Example sentences for: overlook

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

  • To compare the collectors of Wellerisms to brick-wall comedians is to overlook a generational, if not historical and unfortunate shift in humor.

  • He's asking us to overlook it.

  • Low-rise apartment blocks, unpretentious restaurants, and hotels overlook the palm-lined Paseo Marítimo, a promenade furnished with park benches, flower displays, and a little playground.

  • Across the board, in fact, investors are willing to overlook short-term losses due to strikes if they feel that a company's hard line will pay off in lower costs down the road.

  • (Meanwhile we should not overlook that hyrcan major is also a fine portmanteau word, with its references to Hyrcania, a province of the ancient Persian and Parthian empires, and Ursa Major, the Great Bear constellation.)


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