Example sentences for: overlook

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

  • This causes them to focus on the Republican themes Clinton rejected (cuts in Medicare, education, and the environment) and overlook the ones he co-opted (crime, family values, budget-balancing).

  • Still, it is useful to note a few things that journalists are likely to overlook or pay little or no heed.

  • They're so impressed by Bloomfield's adversarial stance toward celebrity culture that they overlook the main achievement of the film, which is (here Culturebox must repeat herself): to air accusations of murder without offering evidence that the accused is guilty of anything other than being an ambitious loudmouth and drug user.

  • In a 1995 tape of an NFL Players Association meeting obtained by the New York Times , an association official boasts of having secretly convinced the NFL to overlook 16 positive drug tests.

  • Don’t overlook Acorn Street — the prettiest of them all — a cobbled lane so narrow that cars can’t park here to spoil a photographer’s picture.


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