How to Use overprice in a Sentence

overprice

verb

• The store was guilty of overpricing its goods.
• Everything in the store is grossly overpriced.
• 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
• 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
• Also, bookmakers tend to overprice game totals for the Rockets.
  — Geoff Clark, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 11 Jan. 2020
• Very often, the owners of a stale property that was overpriced from the beginning will ratchet down the price in incremental drops.
  — Ellen James Martin | Andrews McMeel Syndication, courant.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• Dropbox has had to battle doubters for years who felt that the storage company, last valued on the private market at $10 billion, was overpriced.
  — Theodore Schleifer, Recode, 27 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024