How to Use oversell in a Sentence

oversell

verb
  • The salesman oversold the features on the new model.
  • Don't oversell yourself in the job interview.
  • Hotels routinely oversell their rooms, expecting a small percentage of no-shows.
  • Maybe this is right or maybe it is oversold.
    — Barry Libert, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The stock market is now way oversold.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2026
  • At times, the reader may feel that the book oversells its case.
    — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2017
  • It’s now oversold for the first time since last June, as well.
    — Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Cool in more than one sense, those faint shades refuse to oversell themselves.
    — Joseph Brogan, Ars Technica, 7 June 2017
  • They can be oversold or a bit extended in the short-term.
    — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Overselling flights is a fact of life in the airline business.
    — Damian Troise, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2017
  • What a pleasure to hear a singer who doesn't oversell anything.
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2017
  • Some airlines plan to oversell even more flights this summer.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2023
  • Airlines reserve the right to oversell flights in the fine print of tickets.
    — David Lazarus, latimes.com, 10 Apr. 2017
  • Take a look below for the market’s most overbought and oversold stocks this week.
    — Pia Singh, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Many experts are wary that others are overselling their field, and dooming it when the hype runs out.
    — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018
  • That is kind of funny, but then Hogsett tried to oversell hoops in the Hoosier state.
    — Pete Grathoff, kansascity, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Niles also said the overall stock market is oversold.
    — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 23 Mar. 2026
  • To its credit, the IEA does not oversell the kit.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
  • Whether the stock is now oversold and due for a short covering rally remains to be seen.
    — John Navin, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Maybe the whole dictionary concept has been oversold.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • That's going to come when we're really oversold.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 3 Mar. 2026
  • He’s begun to downplay Joyce’s achievements and to oversell his own.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Still, Kagan is careful not to oversell the future.
    — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2026
  • These have been spreading in industry as more businesses try to use it, and find that it has been oversold.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Airlines sometimes oversell their flights to compensate for no-shows.
    — Allison Pohle, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Some of the researchers were sometimes prone to oversell themselves—or in a sense to exploit the exploiters.
    — Joseph Bernstein, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Many experts agree that the military threat from the Chinese has been oversold.
    — Lindsay Koshgarian, Orange County Register, 11 July 2024
  • This week, no stocks were oversold enough to have an RSI below 30.
    — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 13 Dec. 2025
  • On the other hand, a reading below 30 means that a stock is oversold and may be due for a rebound.
    — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2024
  • In some cases, a flight may be oversold in the economy cabin, but there could be some space in first or business class.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2024

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