Example sentences for: verbiage

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

  • Puffy, bureaucratic verbiage if often called gobbledygook, a word credited to Texas congressman Maury Maverick, who compared the tortuous (and torturous) prose of Washington bureaucrats to the senseless gobbling of turkeys.

  • ) Today, of course, government pronouncements constitute a small and probably shrinking proportion of all verbiage that is in some sense "national."

  • Lower down in the verbiage, Amazon concedes, "Though we have tried hard to make this form easy to use, we know that it can be quite confusing the first time."

  • If one's field touches on the medical profession, insurance, or any other area concerned with the bureaucracy (which I am always tempted to spell bureaucrazy), this is an essential aid in unraveling and clarifying—insofar as is possible—the verbiage that assails one from all sides.

  • ? Heteronyms, absent extraneous verbiage, reinforce the standard-daylight time changer, “Spring ahead, fall back.”


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