Example sentences for: overused

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

  • Most overused cliché : Celebs dying alone and heartbroken.

  • The cab of taxicab is from cabriolet , a light passenger cart; and hack is hackney coach , a coach for hire, hackney or hack being a hired horse and by extension anything shoddy and overused, whence hack-word and hackneyed phrases.

  • But even at his most glibly nihilistic, in A Clockwork Orange , Kubrick foresaw the punk movement in a way that makes the overused term visionary seem an understatement.

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

  • "Conflict of interest" is an overused and underanalyzed concept.


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