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USE overlooked IN A SENTENCE
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
I don't know why, unless he had some money they had overlooked and was afraid they might come back for another try at him.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
If Mazaroff had not been so angry he could not have possibly overlooked so serious a slip on the part of his companion.
THE WEIGHT OF THE CROWNFRED M. WHITE
"I hardly know," was the novelist's reply, as in a navy serge suit he leaned near the window which overlooked the Thames.
THE DOCTOR OF PIMLICOWILLIAM LE QUEUX
The Committee has not overlooked the fact that in some cases this attitude may have been due to a defensive reaction.
REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON MORAL DELINQUENCY IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTSOSWALD CHETTLE MAZENGARB ET AL.
She was seated, one evening, plying her ever active needle, at the same small window which overlooked the churchyard.
HUNTED AND HARRIEDR.M. BALLANTYNE
The balcony overlooked an inner court, and was hung with riotous moon-vines.
THE SUNBRIDGE GIRLS AT SIX STAR RANCHELEANOR H. (ELEANOR HODGMAN) PORTER
She overlooked his incoherence, knowing well that he referred to Bruce and Ivarene.
A FORTUNE HUNTER; OR, THE OLD STONE CORRALJOHN DUNLOE CARTERET
How strange it was, that the good lady overlooked the fact, that I must hear all that could be heard by Dinah.
PAPERS FROM OVERLOOK-HOUSECASPER ALMORE
The last use is the most common; indeed, it is so common that sometimes the other uses are overlooked.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTER
One of the sheep, on its way back to the pen, saw a well-loaded burdock that had been overlooked.
THE RED COW AND HER FRIENDSPETER MCARTHUR
WORDS RELATED TO OVERLOOKED
- abandoned
- affronted
- cast aside
- decayed
- declined
- deferred
- depreciated
- deserted
- despised
- deteriorated
- disdained
- dismissed
- disregarded
- evaded
- forgotten
- ignored
- lapsed
- omitted
- overlooked
- passed over
- postponed
- scorned
- shunned
- spurned
- tossed aside
- unconsidered
- underestimated
- undervalued
- unheeded
- unused
- unwanted
- unwatched
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.