overlarge
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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The “Hong Kong specialty” black pepper scallops — eight small ones for $33 — came carelessly jumbled on an overlarge oval plate, with one orchid blossom as decoration.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2019
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
How on earth to convey their outsize influence, the overlarge hand they had in molding who we became?
From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2016
Her tunic was overlarge, tom at the hem, and her eyes were bloodshot.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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