Example sentences for: overheated

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

  • Well, Oprah" (Mim Udovitch, New York ). The main gripes: that The Kiss represents an act of self-plagiarism, since Harrison's first novel recounts the same story; that her prose is by turns flat and overheated, "chockablock with romance-novel clichés" (Jonathan Yardley, the Washington Post); and that her need to confess is self-indulgent.

  • The big driving numbers, like "What You Own," [LINK TO AUDIO] come out sounding like, say, Blue Öyster Cult, full of the same charmingly overheated metaphors:

  • Heavy-handed seasoning with overheated quotes.

  • Four decades after it exploded, tourism on the islands overheated, leaving in its ashes a forest of massive, block-booked hotels and beach-hugging villa communities with few discernible ties to Spain—places lined with German bier halls, English fish ‘n’ chips joints, and low-rent bars and discos.

  • You won't believe, children, what a literary-intellectual event this overheated stew of the obvious and the idiotic became.


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