Example Sentences

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Your sweet, admittedly not overbright, four-legged pandemic pal is enamored with the horror movie of the season: relentless hordes of fat and sassy cicadas.

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2021

Like those films, Velvet Buzzsaw is full of acidly overbright, larger-than-life figures who hold particular parts of their insular creative world up for mockery.

From The Verge • Feb. 1, 2019

Either way, it’s a legitimate mood in an overbright, bored world.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2011

They saw it as an arbitrary patchwork of overbright colors.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was pointing at Black, who shook his head slowly; the sunken eyes were suddenly overbright.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling