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Example sentences for: overt
How can you use “overt” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
1. Overt Cynicism.
I've tried hints from subtle to overt that I don't really approve of what he's doing, but I don't want to kick him out.
So of course you are right; "simple" mechanical failure is scarier than terrorism because it connotes a level of indifference that is no less evil than overt terrorism but far more insidious.
A few carp about the film's cloying, overt patriotism--and the avoidance of the politics and protests that surrounded the war--with the most vocal dissenters saying it "restart[s] the John Wayne-ing of Vietnam" (Michael Atkinson, the Village Voice ). For most, though, the stories, told by some 20 captured airmen, speak eloquently and powerfully.
Of note, his recent weight loss is presumably due to overt hyperglycemia and glycosuria, further underestimating his true weight increase.
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