Example sentences for: overtly

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

  • No, he writes, they went overtly nuclear to achieve status . And when poor self-esteem is the root problem, conventional medicine doesn't work.

  • That system, the creation of the management guru W. Edwards Deming, replaces overtly bureaucratic control with self-managing work teams and an emphasis on a "common vision."

  • "For those who have spent years of adulthood circling around questions of faith, it may be a little jarring to witness Trisha's hasty conversion," says Rebecca Ascher-Walsh in Entertainment Weekly . Most critics describe it as a departure from King's usual style--it's overtly religious and a mere 250 pages long.

  • Suppose, then, that when Starr approached him, Taylor had strung the prosecutor along, not overtly lying, but milking him for information while only pretending to be interested in the job.

  • is overtly political.


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