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Example sentences for "overdoing"

Lexicographically close words:
overcrowding; overdependence; overdid; overdo; overdoes; overdone; overdose; overdraft; overdraw; overdrawn
  1. I said I would risk a lira, which he thought overdoing it, as he and his friends seldom risked more than four or five soldi, but there was still the troublesome matter of the number.

  2. But the students make the mistake of slightly overdoing it.

  3. I tell you, you're overdoing it, old man, and you must pull up!

  4. There is another danger connected with overdoing study in the time of girlhood that must not be overlooked.

  5. I fancy I have been overdoing myself a little over tennis and riding at Hodinuggur.

  6. A dreary disturbing round of thought kept her awake, sending her back and back again to the same point--the assertion that she had certainly been overdoing it.

  7. I fear I have been overdoing it in this tempting mountain region.

  8. But this was too much for Zara--he was overdoing the part--and she turned and flashed upon him a glance of resentment and contempt.

  9. Several ladies remarked that night that really Helena Langley was going quite beyond all bounds, and was overdoing her unconventionality quite too shockingly.

  10. You are overdoing it, sir, overdoing it vastly!

  11. I warned you, you know, that you were overdoing it.

  12. Harry was too good an artist not to be pained at the sight of an actor overdoing his part.

  13. He secured Laura next, and leading her away from her own party, said, 'Laura, have you been overdoing it?

  14. And is she really strong and well, or is it that excited overdoing of employment that I first set her upon?

  15. Were they all overdoing it a bit--this reacting of their hostility to the sole remaining outsider of their compact little group?

  16. I think you're overdoing it, Bonnie," Captain Strawn protested.

  17. However, he laughed in his fatherly way, and assured me we were not overdoing it.

  18. To my mind, he is overdoing the business, and more than once I have expostulated with him.

  19. He knew he was overdoing it, but the meeting with Cullison had annoyed him exceedingly.

  20. He was bowing to her with an obvious intention of overdoing it.

  21. It doesn't do to rely too much on lists, and there is such a thing as overdoing discipline.

  22. Slackness was regarded as bad form, and only one member of the mess made no secret of his opinion that the Colonel was overdoing the "spit and polish" business.

  23. Come, Mr. Burton, chivalry and quixotism are very fine things in their way; but there's no use in overdoing them.

  24. Not so much you, my boy, as the overdoing at Woodside!

  25. The doorbell, in response to a temperate pull, grated on the silence of the night, overdoing its duty and suggesting that the puller's want of restraint was to blame.

  26. He made the mistake, fatal to clear speech, of overdoing articulation.

  27. There had been plenty of talk through a longish drive, and Gwen was getting afraid of overdoing it.

  28. People are warning me that I may be overdoing it rather.

  29. Another way to confound you in your religion is, by setting you upon overdoing by inventions of your own.

  30. Sidenote: By setting you on overdoing by your own inventions.

  31. It's a good thing, so you needn't be afraid of overdoing it.

  32. Or has the experienced matron been overdoing her attention to his morals?

  33. As overdoing nature is a fault which applies in all the other operations used in graining, it will be well to guard the student against this defect right at the beginning.

  34. It may as well be stated here at the beginning that more bird's eye maple graining is spoiled by overdoing than by not doing enough work upon it.

  35. If he was overdoing it, he was overdoing it realistically enough.

  36. So he sopped his apple and swallowed it, and picked up his pen again, chary of overdoing it.

  37. I fear that Jimmy Grayson is overdoing it," said the elderly Tremaine, soberly.

  38. It was clear to her that he was overdoing it, and in her opinion that was as bad as not doing it at all.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overdoing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    drunkenness; excess; extravagance; gluttony; incontinence; indulgence; lavishness; overemphasis; overwork; prodigality; squander; strain; tax; unrestraint; waste