Examples of overshoot in a Sentence
The plane overshot the runway.
Sometimes we overshoot our time limits.
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These zones are meant to stop planes that overshoot the runway.
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 19 July 2025
This comes at the expense of many start-stop prototypes that overshoot this metric in any one dimension.
—Harini Gopalakrishnan, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
The attorneys maintained the prosecution had overshot the mark.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 2 July 2025
In 2010, an Air India flight arriving from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, overshot the runway in Mangalore, India, and plunged over a cliff, killing 158 of the 166 people on board.
—Foster Klug, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2025
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 19 July 2025
This comes at the expense of many start-stop prototypes that overshoot this metric in any one dimension.
—Harini Gopalakrishnan, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
The attorneys maintained the prosecution had overshot the mark.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 2 July 2025
In 2010, an Air India flight arriving from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, overshot the runway in Mangalore, India, and plunged over a cliff, killing 158 of the 166 people on board.
—Foster Klug, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for overshoot
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“Overshoot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overshoot. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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overshoot
verb
over·shoot
ˌō-vər-ˈshüt 
overshot
-ˈshät
; overshooting
; overshooting
1
: to miss by going beyond
the plane overshot the runway
2
: to shoot over or beyond
overshot the target
Medical Definition
overshoot
noun
over·shoot
ˈō-vər-ˌshüt
: a rapid change in electrical potential and reversal of polarity that occurs during an action potential when a cell or tissue is stimulated
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