How to Use verbose in a Sentence

verbose

adjective

• He is a verbose speaker.
• She has a verbose writing style.
• Welcome to Sklansky’s world, who’s been taking the long, verbose way around the handshake for years.
  — Mandy Oaklander, Time, 27 May 2020
• Advocates and others say the verbose documents are hard to navigate and daunting when staff needs to know what to do quickly.
  — Claudia Lauer, Star Tribune, 25 June 2021
• Some believe that the human passenger should be able to activate a more verbose version of the commentary driving.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
• Liam Cunningham, always one of the most energetic and delightfully verbose members of the Game of Thrones case, was his usual self on the panel.
  — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2017
• The slow, verbose world of academic communication has given way to the blistering, constrained world of tweets and news segments.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 7 July 2020
• Better known for verbose retail politics than soaring rhetoric, Biden didn't ramble.
  — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 20 Aug. 2020
• His verbose questions often took one side of the issue, as if playing gotcha in his Sunday interview program, when the point should have been to solicit information to help voters.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2020
• And notably, the notoriously verbose Biden has belied his gaffe-prone propensity by being mostly on-message lately — in part due to the pandemic, which has grounded him in more ways than one.
  — Star Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
• More than 90 senators populated the chamber for the debate — guarded by dozens of heavily armed police — and the typically verbose crowd had to keep their remarks to just five minutes.
  — Andrew Taylor, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2021
• Why take on this verbose stage play adaptation for her directorial debut?
  — Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2020
• Liefeld, similarly to his comic counterpart, is a quick-witted, sardonically charming individual who can fit more words into one brief exchange than even the most verbose orator that addressed a crowd.
  — Patrick Shanley, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2017
• Tate’s ethic of linking the intellectual, practical, and transgressive dimensions of Black cultures came alive in verbose bouts of playfulness that came straight from his participation in Black communal spaces.
  — Tirhakah Love, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021
• I must confess … that if I had known how many classics there are in English literature, and how verbose the best of them contrive to be, I should never have undertaken the work. They only allow one seventy thousand words, you see.
  — Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out, 1915

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024