How to Use overwrite in a Sentence

overwrite

verb

• The author has a tendency to overwrite.
• Trust that your artist can fill in the gaps and tell the story the best way possible; no need to overwrite to explain things.
  — Goldie Chan, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• The current standard only records two hours and then overwrites the recording.
  — Marisa Garcia, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• This provides loop recording to overwrite the oldest footage with new content.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 9 Sep. 2021
• The new bug will be harder to exploit in that way, as the ability to delete files is less useful than the ability to overwrite files.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2018
• The hard drive of my brain is constantly overwriting itself, sacrificing the old for the new.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 2 July 2017
• Keep the language appropriate for the topic and don’t overwrite.
  — Yasmin Walter, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• Customers pushing ransomware could use the list to overwrite the UEFI to make large numbers of machines unbootable.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 3 Dec. 2020
• The first option would create a new backup that will overwrite the previous backup.
  — Toby Grey, BGR, 31 Aug. 2022
• What if the other clichés — of dice cast and Rubicons crossed — have finally overwritten this one?
  — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
• The two-hour limit means that the recorder may be quickly overwritten even on short flights, especially if there are any delays on the runway.
  — Mark Walker, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• The flight voice recorders on both aircraft were overwritten, meaning investigators can’t hear what was said in the cockpit at the time of the incident.
  — Gregory Wallace, CNN, 16 Feb. 2023
• This includes storing your clips for 60 days (older clips are overwritten by newer ones).
  — Dallas News, 27 June 2019
• Under the current requirements, CVRs tape for at least two hours at a time and then new data begins to overwrite the previous recording.
  — Amanda Maile, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2023
• Here, a downtempo beat is liable to be overwritten by a stuttering car horn and come out on the other side as a Bon Iver sample.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 26 Nov. 2019
• The proof of concept overwrites a file used by Windows' printing subsystem—Windows will then run the attacker's code when an attempt is made to print.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 29 Aug. 2018
• Videos and photos are shared and reshared online, sometimes in ways that mask or overwrite the file’s original metadata.
  — Leila Barghouty, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2022
• Progress is still slow, but the changes carry with them hopes of overwriting a past filled with ineffective therapies or drugs that could be worse than the diseases themselves.
  — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2021
• But the Internet era overwrote these roles with another one: a cultural joke.
  — Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
• When the dash cam storage is near maximum capacity, the loop recording function can overwrite the oldest video with new footage.
  — Jamie Kim, Good Housekeeping, 26 Oct. 2022
• Now my mother is making over the garden in rambling color, overwriting its history, once again, with olive trees, a fig, kitchen herbs, and a jacaranda.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
• The malware was installed remotely using malware tools that can read and overwrite parts of the UEFI firmware’s flash memory.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2023
• Because the bucket’s permissions let anyone write code to it, the attackers simply tack their Magecart malware onto the file, then overwrite the script that had been there.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 11 July 2019
• As a result, an attacker could insert strategic system links that direct the driver to overwrite the wrong file or even run malicious code.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 11 Feb. 2021
• As Ida and Mildred’s subsequent sections make clear, there is always someone else who can overwrite your story.
  — Jane Hu, The Atlantic, 26 May 2022
• And both have created works inspired by mapping, questioning how the borders of the United States have overwritten what was here before.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• His ebullient Schützenstrasse Quarter complex, built on the site of the former death strip, completely overwrites the area’s deadly history.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 21 June 2018
• The book is so beautifully written, and elegant, but funny, and not overwritten at all.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 5 Dec. 2023
• Unuchek has warned that the rooting processes used by malicious rooting apps can often harm the phones because the apps can overwrite crucial files and folders.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 20 June 2017
• At first, the coalition seemed to beat the odds: Allies praised its pledge to overwrite postwar pacifism with military revitalization.
  — Erika Solomon, New York Times, 20 June 2023

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024