overextend

Example Sentences

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This refreshingly original tour of the ancient world’s lesser-known locales challenges readers to imagine familiar stories from the other side for a change, and only occasionally overextends by trying to rehabilitate its subjects’ bad reputations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

Glimpses of that ghoulishness arrive in scenes where Orlok is plaguing Ellen, but when he’s hunting and not haunting, Skarsgård overextends himself to the point it veers on goofiness.

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2024

In his efforts to help, he overextends himself.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2023

It overextends the science you’re defending, and it engulfs the whole debate in moral flames.

From Slate • Apr. 27, 2018

He does not have great mirror skills, he bends at his waist too frequently and he overextends at times.

From Chicago Tribune • Apr. 14, 2012