Example sentences for: overly

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

  • This ‘traditional’ village is perhaps overly touristy for some but it is still very much lived-in and extremely well-kept, with brilliant whitewashed walls accented by brightly painted windowframes and charming potted plants.

  • No, it isn't, says Clift, who doesn't think Americans are overly upset by sex-related cover-ups.

  • (Such overly precise reporting could be justified in a paper if intended to help the reader duplicate the calculations, rather than as a conclusory statement.

  • When a decision-maker is more conscious of costs than of benefits, he tends to make decisions that are overly conservative.

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


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