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.


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