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Example sentences for: overuse

How can you use “overuse” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

If they have lost that power through overuse, it's perfectly plausible to say that their capacity to deter aggressive behavior has weakened as well.
The overuse of antibiotics in the clinic and for agricultural uses has resulted in a tremendous selective pressure for antibiotic resistant bacteria.
They have to contend with so much Hollywood hokum that they're driven to overuse of overwrought literary pyrotechnics and banal humor.
The term our times and its portentous relative our time (as in "one of the most important movies/books/recordings of our time ") are rhetorically vast but temporally indeterminate, even as they become trivialized by overuse.
Criticizing Clinton's and Blair's overuse of Third Reich analogies in their anti-Milosevic rhetoric, Ferguson said it would not do for them to say that the current airstrikes against Serbia are based on the lessons of the past.