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How to use overstuff in a sentence

14 example sentences · verb

Overstuff means to stuff to excess. Example: “On this chaotic, overstuffed record, West’s divorced-guy energy cannot hide his declining artistry.”

More sentences with overstuff

  • On this chaotic, overstuffed record, West’s divorced-guy energy cannot hide his declining artistry.2021 August 31, Elliot Hoste, “Kanye West enters his dad-rap era with new album Donda”, in New Statesman, archived from the original on 18…. From the entry divorced-guy energy
  • In deliberate contrast, the soft room was outfitted with overstuffed chairs and painted a deep blue.2015 April 22, Allison Oligschlaeger, “West Valley police open 'soft' interview room for victims of violence”, in Deseret News, →ISSN. From the entry soft room
  • They will have been driven in an overstuffed, underboosted car, to a party somewhere, sometime.2013, Daisy Waugh, I Don't Know Why She Bothers, →ISBN. From the entry underboosted
  • Examination rooms contain shelves overstuffed with football helmets, autographed equipment and even rugby gear.2011, Mel LeCompte, The Tee Cotton Bowl. From the entry triple
  • I hope you enjoy this endlessly overstuffed clown car of trivia (Ken Jennings's Trivia Clown Car?).2008, Ken Jennings, Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac, page ix. From the entry clown car
  • This overstuffed, smug, showy and sentimental music can almost persuade when it is performed with undoubting conviction.2002 October 6, Mike Greenberg, “Guest, symphony an adept team”, in San Antonio Express-News, page 8B. From the entry undoubting
  • No overstuffed chairs here; just slender, carved legs, and curved arms, ribbonbacks and French satin cushions.1982, Marjorie Eatock, Stolen Holiday, page 120. From the entry ribbonback
  • Firefighters were hampered by toxic fumes from polyurethane mattresses and overstuffed furniture.1977 December 31, “One Person Dies in Castro Baths Fire”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 3. From the entry polyurethane
  • Always use a layer of wadding or cotton overstuffing to make the work smooth.1920, Furniture Manufacturer and Artisan, volume 19, page 49. From the entry overstuffing
  • Friends alerted us to an overstuffed chair that someone on the far side of the ballpark was, outrageously, throwing out.1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry overstuffed
  • He guzzled shamelessly, pushing food into an overstuffed mouth, his eye glazed to all intrusion on a gastric debauch.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 68. From the entry overstuffed
  • It’s a creaky old Victorian mansion, full of overstuffed chairs, flocked wallpaper, stained glass, creepy carnival curios, and dozens and dozens of clocks.2018 September 19, Katie Rife, “Eli Roth, of all directors, brings Amblin magic to the kid-lit horror of The House With A Clock In Its…. From the entry curio
  • Overstuffed, inevitably, with vatapá, a creamy paste flavored with seafood and nuts; caruru de quiabo, an onion-and-ginger-laced okra gumbo; and bacalao salad.2011 January 11, Dave Cook, “Point Brazil”, in The New York Times. From the entry vatapá
  • To remedy this, additional stuffing is pushed up under the overstuffing so as to crowd it out and fill up all hollows.1914, John Wesley Stephenson, Furniture Upholstering: A Practical Handbook for the Upholsterer. From the entry overstuffing

Meaning of overstuff

  1. verb To stuff to excess.
  2. verb To cover completely with soft upholstery.

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Questions about overstuff in a sentence

How do you use overstuff in a sentence?
Overstuff is used as a verb. For example: “On this chaotic, overstuffed record, West’s divorced-guy energy cannot hide his declining artistry.”
What is a short sentence with overstuff?
“Firefighters were hampered by toxic fumes from polyurethane mattresses and overstuffed furniture.”
What does overstuff mean?
Overstuff means to stuff to excess.

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