticed on future Preakness Days.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2024
• In an overt campaign by the fans, Kasten has been confronted with the appeal daily during his walks around the stadium.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2023
• What about the more overt persecution of comedy that Nesteroff traces?
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024