Example sentences for: overrated

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

  • But somewhere along the way, he may have absorbed Reagan's lesson that while Americans like to gather Facts, the power Facts have to settle important questions is vastly overrated.

  • The most overrated invention of the millennium is the spacecraft."

  • The probabilistic nature of computational analyses is well realized (and at times, perhaps, overrated) by most researchers, probably because explicit calculation of probability or likelihood is at the core of most widely used computer methods for sequence and structure analyses.

  • That assessment will overrate Paul's post-Beatles output--in particular, I'm guessing, the music he makes next, just as Tug of War was overrated in the wake of John's murder--and underrate his work in the Beatles, an explosion of pop craftsmanship without precedence, overshadowed by Lennon's mediagenic personality and subsequent martyrdom.

  • The concepts of overrated and underrated inevitably intersect with this discussion, because to be described as either of these things one must display a degree both of knownness and of hypeness.


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