Example Sentences

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At one point, too, she told Soderbergh she felt they had overworked the movie's intricate, time-shuffling structure.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2018

Beck Junior and his kissing cousin, Joe McEvoy, who was next up, had overworked a new wrinkle in abuse of the Fifth.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was tired, he had overworked, he had had an hallucination.

From A Spinner in the Sun by Reed, Myrtle

The other day I gave sleep suggestion to a young woman who had overworked herself in literary production.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo

She had overworked them all the previous winter, sitting up at night and struggling with her grief as she wrote Ormond; and she was now unable to use them without pain.

From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1 by Hare, Augustus J. C.