How to Use overtax in a Sentence

overtax

verb

• But none of them overtaxed the mind, or indeed taxed it at all.
  — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2023
• In so doing, 150 pounds on the roof is enough to overtax the suspension on many stock trucks.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 20 Apr. 2016
• The lyrics have a fresh charge but are sometimes overtaxed with too much narrative work.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
• Slowing down from Monticello's fast straights is enough to overtax the GR 86's brakes.
  — David Beard, Car and Driver, 17 Aug. 2021
• Any more than about 30 parades would overtax police and city services.
  — Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 19 Aug. 2020
• Their communication on help and switches wasn't perfect, but more to the point, the system was overtaxed.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2023
• Using too high a speed while kneading can overtax, even damage, your machine.
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2023
• Vira’s contemporary version is galouti kebab, lamb seasoned with star anise and other warm spices and mashed so as not to overtax the jaw.
  — Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2022
• The San Diego shelter was at 160 percent capacity, its staff was overtaxed, and many of the small animals had been there or in foster homes for nearly a year, according to Weitzman.
  — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• Critics say this plan will cost struggling consumers too much, could overtax the state’s energy grid, and doesn’t account for the severity of New York’s numbingly cold winters.
  — Hillary Chura, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2023
• In the meantime, Dor said that much of the burden of dealing with data in the A.I. era is falling on the shoulders of companies’ already overtaxed chief information security officers.
  — Bystephen Pastis, Fortune, 14 July 2023
• Fortunately, there are a number of excellent ideas for lighter fare that won’t overtax your already burdened inner thermostat.
  — David Holloway, al, 19 July 2023
• Running have published articles suggesting that runners scale back on intensity so as not to overtax the immune system.
  — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 20 Mar. 2020
• But to protect them, experts say, farmers need to stop overtaxing their land in pursuit of more production, a difficult ask in a part of the country that has traditionally lagged in development and poverty reduction.
  — Rebecca Tan, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2023
• Local officials and residents across Greater Boston have regularly fretted that new development overtaxes their towns with more children in their schools, more cars on their roads, and more demand on fire or police services.
  — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2023
• Property tax foreclosures are a controversial issue, particularly in Detroit, where tens of thousands of homes were overtaxed and then foreclosed.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 29 Aug. 2023
• Practical concerns for a receiving institution include how to handle the number of proposals received on the deadline date and whether that load will overtax or crash the existing computer infrastructure.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2018
• The air force, in particular, is liable to be overtaxed by increasing demands from both theaters for aerial refueling and transportation, as well as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities.
  — Emma Ashford, Foreign Affairs, 22 May 2023

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024