How to Use overshadow in a Sentence

overshadow

verb

• The pitcher's outstanding performance should not overshadow the achievements of the rest of the team.
• The news has been overshadowed by the rest of the details of this.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2023
• Doesn’t try to overshadow them, just stays within the game.
  — Tom Lang, Detroit Free Press, 17 June 2023
• But changes in the near future could overshadow those of the recent past.
  — Steve Banker, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• The three days of the 2023 draft, however, were overshadowed by the goings-on of the big league club and its players.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2023
• But most of the time it is overshadowed by the behemoth that is soccer.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• UConn won 76-59, but it was all overshadowed by the afterglow of the women.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 6 Apr. 2023
• And already it has been overshadowed by his first hat trick.
  — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
• Year by year and find by find, Megalosaurus was overshadowed.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
• But on the ground in Gaza, the pause has been overshadowed by the apparently inevitable return to war.
  — Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
• While the bridal party shouldn't overshadow the bride, their looks should still feel a little bit special.
  — Emily Rekstis, Allure, 8 May 2022
• This team has too many players worthy of touches for one to overshadow the rest.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Jan. 2022
• Don’t bring Rick back here, as that would just overshadow the existing cast.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2021
• Dublin restaurants have long been overshadowed by the city's thriving nightlife scene.
  — Aoife O'Riordain, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2023
• That leaves investors surprised by the change, and the fear of the unknown can overshadow solid sales and revenue growth.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
• Shades of Charles’ late ex-wife, Diana, whose glamour and drama overshadowed Charles the prince.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
• Simone Biles has overshadowed the sport of gymnastics for the better part of a decade, but hasn’t won an Olympic gold medal since 2016 in Rio.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 30 July 2024
• Will the trials overshadow the 2024 race or shape its outcome?
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2023
• That was six more than the 17 scored by Lance Jones, the Southern Illinois transfer who also gets overshadowed by the two stars on this team.
  — Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Jan. 2024
• If there is anything else that happened at that same time, then sometimes the big event is overshadowed.
  — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2023
• The color alone is a statement that won’t overshadow any stylish outfit.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 3 Apr. 2024
• Al would never allow a player to overshadow the team — or Al.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2022
• One driver’s good day can overshadow the others’ bad ones.
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 May 2022
• Perry’s teammates said the record chase hasn’t overshadowed the team’s success.
  — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 16 Mar. 2023
• On a trip to Indonesia for the Group of 20 Summit, his last day in Bali was overshadowed by a missile crisis.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023
• One game does not overshadow Pierce’s season, but more carries could have helped his cause with NFL scouts.
  — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Nov. 2021
• Rahm acknowledged the noise around Reed can overshadow his game.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Jan. 2022
• In a broad field overshadowed by a runaway front-runner, too many choices can mean too few.
  — Rick Klein, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2023
• Though Bessette-Kennedy’s life has been overshadowed by her tragic death in a plane crash in 1999, her fashion legacy lives on.
  — Naomi Pike, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2024
• Now in its third year, Russia’s war on Ukraine is still overshadowing much doc work in the region, says Hovorka – to the extent that some great films in the genre are likely being overlooked while the world’s attention is on the battle zones.
  — Will Tizard, Variety, 27 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024