Example sentences for: overly

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

  • But we think that some progress would be made simply by avoiding overly broad definitions of EBM and by abandoning all talk of paradigm shifts.

  • Chicanos also often use the term, as they do agringado, to describe an overly acculturated Chicano, one who is trying to be “white.”

  • I wish this piece had included the idea that you will be using paste your whole life and that that means a lot of tubes--and overly built pumps just for the "aesthetic" value are a bad deal for the environment.

  • In the overly replete world of Funes there were nothing but details, almost contiguous details.”

  • And I only praised Giuliani's press strategy for instilling the kind of staff loyalty that Al Gore so desperately needs; I duly noted that it's "overly suspicious and vituperative."


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