Example sentences for: overheated

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

  • New York urologist Edward Moses employs the same overheated rhetoric on his Web site: "For many men, life without sex can be likened to a watercolor painting that should possess all of the vibrant colors of life, but which has been reduced to sterile black and white."

  • The president speaks here as if the battle against communism were an overheated World Cup match, rather than itself a struggle for democracy and human rights.

  • Ross wins some applause for her dishy revelations, such as Shawn's fondness for racetracks and sex, but also criticism for her ill-wrought prose and overheated tone.

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

  • 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.


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