overshoot

How To Use overshoot In A Sentence

• Unless a guide is along for the ride, it's all too easy to overshoot the reef and find yourself in green water, 200 feet above the nearest marine life.
• The plan overshoots its aim
• The department may overshoot its cash limit this year.
• The team found that in the previous two decades industrial society had gone into overshoot - the term environmental scientists use for a population of living things that is consuming vital resources so extravagantly that the ability of their environment to keep supporting them is at risk. P2P Foundation
• Late start and overshooting the stipulated time limit appear to be a thing of the past.
• PI controller made the respond speed faster and the overshoot less.
• He had mechanical problems which forced him to make four bike changes, and then he crashed for a second time, overshooting a bend and tumbling into the undergrowth.
• The only viable option was to curtail current spending to meet the new economic conditions and to adjust to the overshoot of the last two years.
• Bryan Talbot's Alice in Sunderland is probably the single weirdest graphic novel I've ever enjoyed (there's weirder stuff out there, but it overshoots enjoyability). Boing Boing
• Even then, admits one of the organisers, all the food is tinned because buying fresh fruit and vegetables would overshoot the budget of around £6 per parcel.