How to Use overdrive in a Sentence

overdrive

noun

• He put the car into overdrive.
• The reporters went into overdrive to finish their stories on time.
• His acting career is in overdrive.
• In the case of the overdrive, switch it on and forget it.
  — David E. Davis Jr., Car and Driver, 16 May 2023
• This was enough to start the rumor mill and send it into overdrive.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• But with their backs up against the wall once again, the offense clicked into overdrive.
  — Andrew Tredinnick, USA TODAY, 6 May 2022
• But a few weeks ago, the discourse went into overdrive.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 1 Feb. 2023
• Awards season kicks into overdrive on the first weekend of the year with the return of the Golden Globes.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Jan. 2024
• And, when the mother has laid her eggs, these glands go into overdrive.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 19 May 2022
• The decision not to halt the Texas law sent those fears into overdrive.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Oct. 2021
• But the crisis in Ukraine sent bets on the dollar into overdrive.
  — Caitlin McCabe, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2022
• The college football coaching carousel has been in overdrive over the last 48 hours.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 30 Nov. 2021
• Now that summer is in full swing, my daily step count is in overdrive.
  — Jennifer Chan, Travel + Leisure, 1 July 2024
• With that, the team went into overdrive shifting their plans by a full 24 hours, with this year’s show moving to Sept. 11.
  — Rob Ledonne, Billboard, 10 Sep. 2024
• Homebuilders in that region got pushed into overdrive over the past two years.
  — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 5 June 2022
• Our first heat wave of the summer is headed into overdrive.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
• The fact-checkers no doubt will be sent into overdrive by the litany of lies that Trump delivered.
  — Karen Tumulty, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
• There’s nary a moment when your senses aren’t on overdrive.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 13 July 2024
• By turning a blind eye to money, the Fed has allowed the printing presses to run in overdrive.
  — Nicholas Hanlon, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2022
• So prices may rise just as much as pay, sending the wage-price spiral into overdrive.
  — Daniel Altman, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• But that wouldn’t be the game winning goal, as the Current went into overdrive looking for the tying goal.
  — Jonathan Saxon, The Courier-Journal, 19 Mar. 2022
• Now that the first debate is over, the Donald Trump running mate race heads into overdrive.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 28 June 2024
• The hype machine went into overdrive on the 21-year-old Bentley’s behalf.
  — Alex Pappademas, Men's Health, 28 Mar. 2023
• Napier, his staff and players enter Week 3 of camp in overdrive.
  — Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2022
• Still, the names that were released sent concert fans into overdrive.
  — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2024
• The Tor site blockage comes near the end of a year in which Russia's online crackdown has gone into overdrive.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2021
• In 2022, the designer dressed the Princess of Wales (then the Duchess of Cambridge) in a forest green dress that sent the internet into overdrive.
  — Samantha Conti, WWD, 5 July 2024
• This will force your abs to kick into overdrive and take pressure off your hips and arms to stabilize your body.
  — Michael Easter, Men's Health, 4 Mar. 2022
• His right hand went into overdrive with a barrage of palm-down, attacking gestures that didn’t stop.
  — Carol Kinsey Goman, Ph.d., Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
• And a Mike Pence reference is comically smuggled in when Cade’s rebellion goes into murderous overdrive.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024