The cliffs overlook the sea
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"John completely overlooked his homework assignment". "The hotel room overlooked the white sand beach"
The inn is on a low hill overlooking the scenic beaches. He was worried that the researchers were overlooking a possible side effect of the drug.
She was willing to overlook her husband's peccadilloes.
Your question is itself a sentence which uses the word "could".
Very often, people overlook the importance of regular exercise in maintaining good health.
What she seemed to overlook was the fact thatevery timethe mouse ate the cheeseimmediatelyafter he would take a drink of water. This suggested to theexperimenterthe mouse hadadaptedsome sort of habit to always drinking after eating cheese.
She was always observant of the little details that others tended to overlook.
overlook
Yes, it is a compound word, one of few that has a meaning generally opposite of the constituent words (look + over). While an overlook (noun) allows one to look over, to overlook (verb) means to miss, fail to see, or not notice.
You could write the sentence with the word torrent like this: I don't know how to use the word torrent in a sentence.
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