Sentence examples for become overkill from inspiring English sources

"I will refuse to allow oversight to become overkill," Mr. Lieberman said at a news conference.

Suh, who unsuccessfully represented Floyd Landis in Landis's two-year battle to keep his 2006 Tour de France title after testing positive for doping, and the other lawyers have asked for so many documents that it has become overkill, Howman said.

At what point does diversification become overkill?

A little matching looks coordinated and well put together, but too much can quickly become overkill.

Anticipation became overkill last week, when a predicted storm brought a mere dusting of snow and a lot of published photographs of plows all lined up with nowhere to go.

In the dish here, boneless (or at least skinless) thighs are the best choice for two related reasons: the sauce is so rich that the skin's fattiness becomes overkill, and chicken skin can cause grill-top flare-ups.

The downturn in the quantity of climate change media coverage is no small matter, since it affects public perceptions about the seriousness of climate change: if an issue does not remain on the public's mental fingertips, concern dwindles and urgency becomes overkill.

Wearing too many accessories easily becomes overkill.

Sampling techniques provide an efficient alternative in applications that can tolerate small errors, in which case exact evaluation becomes an overkill.

"Headhunters," a gleeful exercise in overkill, became the second-most-successful film of the year.

Revenge figures predictably in the book's denouement, and the quirky episodes become frequent enough to generate overkill.