Example sentences for: overly

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

  • You accuse me of being overly literal and insist that I'm not sufficiently sensitive to "surface, shape, color," and the formal qualities of art.

  • But before things get overly Aesopian (too late for that, you old fool!)

  • The overly respectful way the United States and its allies handled the tribal warlords in Africa sent an enormously harmful signal to the authentic democrats in Yugoslavia and Liberia.

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

  • In Reich's generally quite readable--though occasionally overly detailed--book, three strands of Rockefeller's character emerge, all of them reflecting the same degree of urgent vitality and, sometimes, an edge of self-destructiveness.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast