Example sentences for: oversized

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

  • Of course, the picture in your local newspaper of the fund-drive chairman handing an oversized check to the mayor features smiles that are scarcely more genuine.

  • Art critics welcome the expansion, pointing out that the gallery now can exhibit oversized installations most museums can't accommodate.

  • In Colorado, half-bottles of wine are illegal, but in Florida oversized bottles are illegal.

  • He has erected, at enormous expense, a European-style capital city, Yamoussoukro, in the interior of the country, and furnished it with, among other things, an embarrassingly gauche, oversized Roman Catholic basilica rumored to be larger even than St. Peter's in Vatican City--all this supposedly to serve the spiritual needs of the country's francisized Catholics, who constitute no more than 12% of the country's 11 to 12 million people.

  • The descendants of the sourdoughs (four of whom, early this century, first one of Mount McKinley's two 20,000-foot peaks, dragging with them a pine pole, an oversized American flag, and a bag of stale doughnuts) are, of course, less refined in their sensibilities.


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