Disposed of more than could be supplied

Usage examples of oversold.

I knew my employer had oversold his holdings, but there would be no trouble in making up the five thousand head, as all our neighbors would gladly turn in cattle to fill the contract.

They oversold us, so now they have to blame us for not living up to a set of expectations they created in the first place.

But as a testimonial to his regime, the Bill of Rights at least had the virtue of being completely typical of John Diefenbaker: it was a well-intentioned, inexplicably delayed piece of legislation, so oversold to the voters that The Bill of Rights 313 eventually most of the beneficial if limited influence it deserved was dissipated.

Utah when a young woman boarded the oversold bus carrying a plastic laundry basket stuffed with shoes and clothing.

Jonathan oversold all his stories, so it was hard to know if this one was truly special.

He had already oversold his self-fixed limit, having parted with four hundred and eleven thousand shares.

Tony had been oversold on the idea that Thull was a human clock, and had therefore talked too much about it, because talking was his weakness.

In each case, the skeptics at the time grumbled that these theories were being oversold and that the results were either wrong or obvious.