How to Use overprice in a Sentence
overprice
verb- The store was guilty of overpricing its goods.
- Everything in the store is grossly overpriced.
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Still, at $62 a liter, the chefs pronounced the oil overpriced.
— Rhonda Richford, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2017 -
The meat is overpriced, so Sims shops for that elsewhere.
— cincinnati.com, 5 Dec. 2019 -
At times, the market may get ahead of itself and even overprice a stock with great prospects.
— Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021 -
There has been a feeling they are overpriced, Hansen said.
— Marcos Bretón, sacbee.com, 12 May 2017 -
But Lundquist said builders must be careful not to overprice their homes.
— Tony Bizjak, sacbee, 21 May 2018 -
Cy the Cynic says that the best things in life are free — and everything else is overpriced.
— Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2017 -
The other issue was with Tribeca’s tiny puck of tuna tartare: overpriced at $16 and served on a warm plate.
— Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Jan. 2018 -
Still, a house can be overpriced, and today's savvy house hunters can smell an overpriced house a mile away.
— Diana Olick, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2017 -
At times, the market may get ahead and even overprice a stock with excellent prospects.
— Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 26 May 2022 -
While the Pixel Watch is overpriced, this is, at least, a fixable problem.
— Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 2 Mar. 2023 -
City disputes that the contracts were overpriced, and is appealing against the ban.
— The Economist, 29 Feb. 2020 -
But the Chiefs’ best bet, Corry suspects, is to sit out the first wave of free agency and see who overprices themselves.
— Terez A. Paylor, kansascity, 9 Mar. 2018 -
The big jump for stocks has come at a time when some investors had already seen markets as overpriced.
— Pan Pylas, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2017 -
Bittman, who makes most of his coffee at home, says many coffee shops are overpriced by a factor of at least four.
— NBC News, 10 Nov. 2019 -
A week later, Icahn, who owns a 13.5 percent stake, blasted the deal as overpriced.
— Carlos Caminada and Elizabeth Fournier, Houston Chronicle, 29 Dec. 2017 -
Anwar has said many of the projects awarded were overpriced and given without tender.
— Eileen Ng, ajc, 10 Mar. 2023 -
Woods has the fourth-best world ranking among those in attendance and is fourth by the odds at BetMGM in a rare case of him not being overpriced as a public favorite.
— Esten McLaren, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 2 Dec. 2019 -
The two governments wrangled for months over the project, which critics had lambasted as overpriced.
— Yantoultra Ngui, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2019 -
Is there enough overpriced moisturizer in your master bath to lube a Chevy pickup?
— Southern Living, 31 Jan. 2017 -
Is there enough overpriced moisturizer in your master bath to lube a Chevy pickup?
— Southern Living, 1 May 2017 -
Yet some experts make a case that stocks are not overpriced by important measures and will continue to rise.
— Jeff Brown, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2017 -
The raging run-up makes equities way overpriced regardless of the how long the economy takes to rebound.
— Shawn Tully, Fortune, 18 May 2020 -
Critics called the burger overpriced for the South Korean market.
— Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 30 June 2023 -
In a bid to help shed its image for being overpriced, Whole Foods launched a new store format last year called 365 that is aimed at younger, budget-conscious shoppers.
— Craig Giammona, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2017 -
A company can run a solid business and still be overpriced on the stock market, Ritter noted.
— Joanna Glasner, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2000 -
Market watchers have said for months that stocks were overpriced and long overdue for another pullback.
— Alex Veiga, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Mar. 2020 -
But some of those locations may be overpriced for a successful operation.
— Steve Brown, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2023 -
Hefty dealership markups certainly haven't helped the perception of EVs being overpriced, either.
— Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2023
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