How to Use overplay in a Sentence

overplay

verb

• He overplayed the death scene.
• The network news overplayed the story just to get good ratings.
• In last month’s Super Bowl, the Chiefs overplayed the run.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2025
• Metaphors abound, but Biancheri doesn’t overplay her hand on that front.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 1 Dec. 2021
• Metaphors abound, but Biancheri doesn’t overplay her hand on that front.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 1 Dec. 2021
• Metaphors abound, but Biancheri doesn’t overplay her hand on that front.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 1 Dec. 2021
• Metaphors abound, but Biancheri doesn’t overplay her hand on that front.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 3 Dec. 2021
• Metaphors abound, but Biancheri doesn’t overplay her hand on that front.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 1 Dec. 2021
• At the very least, Senate Democrats overplayed their hand.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
• Grace had overplayed her hand in having him sacked, and the army rolled into Harare.
  — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
• The pedigree part of this plan has already been overplayed.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2020
• Wright overplays the run, safety Hill drifted too far right and can’t catch up and just like that, the game is tied.
  — oregonlive, 22 Dec. 2019
• But there’s lots of businesses for which that kind of risk is overplayed.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz at Work, 12 July 2019
• Churchill also seemed to think that the telegrams overplayed the duke’s involvement with the Nazis.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 21 July 2017
• But not all is lost, because Rapchinksi has overplayed his hand.
  — Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 15 May 2023
• Matthew Lillard overplays his smaller role and in the process spoils what was meant to be a major twist.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 26 Oct. 2023
• Casey instructed the team to overplay the 3-point line; let the Hornets have two points, but don’t give up a 3-pointer.
  — Vince Ellis, Detroit Free Press, 17 Nov. 2019
• On the other hand, Democrats are in danger of overplaying their hand.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 10 July 2018
• In business as well as in fashion, Kendall has overplayed his hand.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2019
• Also, there is a chance that Democrats may overplay their hand on Kavanaugh.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2018
• Sproles was so good at running that Texas route, that teams would start to overplay that, and so what did Norv do?
  — Jourdan Rodrigue, charlotteobserver, 19 Jan. 2018
• Hoult is the center of the film and never overplays the torment roiling inside.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
• The companies overplayed the drug’s safety from the outset, Oldani says.
  — Popular Science, 10 Mar. 2020
• But, the cynic in me can’t help but note that the Iran connection was overplayed last winter.
  — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 3 Jan. 2008
• The biggest issue, though, is that too much of the performance is overplayed.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 24 July 2019
• Trump’s lawyers may have overplayed their hand by rushing an appeal to the high court on Sunday.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2025
• In this show, some of them work well — there is a lot of talent in the very ample ensemble — but a few feel overplayed.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• Something tells me that this is a classic case of overplaying one’s hand.
  — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 12 Feb. 2018
• In this snappy jousting of words and egos, everyone in the cast has a license to overplay.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2023
• The format of moving from one number to the next in TikTok fashion encourages some of the performers to overplay their hands.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2025