Example sentences for: overused

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

  • The most overused, overworked, hackneyed word in the cliche-ridden vocabulary of pols and their speechwriters, D.C. bureaucrats, think-tank thinkers, pundits and even lowly working reporters condemned to write about legislation and policy making.

  • These may be overused, and they are certainly noun-verbs; but they most decidedly are not non-verbs, as the LSSU P.R. pundits declared.

  • Mundell's work is so central to that field, so "seminal"--an overused term that really applies here--that on many disputed issues his ideas are the basis for both sides of the debate.

  • Sometimes when a word is used frequently something else happens too, and a real mess results with a wrong word overused.

  • Most overused cliché : Celebs dying alone and heartbroken.


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