How to Use overeager in a Sentence

overeager

adjective

• Both guards are overeager to put the ball on the floor and attack closeouts, missing out on second and third reads for open and cutting teammates across the floor.
  — Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2022
• Back then, entire scenes and careers blossomed thanks to websites run by overeager nerds who fawned over artists no one else cared about.
  — Isabelia Herrera, Pitchfork, 28 Nov. 2023
• But who is there to protect and defend the rule of law from an overeager new administration?
  — Luther Strange, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2020
• The confusing episode caught the attention of some overeager investors.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 31 Mar. 2021
• Or, on the flip side, how much longer before someone (a disgruntled hater, an overeager fan) lets slip his true identity?
  — Hazlitt, 6 July 2022
• Guards yelled more, lobbed snarky insults and seemed overeager to dole out disciplinary infractions.
  — NBC News, 23 Sep. 2021
• The story spread like wildfire from there, aided by overeager editors.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2022
• In Up's case, a cranky old man, an earnest young scout, and an overeager dog head off on a gorgeous, globe-trotting journey and wind up being just the trio needed to defeat some unwitting foes.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 21 June 2023
• With overeager Mars now retrograde in Gemini and your financial district, you could be tempted to gamble or spend it all in one place.
  — The Astrotwins, ELLE, 30 Nov. 2022
• One of my favorite contestants is Matt Jackson, an overeager paralegal who enjoyed a 13-episode winning streak five years ago.
  — Mansee Khurana, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2020
• Last season, McCarthy blamed the physical practices on overeager younger players.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 17 June 2022
• Maybe in season two, the gang will become unlikely podcast celebrities and have to contend with an overeager mental-health service/meal-kit box/mattress-ad rep who lives upstairs.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2021
• The overeager Jean makes a clumsy attempt at connection during Leah’s first year of college, sending a homemade birthday card that crosses boundaries of taste and judgment.
  — Jeffrey Ann Goudie, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2023
• The organization had rules to stop those kinds of pay-for-play shenanigans and investigators to chase down overeager boosters, who mostly eluded their grasp.
  — Joe Drape, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2024
• But there are far more scammers looking for overeager fans than legitimate sellers willing to unload tickets at below the going rate.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• Keep in mind that Gen Z is less likely to use email for friend-to-friend communications like older generations, and email clients are sometimes overeager about tossing these emails into the Spam folder.
  — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
• Instead, Sam is forced to join her overeager cousin Jess (a charming Anjelika Washington) and her struggling, underdog praise team (think a gospel choir’s younger, cooler cousin) in the lead-up to a national championship competition.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023
• Teammates immediately appreciated Weddle’s insight in the film room and practices, Weddle eager — overeager? — to assess how this feeling would translate to the game.
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2022
• The documentary — and Guetta’s fame — was intended as a biting commentary on the ignorant, overeager commercialization of street art.
  — Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
• But when conflicts of interest between rivals are severe, overeager efforts to induce détente can be destabilizing.
  — Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• However, the latter’s tendency toward overeager response at lower speeds makes the standard brake package better suited to everyday driving.
  — Bradley Iger, Robb Report, 6 July 2023
• Carrero never over-eggs Honey's shambolic shimmy, her overeager drunk sorority girl who really, really needs to be taken home an all-too-familiar figure.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 6 May 2022
• Last season, readers came to us with unexpected questions, from what to do about people parading pedigree dogs through the office to how to manage the tension between an overeager junior employee and micromanaging executive leadership.
  — Jennifer Mizgata, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2021
• To be sure, the technology is still in its early stages, and governments will need to make policy to protect existing workers from unscrupulous applications of the technology (and perhaps even overeager cost-cutters in company leadership).
  — Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 12 Feb. 2024
• Frantically loud orchestral playing, under the overeager baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, only amplified the music’s limitations.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• Dexter is a scientific-minded boy who conducts experiments in his hidden laboratory, though his inventions often go awry due to his overeager personality.
  — Will Harris, EW.com, 20 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024