overstep

How To Use overstep In A Sentence

• He has overstepped the bounds of acceptable behaviour.
• But next day when the cobbler ventured to criticise the legs, the painter came forth from his hiding-place and recommended the cobbler to stick to the shoes -- advice which in the words of the Latin version of the story also has been adopted as a proverb, _Ne sutor ultra crepidam_ ( "Let not the shoemaker overstep his last"). Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young
• He overstepped the mark and we had no option but to suspend him.
• I think he overstepped the line. Times, Sunday Times
• Most serious of all is that our political leaders repeatedly overstepped the scope of their constitutionally prescribed jobs.
• When I saw a Negro walking down the street I knew what it was like to have people look at you, watch what you're doing, watch close if you 'overstep' the line. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
• Thomas, obedient to codes of privacy, didn't want to overstep the line.
• Is that what you call overstepping the mark a trifle? Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux
• In newspaper articles she consistently upbraided those in authority who overstepped their limits.
• Gee, how else would a spokesman for the real party of treason, the Republicans, answer a charge that this criminal administration has once again overstepped the law so badly that even their own Kangaroo Court is voting against them! Think Progress » Lott: Supreme Court Decision Is ‘Ridiculous and Outrageous,’ Has Our Enemies ‘Laughing At Us’