How to Use overwrought in a Sentence

overwrought

adjective

• The witness became overwrought as she described the crime.
• So, the ‘overwrought rhetoric about book banning has no place’ in this case.
  — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 21 Aug. 2022
• Onion rings would surely tip the scales into the overwrought side of things.
  — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 16 June 2017
• Dennis Quaid was over-the-top, the music was overwrought.
  — WIRED, 29 Oct. 2021
• Kendall Roy would hatch overwrought schemes against them.
  — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2023
• The ending, which attempts to meld tragedy and pathos, struck me as overwrought.
  — Walter Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2018
• But the jump scares aren’t scary, and the story is overwrought and unfocused.
  — Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2023
• The new cabin is airy, and the design never feels overwrought.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 15 June 2018
• There’s lots of talk of God and goodness; past traumas are overwrought.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2021
• But while the play asks big questions, its working out of the answers feels both wispy and overwrought.
  — The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
• Not the whole overwrought overman stuff, and not the conflation of pity and weakness.
  — Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• Songs roll in one after the next like waves, and nothing about his keyboards is overwrought.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2022
• There’s nothing overwrought about these five minutes of music, just the raw ache of what might have been.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2018
• Where Suchet is fussy and Branagh is overwrought, Ustinov is almost trolling.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024
• Nothing here is overthought or overwrought, either on the plate or in the décor.
  — Providence Cicero, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017
• Who would have thought that the 2nd most overwrought performance this week would be Kyle’s Little House on the Prairie episode from six faces ago?
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 July 2021
• The view of Kennedy as a vacillator is unfair and overwrought.
  — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 26 May 2017
• That’s our first cue that these inflation fears are overwrought.
  — Michael Foster, Forbes, 19 June 2021
• There’s a time and place, of course, for narratives to become overwrought with plot pretzels.
  — Washington Post, 1 June 2021
• The whole play gets elevated to a certain pitch, but does not get overwrought.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2024
• His story, which is loosely based on the death of his own mother, is not morose or overwrought.
  — Emily Zemler, Esquire, 8 Sep. 2016
• What if this tipping points meme is a bit overwrought and not as imminent as we have been led to believe?
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2013
• My genius kid will eat overwrought think pieces for breakfast!
  — Alex Baia, The New Yorker, 18 June 2021
• All this is not to suggest that all A.I. investment is overwrought.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 28 June 2023
• In a musical landscape that can feel overwrought, Orville Peck’s debut plays like a breath of fresh air.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 18 Dec. 2019
• At times, though, the Agnew-as-Trump analogy is overwrought.
  — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2020
• The overwrought Southwestern swagger of Boudro’s was lost on me during a review a few years back.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Sep. 2021
• But to argue that this is the main purpose of college athletics is overwrought.
  — Jenna Stocker, National Review, 24 Mar. 2022
• Here, Linklater eschews the overwrought trappings that these types of movies typically fall into.
  — EW.com, 26 Sep. 2024
• But the star is Bening, who has the overworked, overwrought and underappreciated Joy down pat from her first appearance.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024