How to Use overstuff in a Sentence

overstuff

verb

• Don’t overstuff the blossoms, and be sure to twist the top of the blossom so the stuffing won’t leak out.
  — Caron Golden, Pacific San Diego Magazine, 18 May 2017
• Just be sure not to overstuff the bags, which will prevent the bras from getting fully clean.
  — Jolie Kerr, Cosmopolitan, 6 Aug. 2015
• Warming the tortillas, along with making sure not to overstuff them, will keep the shells from splitting.
  — Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, 9 Aug. 2017
• But first, a few sandwich best practices: Don’t overstuff.
  — Becky Krystal, The Denver Post, 22 Aug. 2019
• In order to achieve the best clean possible, do not overstuff the machine when washing sheets.
  — Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Aug. 2022
• Yes—both the songs and the set, at times, seemed overstuffed: with performers, with musical numbers, and with plot points to be hit, sung, spun, and moved on from.
  — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2023
• The rice wrappers can tear easily, so be careful not to overstuff them.
  — Rachel Ng, Outside Online, 5 June 2021
• The caramelized sweet potato doesn’t overstuff things either - and played well with the goat cheese, Swiss, arugula and griddle-toasted slices of Dave’s Killer Bread.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 4 Apr. 2022
• Some reviewers mention zippers that come unzipped when the bag is packed full, so be sure not to overstuff!
  — Amanda Constantine, Good Housekeeping, 26 Aug. 2022
• To wear one as well as the unofficial mayor of Toronto, just keep remember not to overstuff it.
  — Liza Corsillo, GQ, 30 Aug. 2017
• Put about ½ cup filling onto each circle (don’t overstuff).
  — Mary Bergin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2021
• Lesson number two: Avoid overstuffing duffel bags to the point of them being mistaken for body bags.
  — Katie James Watkinson, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Feb. 2023
• First, don’t overstuff the machine; aim to leave half to a quarter of the drum empty, which will allow water and detergent to fully penetrate and clean the textiles.
  — Jolie Kerr, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2020
• Is Everything Everywhere All at Once the zeitgeist movie of the year, or overstuffed multiverse nonsense?
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2023
• But as a cursory read of any OBX season 2 summary will reveal, the story was already overstuffed.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 25 Feb. 2023
• Thankfully, though, in a period when artists have been overstuffing albums with tracks to maximize the impact of streaming statistics on the charts, Vol. 1 weighs in at a lean nine songs.
  — Carl Wilson, Slate Magazine, 5 May 2017
• Their torsos look like Christmas stockings overstuffed with clementines.
  — Leah Beckmann, The Cut, 21 June 2018
• The main reading room is a little overstuffed with stacks, obscuring the grand, handsome space that Christoff has created and filled with elegant, bespoke furniture.
  — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2023
• That and stepping on that squeaking Sophie the Giraffe, running our hands raw cleaning bottles, and overstuffing diaper bags until both our backs were forced out of alignment.
  — Elyssa Friedland, chicagotribune.com, 9 June 2018
• But it’s also overstuffed, teeming with more characters and ideas than can be successfully scaled for television.
  — Joshua Alston, Variety, 30 Mar. 2023
• This is tied to the larger issue of overstuffing that dogs Ojai, and will be Mr. Smith’s responsibility to solve: While there’s joy in the festival’s too-muchness, the music would be better served by judicious pruning.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 11 June 2018
• To the north sat a region home to one of the country’s most robust transit systems, with weekday trains overstuffed with office commuters and an enviable network of buses responsible for tens of millions of monthly trips.
  — Ricardo Cano, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2023
• In general, productions are budgeted by the day; adding a whole day can significantly inflate a budget, so producers overstuff production schedules, often turning to overtime to remain on track.
  — Chris Stanton, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024