He missed the woods for the trees when he focused only on the budget line items.

By focusing on minor errors, she was missing the woods for the trees and overlooked the project's main goal.

By focusing only on minor details, the team is missing the wood for the trees and risking the project's success.

Despite his friends' concern, he insisted his thin appearance was due to miss-meal colic, a consequence of his habit of skipping meals.

The blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo left the audience roaring with laughter.

The abandoned ballroom had a Miss Havisham-esque air, with torn lace curtains and clocks frozen at tea-time.

When you obsess over minor design tweaks, you can miss the forest for the trees and lose sight of the product's core purpose.

If you only listen for facts, you can easily miss someone's point about how they feel.

When she kept rearranging the minor agenda items, she began to miss the woods for the trees and lost sight of the project's main objective.

If you focus only on minor details, you will miss the wood for the trees.