How to Use oversee in a Sentence

oversee

verb
  • He was hired to oversee design and construction of the new facility.
  • There is now a button on the city’s website to donate, a process overseen by the San Diego Foundation.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The guardian program, which is not overseen by a state agency, requires 16 hours of training.
    Sonia Rao, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Walls work just fine when they are overseen by an alert garrison.
    Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The issues outraged the mayor and council members at the time, who called for the city to not pay the county for overseeing the runoff that June.
    Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 17 May 2023
  • There are no park rangers or county staff overseeing the parks.
    Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2023
  • Special counsel Jack Smith's office, which is overseeing the case, said the claim that the death penalty is on the table in Trump's case is false.
    Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Judge Scott McAfee, who is overseeing the case, approved the requests for both out-of-state witnesses.
    Olivia Rubin, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Tesar addressed the volunteer overseeing the event but loudly enough so Starr could hear from 15 to 20 feet away.
    Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
  • The property the condo sits on is owned by the HOA, which oversees landscaping and maintenance of shared amenities.
    Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Matthew Maier, who oversees Eyeo’s ad blockers, says its surveys show that most users aren’t against ads entirely.
    WIRED, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The question of why Nolan didn’t continue and oversee more projects has never been fully answered.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Special counsel Robert Hur is overseeing the case, but Biden is not expected to face any charges.
    Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The most common form is an annual percentage tied to the total value of the assets the advisor oversees for you.
    Bernice Napach, wsj.com, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Olivia LaRoche will oversee the special for Roku Originals.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Kish will oversee a group of talented chefs from across the country — six of whom are James Beard Award nominees, including Dan.
    Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The group’s archives were overseen by a number of former members after its dissolution in the early 1990s and are now housed at UCLA.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The police department’s Traffic Unit had been overseeing the crossing guard program, which has had a high turnover rate.
    Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Debbie Allen will oversee creative direction of the sequence.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Angels oversee the shepherds on their journey to protect them from the devil’s influence and the seven deadly sins.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Many states require a supervising physician to oversee the business, but they’re not always required to be on-site, Dr. Shafer says.
    Audrey Noble, SELF, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Vrablic ultimately oversaw a relationship with the Trumps that led to three major loans at the heart of a sweeping fraud case against Trump, his two adult sons and their company.
    Graham Kates, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • There’s been chatter within anti-Trump circles that the process to get Cannon to then oversee the criminal trial was somehow rigged.
    Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Williams oversaw the mad-scientist experiments in the restaurant’s Nordic Food Lab.
    Kate Krader, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Fin oversees the day-to-day political coverage for CBS News.
    Fin Gómez, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Every stage of the creation process is overseen in this one location, from the assembling of a prototype to the final quality control.
    Nancy Olson, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Changes in the global energy mix, especially the rapid growth of electric vehicles, could weaken the importance of oil and the cartel that oversees it.
    Jim Krane, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The Jordanian air force began airdrops into northern Gaza two weeks ago – with one of the first flights overseen by King Abdullah himself.
    Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Higgins oversaw the demo, with a resonator guitar delivering the rolling effect while a kick drum kept the pace moving by hitting every beat once the first chorus came in.
    Tom Roland, Billboard, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Someone like Lindsay Schapiro started here in the digital department blasting out socials and now oversees a staff of five people, and has been here for seven or eight years.
    Jonathan Cohen, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023

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