overlong

Example Sentences

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Now Lerone Martin, a Stanford professor and senior editor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project, offers a rich if overlong retelling of King’s life prior to Montgomery.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

The only thing “Saturday Night Live” loves more than an overlong current events cold open is running a successful joke into the ground.

From Salon • Oct. 19, 2025

I wish the same could be said about his overlong dream-logic interludes, which tantalize as peeks into Frankie’s psyche but eventually feel like style filler.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025

He could commute overlong sentences that keep people locked up for no good reason and free geriatric prisoners who are serving out gratuitous mandatory minimums.

From Slate • Dec. 2, 2024

His black hair was overlong and his clothes were so mismatched that it looked deliberate: too short jeans, a shabby, overlarge coat that might have belonged to a grown man, an odd smocklike shirt.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling