overplay

Example Sentences

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We shouldn't overplay the significance of one council by-election.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2025

But it’s easy to overestimate and overstate the extent of their leverage, and it’s a hand they can overplay.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2025

“That’s the thing that’s so great about Guy is he doesn’t overplay those beats,” says Corbet.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2024

In their loss to Oregon, some of their worst moments came when they played too aggressive, an overplay here, a bad pursuit route there.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2023

Friends, your nature underlies us and your pulses overplay us; Ye, with social sores unbandaged, can ye sing right and steer wrong?

From The Heptalogia by Swinburne, Algernon Charles