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Usage examples of overreact.

Maybe you think I overreacted, but by sliding gently back and forth, one can slip stockings off the legs.

She had never been one to overreact to, or romanticize, a good fuck, but her liaison with Chev had resulted in a startling communion, and it had stirred her in unexpected ways.

Inglewood were rooted in part in a visceral hatred of labor unions, a hatred that caused it to overreact to the provocations of its archenemy, the United Food and Commercial Workers.

It is only in retrospect that it seems we overreacted to the fact that the hospital held enemy sick and wounded.

Drusus had to himself, he disciplined his body to stillness and his anger to detachment, for he told himself that perhaps Cratippus was overreacting, that things might not be as bad as the servants obviously thought.

Char practiced putting up a mental barrier to keep her presence inconspicuous, but no one paid her any mind anyway, so she decided she was overreacting and quit it.

Consequently, they often overreact to popular unhappiness and exaggerate the threats to them from taking action such as supporting U.

In December 1998, Desert Fox struck at this target set and Saddam became so concerned that he overreacted, ordering emergency security measures that set off small uprisings throughout Iraq.

He just hoped that when the showdown came at Andrews, nobody would lose their head or start overreacting in the ways that get people killed.

If she overreacts (a little) to what’s been done to her, it doesn’t bother me.

He is paranoid about his internal security and invariably overreacts to internal threats.

See, the trouble is, Edward's got my brother cornered in the pantry, overreacting, Charles I mean, he always overreacts, and here I am on top of this building in New York and I'm having this kind of, um, disturbance, you know?

The only conclusion Hunt could draw was that Pacey had totally misinterpreted something and overreacted, which seemed strange for the kind of person Hunt had judged Pacey to be.

Maybe Sutcliffe was getting twitchy, and had overreacted when Patrick started nosing around.

You arrive here at a time of crisis for us and I would rather be made to look silly by overreacting than to run the terrible risk that underreacting entails.