Sentence examples for an overly long from inspiring English sources

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Don't wait too long though––an overly long agenda can promote length and muddle!

Then, in an overly long monologue, Kelly pointed to her mother, sitting in the audience.

Center Kia Vaughn rebounded at the defensive end and threw an overly long outlet pass.

It's not an overly long hole, but a large, scruffy, gorgelike area — a filled-in old quarry — intersects play.

In most of the English-speaking world, "notwithstanding" is an overly long synonym for "in spite of" or "nevertheless".

Crisply shot and surprisingly well acted, "Mother's Day" suffers from an overly long script (a tornado hovers off screen to no apparent purpose) and annoying glitches in continuity.

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If you're an overly long-term thinker, you tend to override all other arguments with the logic that something is a good decision simply because it has the potential to provide value over the long term, as if being a "long-term investment" is itself a justification--or plans extending far into the future are inherently beneficial because of their range.

Here, as well as lots of Ls, you also have lots of Ss (straights) and Bs (bisexuals) and the first show centres on a bi-try, played by Mia Kirshner, spying through the hedge of her LA home on two hot chicks making out in the pool next door (great scene), but then we immediately go into an overly-long sex scene between Kirshner and her boyfriend.

But in practice, the additional games have further stretched an already overly long postseason, diffusing some of the excitement of the five-game format while rarely changing the outcome.

Sure, you could include links and various sections in a resume as well, but you risk creating a cluttered, overly long mess.

The relevant number in "Soul" is seven, which, after a labored, overly long set-up, is the quota of teenagers that a long-dead schizophrenic psycho killer is scheduled to carve up before the movie can end.

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