Example sentences for: overpaid

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

  • It apparently never occurred to even one of these overpaid scribes to eliminate Hopkins' rueful realization that he'd "never write the great American novel"--no kidding, given his flagrantly Welsh accent.

  • When the Republican nominee portrays Gore as an arrogant Washington politician who won't give back the tax money you overpaid the government, Gore can remind voters that he defended "fiscal responsibility" against Bradley's reckless spending as well as the GOP's reckless tax cuts.

  • Although conservatives who inveigh against overpaid, do-nothing federal bureaucrats probably have in mind the Department of Health and Human Services, if your urgent need is a government job in general, rather than anything in particular that job might accomplish, apparently the Pentagon is your best shot.

  • Murray Kempton got this story right in 1955, in his book Part of Our Time . The Hollywood Communists, most of them screenwriters, were overpaid hacks, not dangerous revolutionaries.

  • Titans of industry as overpaid Ninja Turtles?


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