overlarge
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Many were forced to wear overlarge Russian military uniforms that could make them a target, and a former city administrator trudged around in boots five sizes too big.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2023
And, in the evenings, gathered in their satisfying overlarge apartments, they drink wine from goblets with the ritual air of people taking communion.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 19, 2018
Yet it’s true, as Dean points out, that in the typical literary accounting of the last century, male novelists loom overlarge: Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Mailer, Roth, Bellow.
From Slate • May 8, 2018
Not long ago, my comic books felt as useless as those overlarge movie logo cups from fast-food places.
From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2013
As the party walked towards Cavern Hole, Cluny could sense hostility emanating from the young mouse who flip-flopped behind him in overlarge sandals.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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