Example Sentences

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“She has no academic credentials, only her obsession — which is less with the actual woman, one feels, than with the poem’s copiousness, its mingling of grief, desire, revenge.”

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2021

We’re invited only to marvel at the copiousness of the term; Garber abstains from exploring how differently each party privately defines “character,” and why.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2020

The Brooklyn-born, Brussels-based artist, 71, has compared the copiousness of his work to an “everything” bagel.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2018

And that, too, feels like an important part of Clifton—her copiousness, her generosity—but more people, I suspect, will manage to find her in that shorter book.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2012

He had no doubt a rapid faculty of acquiring knowledge; but he owed the versatility and copiousness of his attainments above all to his unwearied industry.

From Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science by Fyfe, J. Hamilton