How To Use Overextend In A Sentence
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There should be a mark showing the safe limit for the height of the seat - go beyond that, and it could be dangerous because the seat is overextended and so not very strong.
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Today, the state is likely to be seen as the lesser of privacy-invading evils, and even as a source of protection for our privacy, rather than as an entity that should not be allowed to overextend its reach into our private lives.
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Just don't be tempted to overextend yourself.
The Sun
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But at times I found the exposition a bit overextended and reiterative and the family clashes underdramatized.
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Problems arise because drug names sound alike, prescriptions are illegible and pharmacists are overextended.
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I think our credit has been overextended to diversify.
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If your staff is overworked or overextended, it will inevitably show in their attitudes toward customers.
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You don't have to overextend yourself.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the new version, the banker is a Wall Street CEO He overextends mortgages, he loses the bank, and when things go under, he uses his get-out-of-jail-for-free card.
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Her shoulders were overextended, which could cause brachial nerve damage.
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When you grip down, don't overextend your arms.
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Many of these arguments from the early 1980s now appear rhetorically overextended, with too many unsubstantiated leaps across discursive spans.
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Markets normally overextend themselves either on the upside or downside.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of course some empires collapse because they overextend their borders, leaving the centre strained and hollow.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just don't be tempted to overextend yourself.
The Sun
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Many company managers are severely overextended.
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He overextended himself when he accepted the additional assignment.
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Always take the proper precautions with ladders and safety equipment, and don't overextend your reach or place yourself in precarious positions.
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The vast majority of sports injuries and accidents happen because people overextend themselves.
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At the same time, port officials say they are short-handed when it comes to unloading containers, and others involved in shipping say rail lines and trucking companies are also overextended.
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We overextended our defense a little bit but I think our athleticism paid off.
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Without such help his situation proved impossible, for he was greatly overextended.
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It was inevitable, because highly leveraged and overextended lenders and speculators lead to eventual ruin.
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Any users of credit may overextend themselves.
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Be careful not to overextend yourself. You've been very ill.
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Her limbs were folding back down again now having been wildly overextended and she lapsed into silence.
A DARKENING STAIN
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Overextend and you could lose money if the garden ends up too small.
Times, Sunday Times
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We're careful not to overextend ourselves.
Times, Sunday Times
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But not trying to present it as some kind of policy for first-time buyers, or encouraging banks to overextend again.
Times, Sunday Times
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If your staff is overworked or overextended, it will inevitably show in their attitudes toward customers.
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No, no one says they want to reinflate a temporary bubble based more on speculation and overextended credit than on actual value.
Matthew Yglesias » The Endless Dream of Re-inflating the Bubble
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Overextending the designation diminishes the special quality of Wilderness, he said.
Aspen Times - Top Stories
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You don't have to overextend yourself.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps something in each of their personalities meant they were always doomed to overextend themselves.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, you're offered an excess of indulgence and you'll be driven to overextend yourself emotionally and financially.
The Sun
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In many hospitals, labor pain management options are limited to epidurals, parenteral analgesics, or rudimentary labor support from overextended nurses.
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Be careful not to overextend yourself. You've been very ill.
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I did cardiovascular exercise and lots of it - elliptical trainer, stationary bike and Spinning - but did only basic weight exercises so I didn't overextend my joints.
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He overextended himself when he accepted the additional assignment
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The US was also handicapped by a shortage of spy-in-the-sky satellite capability, already overextended by the Iraq and Afghan wars.
03 « September « 2008 « Niqnaq
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The American Depression worsened when banking panics swept undiversified and overextended rural banks and the Federal Reserve failed to intervene.
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And his best argument for keeping our overextended army in a civil warzone is absolutely, patently absurd.
Archive 2007-05-01
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Hitters easily can read the ball out of his hand because his delivery lacks deception and he overextends his arm.
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In late June, a Russian army of some 42000 had taken advantage of the overextended lines of communication of Charles XII and his Swedish force of around 19000 effectives, to win an overwhelming victory at Poltava, deep in the Ukraine.
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Choose a vehicle that won't overextend you financially.
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The British East India Tea Company was overextended and faced bankruptcy.
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Any users of credit may overextend themselves.
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They found themselves overextended when they borrowed the money for the new house.
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It is a twentieth-century classic, and besides, by the 1970s she was too overextended to complete such an assignment.
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The overworked, overextended parent may be seen as unloving, but may simply be exhausted.
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They should not overextend themselves on the mortgage.
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Since the front extended northwestward some 1,900 kilometers from Belgorod to Leningrad, to say that the armies of the Germans and their three principal allies were overextended is putting it mildly.
Deathride
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But not trying to present it as some kind of policy for first-time buyers, or encouraging banks to overextend again.
Times, Sunday Times
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But it is also possible that a major economic adjustment in the US is triggered simply by the sheer financial exhaustion of America's overextended consumers.
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Of course some empires collapse because they overextend their borders, leaving the centre strained and hollow.
Times, Sunday Times
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Househunters who overextend themselves to buy properties at the peak of the market are storing up trouble, experts warn.
Times, Sunday Times
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The British East India Tea Company was overextended and faced bankruptcy.
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Even less realistic is the expectation that an already overextended government could do it even if it wanted to.
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Be careful not to overextend yourself. You've been very ill.
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These federal guarantees encourage people to overextend by making borrowing cheaper than it otherwise would be.
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In addition, climate change is projected to exacerbate health problems, such as heat-related illness, cholera, dengue fever and biotoxin poisoning, placing additional stress on the already overextended health systems of most small island states (see Chapter 2).
Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 6
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First, the Arian heresy overextends God's unity by referring to diversity and difference in God rather than distinction.
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The troops are overextended and overlooked beyond bumper sticker sloganisms, and their experience contrarily makes them more uncertain and less confident concerning their mission.
Michael Ford: Perspective on War Costs: Is It Worth It?
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Markets normally overextend themselves either on the upside or downside.
Times, Sunday Times
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We're careful not to overextend ourselves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some people who want to help but overextend themselves might not get in trouble if there were financial assistance to properly care for and house these abandoned animals.
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However, you're offered an excess of indulgence and you'll be driven to overextend yourself emotionally and financially.
The Sun
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Househunters who overextend themselves to buy properties at the peak of the market are storing up trouble, experts warn.
Times, Sunday Times
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Binoche plays an actress, displaying her chops doing Shakespeare, The Collector, and - in one painfully overextended scene - the ironing.
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Be careful not to overextend yourself. You've been very ill.
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He overextended himself when he accepted the additional assignment.
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First, the Arian heresy overextends God's unity by referring to diversity and difference in God rather than distinction.
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True, Leroy is more of a small leopard than a domestic moggy, but surely these three moggies could outflank him and make him overextend his supply chain or something.
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Perhaps something in each of their personalities meant they were always doomed to overextend themselves.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the new version, the banker is a Wall Street CEO He overextends mortgages, he loses the bank, and when things go under, he uses his get-out-of-jail-for-free card.
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I wonder what church would look like in our local communities if church was a place where an overextended and tired people could find rest and refueling.
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Overextend and you could lose money if the garden ends up too small.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hospitals in this city are operating without doctors, with overextended nursing staffs and interns keeping most hospitals open.
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Their awkwardness, overextended maturity, mercurial temperaments, and easy companionship were all spot on.
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It in no way relieves the strain on our overextended military personnel.