Sentence examples for Overshot the mark from inspiring English sources

And I thought, "I did not expect this," it was like I'd overshot the mark.

Shortly before the Defence of Marriage Act was challenged in the Supreme Court in 2013, he said he now thought it was unconstitutional (the court agreed), and he has argued that "we overshot the mark" on incarceration.

But they overshot the mark: The woman was a slender thing, not a Percheron, and she passed out, and her judgment was reduced to where her affection for them didn't mean much.

In a foreword to a book on mass incarceration published a year ago, he wrote "we have overshot the mark", and speaking at an NAACP convention last July, the former president conceded: "We had a lot of people who were locked up, who were minor actors, for way too long".

The Kins aimed at this crowd too, but I think they overshot the mark.

People overshot the mark.

My second overshot the target and the fish never saw it.

We got caught up in these efforts and overshot the target!

At the offices of the Westchester County Board of Realtors and the Westchester Putnam Multiple Listing Service in downtown White Plains, P. Gilbert Mercurio, chief executive of the Board of Realtors, said one reason for the recent slowdown was that "prices had overshot their mark" in recent years.

In a farewell letter to Sir Edgar Speyer, dated March 16, Scott wondered whether he had overshot the meeting point and fought the growing suspicion that he had in fact been abandoned by the dog teams: "We very nearly came through, and it's a pity to have missed it, but lately I have felt that we have overshot our mark.

In a farewell letter to Sir Edgar Speyer, Scott wondered whether he had overshot the meeting point and fought the growing suspicion that he had been abandoned by the dog teams: "We very nearly came through, and it's a pity to have missed it, but lately I have felt that we have overshot our mark.