Sentence examples for overly helpful from inspiring English sources

Attentive, occasionally overly helpful service.

These nuggets of wisdom have been passed on to me by various Berliners, young and old, often in an overly helpful (aka slightly condescending) manner.

But instead of attending to suspicious clues — like the overly helpful neighbor who tutored Ofer in English — Avraham plunges into bitter self-doubt and reproach.

As I type those words into my computer, its overly helpful word-processing program underlines the last participle in red, as if to admonish me: "What kind of cockamamie word is overwatching?

Usual suspects abound -- the overly helpful and curious doctor whose dog found the victim, the set decorator who was once convicted of child molestation -- so that Harry can investigate in standard fashion.

On a recent Saturday, she rattled off a list of essential skills -- how to groom oneself, tie one's shoes, slice an apple, make a sandwich -- that blind children are often kept from learning by overly helpful adults.

Anyone who has suffered under the Atkins regime may feel familiar with the faintly hucksterish, overly-helpful tone of Gladwell's introduction.

Asking for special food was associated with a worry about being a burden to others, and to compensate, they described feeling obliged to be overly nice and helpful.

Um, oh, they can be, very really helpful or overly useless.

Participant feedback confirmed that national and local advisor recommendations had been effectively incorporated and also recommended the elimination of one learning activity that was felt to be overly technical and not helpful to explain or reinforce content.

Overly abstract definitions are often helpful only if you come to them already primed by context.