Sentence examples for we've overshot from inspiring English sources

The blinking blue dot on my iPhone (with data-roaming magically switched off) shows we've overshot Dong Hoi, and now must backtrack a few miles by foot.

But now we've overshot the carrying capacity of the planet by at least 25% according to scientists at the National Academies of Science.

If they've been getting better for a while, then suddenly they start get worse, we've overshot the in-focus position, so the lens should be moved the other way, but only a little.

After an hour and a half of barrelling down a newly built motorway in excess of the speed limit, it was safe to assume we had overshot it; there were now roadsigns ahead for Switzerland.

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".

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.

it's clear we've overshot-.

But I would say that we have overshot the mark.

But with no lights to guide us, we had overshot the hotel and ended up on a former pineapple plantation, overgrown with mango, banana and hibiscus.

"But plainly, our nation has too many people in prison and for too long -- we have overshot the mark.