Example sentences for: over-the-top

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

  • The hagiographic John Kennedy Jr. tribute issue includes excerpts of his writing, portraits of him with his interviewees, and an over-the-top photo of him bathed in golden light.

  • And what about those over-the-top ads for Outback.com, which showed wolverines being turned loose on a marching band?

  • The gangsters, the militiamen, the porn actors, the over-the-top football fans--they're all fascinating, but I don't think that any of them says very much about most of us.

  • Rave after rave for writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's ( Boogie Nights ) star-filled film about a series of interconnected characters in the San Fernando Valley: "A wildly funny, truly wise and subversively sincere film about pain, forgiveness and the possibility of healing" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). The cast includes Julianne Moore, William H. Macy, Jason Robards, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Tom Cruise (who receives over-the-top praise for his performance as a men's self-help guru).

  • To varying degrees, the papers all note that the taped testimony did not feature the politically explosive emotions or over-the-top sex talk that had been rumored last week.


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