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Example Sentences
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Long steam tables stuffed with both overboiled and dried-out foods, a stone-faced chef at the end of the buffet, carving away at a hunk of meat for an unending line of hungry diners.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 9, 2023
Black coffee, overboiled eggs and toast charred on a wire contraption each morning; boiled potatoes and baked beans or spaghetti and Prego on the two-burner propane stove for dinner.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2023
Her writing is sharp, acute, with social observations and convincing relationships that outweigh the sometimes outlandish plot turns and overboiled symbolism.
From The Guardian • Oct. 3, 2014
His mythological scenes, in imitation of Titian, were leaden and vacuous; his nudes, meant to emulate Rubens, had the consistency of overboiled gnocchi; homage kept turning into parody.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was like a great white soggy overboiled cabbage.
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
