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
I understand Ms. Zeisler’s arguments for resisting an overlarge tent.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2016
I hung back to defend our goal with a boy in overlarge cleats—he must have had Hobbit feet like me—and Persian hair even longer and curlier than mine.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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