Example sentences for: overkill

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

  • Next Week: The Clinton Scandal--Media Overkill?

  • The movie "reeks of film-student overkill" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). It would only be allowed to "ooz[e] out of Miramax's storeroom" in the otherwise fallow month of January, says the Village Voice 's Amy Taubin: "[I]ts devices are too shopworn to allow for a personal or original point of view."

  • Skeptics suggested that the overkill of millennium hoopla was actually the greatest threat to our collective sanity.

  • In this era of Monica overkill, it's not surprising to find a cult of a writer as restrained as McPhee.

  • Sharif had been understanding, while commenting on American "overkill."


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