Example sentences for: overzealous

How can you use “overzealous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Mike Males, the author of The Scapegoat Generation: America's War on Adolescents , tends to be overzealous when he argues that adults attack kids as a way of coping with their own problems, but he has a point.

  • Pollard is not just some confused, well-meaning, basically harmless spy who was railroaded by an overzealous judge.

  • Nixon's Watergate sins (dismissed by the public on the eve of the election as, at most, the work of overzealous campaign aides) caught up with him in his second term.

  • The Washington Post groaned that Burton "once again lived up to his caricature" as an overzealous idiot and pointed out that his real crime has been to distract attention from the transcripts, which indicate that White House "emissaries" encouraged Hubbell and his wife to fear their livelihood depended on remaining silent about the Clintons' roles in Whitewater.

  • Time 's profile of Kenneth Starr depicts him as conservative, overzealous, and nerdy.


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