overstuffed

Example Sentences

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At times, however, the prose can feel overstuffed, as if mirroring the abundance of the dictionary it celebrates.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The album is overstuffed, eccentric, kitsch, dramatic and a little bit exhausting.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

Yet this crowded race, which is overstuffed with well-funded candidates equipped to go the distance, might be won with as little as 15% of the primary electorate.

From Salon • Jan. 11, 2026

It’s clearly a passion project, and like many passion projects, it can go overboard at times, grow overstuffed, not to say oversolemn — though solemnity, to be sure, is appropriate to the history.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2025

The dressmaker with her frilly, colorful creations draped on hooped wire, the overstuffed emporiums and their wonderland of goods, the rival general stores on either side of Main Street.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead