Example sentences for: effusive

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

  • The NYT says some of the letters were "effusive."

  • Every year, news stories about online Christmas shopping become more pervasive and effusive: It's fast, it's cheap, it's sweeping the country.

  • Imbued with the popular Catholicism of Poland--marked by effusive devotion to the Virgin Mary (an aspect of John Paul II's spirituality that discomfits Protestants and liberal Catholics)-- Wojtyla began studies for the priesthood in 1942 in an "underground" seminary made necessary by the Nazi occupation.

  • Blurbs from Brzenzinski (effusive) and Kissinger (guarded) reinforce the air of eminence.

  • So it seems to me to behoove those who believe in the virtues of marriage to be more effusive in their praise when a couple manages to carry off this difficult relationship (especially when it involves children) as well as the McCartneys did.


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