Words similar to verbose
Example sentences for: verbose
How can you use “verbose” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
If our software is occasionally too fat, we developers fall back on the same excuse philosopher Blaise Pascal offered three centuries ago for his verbose letters: "I have only made this [letter] longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
At other times Exley's smoky eloquence turns blowsy and verbose.
Phrases become more verbose and more redundant, but more communicative.
.. [but] by no means outrageous,” a third as “verbose or stilted,” and a fourth as “containing wording and punctuation that is clumsy, ambiguous, and redundant.”
Law language, it is generally agreed among lay people (with a few eccentric lawyers concurring), is verbose, pompous, archaic, and obscure.