Example sentences for: long-winded

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

  • Clichés in writing are another matter; depending on the style striven for, they might conceivably serve a function; as with everything else, overdoing them can create a long-winded, boring experience.

  • That other stuff on television--politics--is boring, long-winded; and politics vs.

  • A push for shorter stories--also said to be in the works--may well vanquish the elegant, comprehensive (OK, long-winded) pieces for which the paper is famous.

  • One of them, based on vague memories of the Elizabethan English of the Authorized Version (albeit much of its language was borrowed from Tyndale's 16th-century translation), is that Classical Hebrew tends to be long-winded and is overloaded with the equivalents of peradventure, verily, and Does it find favor in my Lord's sight?

  • The bishops give him long-winded answers that make no sense at all, at the end of which he asks again, confused: "May I with right and conscience make this claim?"


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