overage

Example Sentences

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That allowance was made to account for a small overage that may help ensure that patients don’t run out.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

Hamlet, it is explained after his death, was an overage film student pursuing “an over-budget period film noir piece of crap.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2025

Men's Olympic squads are made up of under-23s players, with up to three overage players allowed, while women's squads have no age restrictions.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2024

He looked me up and down dubiously, perhaps wondering if I was joking, blind to my few pounds of overage compared to his 120.

From Slate • Oct. 4, 2023

To their dismay, the teenage leaders found their troops shockingly out of shape, overage, undisciplined, and less than enthusiastic.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti