How to Use oversell in a Sentence

oversell

verb

• The salesman oversold the features on the new model.
• Don't oversell yourself in the job interview.
• Hotels routinely oversell their rooms, expecting a small percentage of no-shows.
• It’s now oversold for the first time since last June, as well.
  — Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2024
• At times, the reader may feel that the book oversells its case.
  — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2017
• That is kind of funny, but then Hogsett tried to oversell hoops in the Hoosier state.
  — Pete Grathoff, kansascity, 27 Apr. 2018
• Overselling flights is a fact of life in the airline business.
  — Damian Troise, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2017
• Airlines reserve the right to oversell flights in the fine print of tickets.
  — David Lazarus, latimes.com, 10 Apr. 2017
• Cool in more than one sense, those faint shades refuse to oversell themselves.
  — Joseph Brogan, Ars Technica, 7 June 2017
• What a pleasure to hear a singer who doesn't oversell anything.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2017
• Some of the researchers were sometimes prone to oversell themselves—or in a sense to exploit the exploiters.
  — Joseph Bernstein, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
• Many experts are wary that others are overselling their field, and dooming it when the hype runs out.
  — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018
• Some airlines plan to oversell even more flights this summer.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2023
• He’s begun to downplay Joyce’s achievements and to oversell his own.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2022
• Many experts agree that the military threat from the Chinese has been oversold.
  — Lindsay Koshgarian, Orange County Register, 11 July 2024
• The Fallows don’t want to oversell the extent of this grassroots energy.
  — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 9 May 2018
• In some cases, a flight may be oversold in the economy cabin, but there could be some space in first or business class.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2024
• Politicians in Washington and elsewhere have called for a ban on overselling flights.
  — David Koenig, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• These have been spreading in industry as more businesses try to use it, and find that it has been oversold.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
• Likening women’s tennis to the Wild West would oversell the vastness and chaos of the American frontier.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• Ilario is broken up about Walden’s death, but Damon doesn’t oversell the waterworks.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 30 July 2021
• Some of us in the plant business are accused of occasionally overselling this plant or that.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 19 July 2019
• One mainstay of the Trump era is reporters are constantly wary of overselling the salience of the political moment.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 12 May 2018
• But Pelosi would do well to have modest expectations of Trump, and not to oversell any handshake agreements with him.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 8 Sep. 2017
• Anderson, though of the left, was not keen to oversell the role of Communism in the independence movements of Southeast Asia.
  — Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
• The Hong Kong shares have been either oversold or overbought -- and often both -- every year since its 2002 initial public offering in the city.
  — Bloomberg.com, 2 May 2018
• But, like all the weight-loss promises that came before them, they're being drastically oversold.
  — Mara Gordon, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024
• Airlines sometimes oversell their flights to compensate for no-shows.
  — Allison Pohle, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2023
• Trump’s approach has frequently confounded the efforts of the rest of the team by overselling breakthroughs that have to be walked back quietly by his experts.
  — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 21 Mar. 2020
• The first, from Newsweek, is a more egregious exaggeration than the second, from CNN, but both wildly oversell minor progress.
  — Gary Marcus, Quartz, 12 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024