overscale
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of overscale
Example Sentences
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In niches along the way sit a Salvador Dalí chair and the iconic overscale banquette from which countless guests have started taking selfies.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2019
The problem is that, as objective correlatives go, it’s so overscale it doesn’t really correlate.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2017
Because Hibler is passionate about food and design, Yantrasast designed an overscale kitchen so that multiple people can cook at the same time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2017
But Ms. Wilson, with her offhand intensity and overscale features — dramatically wide lips, piercing blue-gray eyes, architectural eyebrows — was more than holding her own in the rehearsal studio.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2014
She noted how the city had turned around in recent years by both not pursuing as many disruptive overscale Moses-style projects and by the organic regeneration of its neighborhoods and especially immigrant economy.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2010
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