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How to use overlook in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Overlook means a vista or point that gives a view down toward something else. Example: “Our hotel room overlooks the lake.”

Examples of overlook by meaning

nounA vista or point that gives a view down toward something else.

  • One main activity, such as swimming, will be supplemented by other activities and use of other facilities, such as picnicking, hiking, stopping at an overlook, and so forth.1980, Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), General Management Plan

verbTo offer a view (of something) from a higher position.

  • Our hotel room overlooks the lake.
  • Swinging sharply westwards, it emerges on to the Undercliff, overlooking the English Channel.1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 244

verbTo fail to notice; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it.

  • These errors were overlooked by the proofreaders.
  • White, too, overlooks the mate in two, starting with 21.QxP†.1954 January, Hans Kmoch, “Games from Recent Events”, in Chess Review

verbTo pretend not to have noticed (something, especially a mistake or flaw); to pass over (something) without censure or...

  • I’m not willing to overlook such bad behaviour.
  • Will you overlook it this once and forgive me, and let things go on as before?1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, chapter 1, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC

verbTo look down upon from above or from a higher location.

  • The hill overlooks the valley.
  • Cope was not allowed, indeed, to overlook the vague horizon where, through the pine groves, the blue of sky and of sea blended into one; but, under Medora Phillips’ guidance, his eyes were mostly turned inland.1919, Henry Blake Fuller, chapter 10, in Bertram Cope’s Year

verbTo supervise, oversee; to watch over.

  • to overlook a gang of laborers
  • to overlook one who is writing a letter

More sentences with overlook

  • They stopped at a romantic overlook, shut off the engine, and parked.From the entry park
  • After many biteless hours overlooking the bridge, the boys gathered up their fishing gear and went home.From the entry biteless
  • I took my seat on the plane, overlooking the wing.From the entry wing
  • The hotel overlooks a busy shopping plaza.From the entry plaza
  • The duke lived in a great hall overlooking the sea.From the entry hall
  • The rocks had stood overlooking the valley since time immemorial.From the entry immemorial
  • It was impossible to overlook the clamorous parrots on the new missionary’s Hawaiian shirt.2015, John Irving, chapter 9, in Avenue of the Mysteries, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 99. From the entry clamorous
  • Further, it overlooks the actual historical context in which the trend of archaism emerged.2015 November 2, László Török, The Kingdom of Kush: Handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization, BRILL, →ISBN, page 191. From the entry tip
  • The benefits of being sociable are that people often overlook the importance of being around people.2014, Virginia King, Seek and Ye Shall Find It's a Testimony. From the entry antisociable
  • The whole thing must have been rehearsed many times, for the detailist would overlook no detail.2010, Clinton H. Stagg, The Problemist, →ISBN. From the entry detailist
  • The recipes will direct you to chop the chocolate finely—do not overlook this step!2006, Dede Wilson, Truffles: 50 Deliciously Decadent Homemade Chocolate Treats, Harvard Common Press, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry ganache
  • The Army base overlooking the Otto Beit suspension bridge is equally decrepit, the gate unattended.2002, Dan Wylie, Dead Leaves: Two Years in the Rhodesian War, Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, →ISBN, page 60. From the entry beerbottle
  • The ceiling is the fifth wall of a room, so don't overlook it.2001, Christy Ferer, Risa Palazzo, Breaking the Rules: Home Style for the Way We Live Today, →ISBN, page 169. From the entry fifth wall
  • There is a function for the gadfly who poses questions that many specialists would like to overlook.1977, Morris Kline, Why the Professor Can’t Teach: Mathematics and the Dilemma of University Education, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s…. From the entry gadfly
  • The Sunday field trip included climbing the Tepozteco, a steep volcanic cliff overlooking the village of Tepoztlán.1973 November 9, C. Lomnitz, “Geodynamics Syposium in Mexico”, in Science, volume 182, number 4112, →JSTOR, page 607. From the entry Tepozteco
  • Old Jermyn sat down in his favourite chair by one of the windows overlooking Pall Mall.1927, Warwick Deeping, “28, I”, in Kitty. From the entry earlyish
  • It overlooks the Mediterranean, with spectacular sunrises.2024 February 24, Rory Carroll, Luke Harding, “On the run from Russia: the defector to Ukraine shot dead on the Costa Blanca”, in The…. From the entry Costa Blanca
  • The beautiful old stone clubhouse, set in a converted farmhouse overlooking the lake, is an atmospheric place for a postgolf drink.2022, Neil Wilson, Lonely Planet Ireland. From the entry postgolf
  • Extant scholarship and theory tends to overlook and mis-theorize the role that marginal actors play in organizational change and development.2017, Seth A. Jacobson, Marginal Matters. From the entry mis-theorize
  • Overlooking it may foster a misunderstanding of Fluddian rhetoric, embracing the false assumption that Fluddian science envisions a protoempiricist scientific method.2016, Raz Chen-Morris, Measuring Shadows: Kepler’s Optics of Invisibility. From the entry Fluddian
  • The mansionettes stood on high ground overlooking the docks.2014, Eoin McNamee, Blue is the Night. From the entry mansionette
  • The court overlooks the fogged-covered mountains of her hometown, an Atayal village called Chingchuan (清泉) which is near Hsinchu.2014 July 19, Dana Ter, “Snapshots from Chingchuan”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2016, Features…. From the entry Chingchuan
  • Sure, we'll need some robots, but we should not overlook developing a race of genetically enhanced supermonkeys as well.2008, Charles Marshall, I'm Not Crazy, But I Might Be a Carrier. From the entry supermonkey
  • I was overlooking the former Hotel Relax, my car papers safely at my side, a tall glass of pivo in hand.2006, Angus Bell, “The Village That Beat Poland”, in Slogging the Slavs: A Paranormal Cricket Tour from the Baltic to the Bosphorus…. From the entry pivo
  • I could overlook an unsnipped tip, but this clueless?2006, Francesca Segrè, “Girl Meets Goy”, in Ruth Ellenson, editor, The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt, Plume, →ISBN, 2, page 12…. From the entry unsnipped
  • But it was easy to overlook her little fib on a sunny afternoon as we strolled to an icecream parlor together.2005, Rupert Holmes, The Musician’s Daughter, Leicester: Charnwood, published 2009, →ISBN, page 76. From the entry icecream parlor
  • In the amagents' telling, police regularly accept bribes to overlook the crimes or drop the charges against the amagents.1998, Crime and Conflict (issues 13-22, page 26). From the entry amagent
  • The point overlooking the sea has beautiful scenery.1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System. From the entry choke up
  • The potlatch theory of the arms race also overlooks the unconscionable risk both superpowers took of omnicidal war.1995, Richard Rhodes, “Epilogue”, in Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. From the entry omnicidal

Meaning of overlook

  1. noun A vista or point that gives a view down toward something else.
  2. verb To offer a view (of something) from a higher position.
  3. verb To fail to notice; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it.

Full definition of overlook

Questions about overlook in a sentence

How do you use overlook in a sentence?
Overlook is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Our hotel room overlooks the lake.”
What is a short sentence with overlook?
“The hill overlooks the valley.”
What does overlook mean?
Overlook means a vista or point that gives a view down toward something else.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overlook (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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