Example sentences for: overpaid

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

  • I can't speak about the CBO study, but I've seen the one from RAND, and its conclusions are more complicated than he suggests--that junior enlisted servicemen are overpaid compared to their civilian counterparts, senior enlisted are slightly underpaid, junior officers moderately underpaid, and senior officers seriously underpaid.

  • You do have to marvel at the ability of Prada-clad celebrities to sit at a $500-a-plate dinner at the Beverly Hills Hotel and decry overpaid CEOs and rich people in general as if they were an alien species.

  • It apparently never occurred to even one of these overpaid scribes to eliminate Hopkins' rueful realization that he'd "never write the great American novel"--no kidding, given his flagrantly Welsh accent.

  • It's important to see that the problem here is not, no matter what General Motors says, that U.S. workers are overpaid.

  • Even there, though, the magic of the Internet auction helps out one last time: He who has overpaid for Faye Dunaway's eye mask can enjoy it for a bit and then put it right back up for auction.


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