How to Use overqualified in a Sentence

overqualified

adjective

• They didn't hire her because she was overqualified for the job.
• First up: A spot on the club’s Wall of Fame, for which Bonds is massively overqualified.
  — Andrew Baggarly, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2017
• The reviews have not been very kind, and the movie itself barely deserves its wildly overqualified cast.
  — Josh Spiegel, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Feb. 2018
• Even in a robust truck market, these big boys are more than a little overqualified for daily use.
  — Tony Swan, Car and Driver, 16 June 2017
• But the Hall is falling down on what should be the easiest part of its job: inducting the most overqualified musicians.
  — Gavin Edwards, Billboard, 9 Apr. 2018
• Ethan Hawke joins a long list of overqualified actors taking supporting roles in MCU projects.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2022
• Drew Gulak might be one of the most overqualified interviewers in the history of this business.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2022
• Key and Leguizamo, comic talents who are wildly overqualified for this sort of thing, work hard, very hard, to infuse the tired material with laughs.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2019
• In a world where high-level high school players have found other routes on their road to the NBA, Bates is the most overqualified recruit to make a similar decision.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 30 June 2020
• Wilson was an overqualified No. 4 receiver to begin the year.
  — Dallas News, 22 Feb. 2022
• Best known locally as a pastry chef but a veteran of kitchens around the country, Ong may be the most overqualified server in Washington.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
• One more truth: Most employers and their HR staffs assume that older job applicants expect to earn higher salaries or are way overqualified and will soon get bored.
  — Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Aug. 2020
• Nor is USA Basketball in the market for overqualified equipment managers.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 16 Aug. 2019
• An overqualified worker is likely to be looking for a higher salary than what your company can offer.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 2 May 2022
• And on her first mission, this overqualified woman joins H for a night of hedonism diplomacy, showing some sluggy alien grandee a good time in a London nightclub.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 12 June 2019
• Also tiresomely cute, with the wildly overqualified Cranston and Bening in the title roles dialing up the folksy oldsterisms to grating degrees.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2022
• The company initially rejected her as overqualified, but then her résumé landed on the desk of founder Nadia Boujarwah, who brought her on to grow the business.
  — Diana Tsui, The Cut, 12 June 2018
• Those overqualified co-stars provide somewhat of a counterweight to Jerry Buss’ leering gaze, which dominates so much of Winning Time.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2022
• As a result, women to feel the need to overperform and become overqualified for equal opportunities.
  — NBC News, 10 Mar. 2021
• When the starting gun went off, the team spread out in a line, turned off their tactical brains, and followed two extremely overqualified pacemakers—Mohammed Ahmed and Lopez Lomong—until the last eight hundred metres.
  — Jacob Sweet, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2021
• Bringing Lopez aboard likely only works in a specific circumstance, in which Harden is brought back and Sengün becomes an overqualified sixth man.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 20 Apr. 2023
• An overqualified and utterly spectacular third baseman for most of his career now playing shortstop full-time in 2018.
  — Ted Berg, For The Win, 26 Apr. 2018
• In these garden-variety slumps, people and firms with the capacity to spend more, who might normally leap at the chance to buy discounted goods or hire overqualified workers, instead allow their cash to pile up.
  — The Economist, 20 Aug. 2019
• The overqualified cast do their best to inject some passion into the proceedings—Fassbender, in particular, is incapable of phoning it in—but the momentum drained out of these X-Men movies long ago.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 6 June 2019
• Hiring managers were more likely to hire overqualified women than overqualified men.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2022
• Openings for even menial posts attract throngs of overqualified applicants.
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
• And though the anti-Brown antics have been unusually unhinged—and have been keeping fact-checkers working overtime—Judge Brown has a stellar resume and is uniquely overqualified.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2022
• And the overqualified cast engages in some amusingly unprintable banter even if the movie seems to be taunting us with missed opportunities for levity.
  — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 6 May 2021
• That offers no improvement on the often cartoonish roles available for overqualified actresses of a certain age.
  — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2023
• But these limits mean many people find themselves like Han, the Beijing resident: overqualified, educated, experienced, and struggling to keep themselves afloat with gig work.
  — Berry Wang, CNN, 26 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024