Example Sentences

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“We’re not playing great all the time, we’re a little overmanned at times.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2022

As soon as I saw Google, I lost the will to read because I was so overmanned.

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2016

Poor countries also benefit from moving workers out of overmanned farms and into factories, where they are many times more productive.

From Economist • Feb. 14, 2013

In contrast, Sport England has for 25 years been overmanned and unfocused.

From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2010

The boat was overmanned, and old Jacobs, the coxswain, had to order several of them to go ashore again.

From Saved by the Lifeboat by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)