How to Use overseer in a Sentence

overseer

noun
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  • The overseer threw a two-pound lead weight at the runaway.
    — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Part of my job is to be one of the creative overseers of the projects going on here.
    — Noel Murray, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2017
  • The coffins signifies death to the slave master or to the overseer.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The rest of the Africans attacked the overseer, took the whip from him, and proceeded to beat him with it.
    — al, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The Sizzler victory in 2017 was his first as the full time overseer of the team.
    — Shawn Courchesne, courant.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Both the Pentagon overseer of the war court and the judge have declined the request.
    — Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 18 May 2017
  • Upon crashing down, the overseer was mauled by the pack of hounds, which shocked Jake.
    — Durrell L. Smith, Outdoor Life, 10 June 2020
  • Thiel’s part of the board of overseers for the Hoover Institution.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Soon, one of those miners dies — rather, he is killed using the butt of an overseer’s gun.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2022
  • Oh, and Bud is the overseer of Vault 31 — well, Bud’s brain, suspended in a jar on a roomba.
    — Jack King, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
  • It’s betrayed that trust, and there have to be rules set by some outside overseer.
    — Matthew Ormseth, courant.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Green, the overseer of the D, would ensure effort returned.
    — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 16 May 2018
  • The area — in addition to the mansion itself, the ruins of the overseer’s house, and the quarters of the enslaved — are open to the public.
    — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2024
  • If instead the people are in the fields and there was a white overseer on horseback with a whip riding by them.
    — Jericka Duncan, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2020
  • The mad white overseer, who could not understand their chant, would chase the flying slaves.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The will designates his mother, Cleopatra Bernard, as the overseer of the will and estate.
    — Brett Clarkson, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 July 2018
  • The overseer threw a two-pound weight at Tubman, cracking her skull and nearly killing her.
    — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2019
  • As long as people think only nice thoughts about their overseers, all will be well.
    — Doug Bandow, National Review, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Both the money and need for a new space, according to the unit’s overseer, are sorely needed.
    — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Sep. 2022
  • In fact, the Speaker, Cameron Sexton, called himself at one point an overseer.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 9 Apr. 2023
  • The outside overseer will remain in place for up to 18 months, at the discretion of Feuer’s office.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Fittingly, a group from The Bushnell, where Schwartz is on the board of overseers, came out to cheer for him Saturday.
    — Lori Riley, courant.com, 10 June 2017
  • The overseer of the public finances, Rishi Sunak, has been expressing worries about the size of Britain’s debts, while pledging to square the books.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2020
  • And in a way, all market participants and overseers are to blame.
    — Bypeter Vanham, Fortune, 15 June 2023
  • In an 1899 book, a former Somerset overseer said that the slaves would drown themselves to escape bondage and some died from the work.
    — Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Williams is the more animated of the two and gives off a lot of energy, while Martin is more of an overseer.
    — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 27 May 2021
  • As the Fed’s chief bank overseer, Barr will be expected to quickly step up day-to-day oversight of the nation’s largest lenders.
    — Alex Nguyen, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2022
  • Three caucus overseers face felony charges for their roles in trying to overturn the 2020 election.
    — Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Norm, frankly, has had enough of all this weirdness and hacks the overseer’s terminal to send a message to the hitherto unseen overseer of Vault 31.
    — Jack King, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Besides working the land, cooking for themselves and their overseers, and being at Jenkins' beck and call, historic preservationist Karen Nance explains that the enslaved people also built the Jenkins home, brick by brick.
    — Doc Louallen, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2024

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