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.


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