Example Sentences

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I definitely got my overdramatic self from her.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2023

It is, to be clear, an overdramatic slogan.

From The Verge • Jul. 27, 2022

As a songwriter you sometimes get those hole-in-ones, and I'm just so grateful because it's not overdramatic for me to say that it changed my life.

From BBC • May 12, 2022

He narrated it all with a kind of breathlessness that could be overdramatic, but that was his point: Everything had inherent drama, everything mattered.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2022

Though it once helped convince millions of the truth of spirit communication, her Victorian-era writing is so overdramatic, that today, most of the book reads as proof against spirit existence.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock