Example sentences for: overlook

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

  • But Professor Steiner's rhetoric and video-camera style were so persuasive that it was easy to overlook the fact that his argument (or part of it) was based on a complete misstatement of the facts.

  • Andrew, please don't send your guidebooks off to Fresh Kills just yet (did they overlook this site?

  • Present-day conservatives often overlook how much he stressed political participation, marveling at the United States as the "one country in the world which, day in, day out, makes use of an unlimited freedom of political association," which, in turn, encouraged a more general "taste for association."

  • An additional problem with focusing on mtDNA (or any other molecular) divergence as a primary criterion for recognizing species is that it will lead us to overlook new or rapidly diverged species, such as might arise through divergent selection or polyploidy, and thus to conclude that speciation requires long-term isolation.

  • While we're about it, we should not overlook Coleridge's poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), not “Rhyme,” or Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1811), not “Child,” or Ruskin's Arrows of the Chace (1880), not “Chase.”


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