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Example sentences for: overly

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

The film, smoothly directed by David Dobkin, has a neat farcical structure but is too in love with its overly tight-lipped protagonist and deadpan pacing.
When markers are linked, as in many of our simulations, this correction is overly conservative.
Data collection Reliability jeopardized by lack of common guidance in data collection; findings noncomparable; lack of quality control in data collector roles and responsibilities: impartiality threatened; overly loose relationship between data collected and the evaluation question; inadequacy of information
The Washington Times ' Brooke Allen likes the book, but complains that Eberstadt's tone becomes "overly messianic": It sometimes reads like a "pitch against the National Endowment for the Arts."
You can't be overly literal.