Sentence examples for perhaps overkill from inspiring English sources

Trains inevitably dominate (Anna even presses a toy train on her son which is, perhaps, overkill).

The conjunction seems to me to be more than coincidence, and is perhaps overkill.

Marty flails and swoons, about to fade into oblivion, while George rescues Lorraine again — this is perhaps overkill — and kisses her.

Perhaps overkill, even.

The show was basically a vehicle for Kidd, or one of his bandmates, to perform an action as mundane as opening up a closet door, only to find the video for "Synchronicity II" by The Police (or perhaps "Overkill" by Men at Work) lurking in the next room.

Repetition, and perhaps even overkill, is inevitable and forgivable.

Then a fluffy coating, like tempura or a doughy, pancake-like batter (the latter, it seems to me, is often — perhaps usually — overkill).

That's overkill, perhaps, but the book remains a model of its kind, a vivid tale that unfolds over three years (1933 to 1935) in a dusty and exhausted little village in Alabama.

Once he was arrested, we'd surely have editorialized against the brutality of his solitary confinement — as The Times has already done — and perhaps protested the disturbing overkill of the "aiding the enemy" charge.

Maybe it's overkill.

Overkill maybe, but a delicious one.