Example sentences for: overrated

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

  • 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.

  • In a story titled "Richard Simmons' Sad Lonely Life," the Globe reports that the flamboyant exercise guru prefers food to sex, which he says is "overrated."

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

  • Shaw read it and responded enthusiastically: “I urged as strongly as I could the reprinting of Professor Wilson's treatise in a modestly priced edition baited for the British book market with a preface by myself: an overrated attraction commercially, but one which still imposes on London publishers.”

  • Robert Wise's 1963 original, based on Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House , is overrated, but it manages to evoke the eeriest aspect of Jackson's fiction: the way the characters' neuroses acquire an inexorable life of their own and threaten to eat them alive.


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