Used in a Sentence

overlook

How to use overlook in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for overlook.

Editorial note

I think I would strangle some clown flying a drone right in front of a beautiful scenic overlook.

Examples11
Definitions6
Parts of speech2

Quick take

a high place affording a good view

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of overlook gathered in one view.

noun

a high place affording a good view

verb

look past, fail to notice

verb

be oriented in a certain direction; "The house looks out on a tennis court"; "The apartment overlooks the Hudson"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for overlook.

noun

a high place affording a good view

verb

look past, fail to notice

verb

be oriented in a certain direction; "The house looks out on a tennis court"; "The apartment overlooks the Hudson"

verb

watch over; "I am overlooking her work"

Example sentences

1

I think I would strangle some clown flying a drone right in front of a beautiful scenic overlook.

2

But there isn't, and there are people in the Valley who are willing to overlook ethics if you have enough money.

3

Some years ago it might have been OK to overlook much of Scala's complexity and use it as "a better Java".

4

And because we want to agree with the conclusion, we're tempted to overlook the sloppy reasoning.

5

The CEO suffers from significant hearing loss, but that enabled him to see a huge market that most 20-something founders overlook.

6

Don't overlook the Google-related footnote at the end:"Google keeps logs of IP addresses for 18 months, after which they keep logs of three-quarters of the IP address.

7

Wow, it seems most of the comment here, as of now, decided to overlook the parts of the article that explicitly state problems that are most suffered by women.

8

It's just unfortunate that in this instance, it also happens to be very easy to overlook this pitfall when implementing web view logic that handles non-http links.

9

And so, the idea that something pivotal could be conducted by just flying in by night was just easy to overlook -- not as in, he didn't think about it at all, just that it wasn't really worth a serious mention.

10

No idea if the save as web page feature works well for complex documents, but to overlook this when complaining about publishing a Word doc as a web page demonstrates woeful ignorance of the product being criticized.

11

It is used heavily by WhatsApp to share data between primary and back-up instances of processes running on different machines.> You just have to overlook ugly syntax, lack of string type, lack of structs, lack of hash tables, slow execution time.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use overlook in a sentence?

I think I would strangle some clown flying a drone right in front of a beautiful scenic overlook.

What does overlook mean?

a high place affording a good view

What part of speech is overlook?

overlook is commonly used as noun, verb.