Example Sentences

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Kids who are sensory seekers tend to demonstrate behaviors like those your son exhibits, such as overloud or close talking and using other people’s bodies to meet their needs.

From Slate • Nov. 10, 2020

In the front row, a group of boys competitively manspread and occasionally burst into overloud laughter at obscure jokes.

From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2020

I’d dreaded a scene of open grief, but Fran filled the minutes and the hours by talking to me incessantly, in a strained and overloud voice.

From The New Yorker • May 23, 2016

Koreatown is an overloud, overdesigned nightclub squeezed near the top a five-story department store once famous for Art Deco interiors in shades of apricot.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2014

We too have uniforms, though they are more oafish than dignified—ill-fitting and in an overloud combination of kelly-green pants and a blinding sunflower-yellow polo shirt.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich