Example sentences for: overwritten

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

  • That style translated into book form, however, makes this book seem greatly overwritten.

  • The film unfolds in flashbacks, as Ellen is interviewed by a district attorney about the circumstances of her mother's death, but the framing device doesn't generate any suspense, and the linking scenes are so clumsily overwritten that the woman might be talking to her therapist.

  • It is "here close to poetic, there baroque and overwritten, at once rich with insights and maddeningly reductive" (Tamar Jacoby, the Los Angeles Times ). (Buy the book online.)


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