overreaching

Example Sentences

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“Lion”—Garth Davis’s adoption drama, based on a true story, has two contests in the bag: Cutest Kid and Most Overreaching Oscar Campaign.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 23, 2017

Overreaching investment bankers are now widely lampooned for their herdlike compulsions, even their telltale yellow ties and red suspenders.

From Time Magazine Archive

Overreaching in trade is often dignified with the name of shrewdness, but, for all that, it is contrary to the rule of honesty.

From Oscar The Boy Who Had His Own Way by Aimwell, Walter

Overreaching my right, they forced it back, breaking off Jones’s right brigades under Drayton, Kemper, and Garnett.

From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by Longstreet, James

Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues of that arch—as distinct too, yet as intimately blended.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Poe, Edgar Allan