How to Use wordy in a Sentence

wordy

adjective

• The original script was too wordy.
• For me, this is all a bit too wordy, too cutesy, and too much.
  — New York Times, 21 June 2018
• His first post was so wordy, Blogspot caught it as spam.
  — Adam Duvander, WIRED, 8 Oct. 2008
• Talk about run on sentences with grandiose and wordy prose.
  — Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 22 Feb. 2021
• That 2011 test message was a lot wordier than those used now.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023
• But, of course, this wordy reason can’t stand on its own verbiage.
  — Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2011
• Rock purists weren’t the only ones who rolled their eyes at the wordy song titles and self-conscious lyrics.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2020
• And something that is cross-wordy and boring would be rated low.
  — James Brown, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2023
• Mateen's fierce shake of his head speaks louder than anything in Sorkin's wordy script.
  — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 15 Oct. 2020
• Nobody wants to read an overly wordy newsletter that beats around the bush.
  — Yec, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
• Your words have to be clear, especially with the southern dialect in such a wordy song.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023
• Before The troll farm’s posts were wordy and included many hashtags.
  — Davey Alba, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2020
• To the extent anyone thinks the IRC is too detailed and too wordy today, Surrey has something to do with that.
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 8 June 2022
• The Welk’s set pieces and props are just adequate, and there were a couple of blips with the sound in the theater, which muddled some of this show’s witty and wordy lyrics.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
• And the hook here is wordy but memorable — everybody knows and loves the Minnesota Vikings call-out by now.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 9 July 2019
• Toss the wordy-word books aside and begin anew. Brudominasty.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 27 Oct. 2022
• Childress and Darrell Bevell installed the wordy West Coast scheme.
  — Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2021
• Lamar and Eminem, protégés of sorts, both write wordy, caustic, cerebral raps that move faster than any mind or mouth should.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2022
• That’s Marie, at the onset of menopause, experiencing a wordy hot flash.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 2 Sep. 2021
• Journaling gets a bad rap; as boring lists or wordy navel-gazing.
  — Erin McKittrick, Alaska Dispatch News, 11 July 2017
• Its more formal name is Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance, but that may be too wordy for conversations.
  — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 31 July 2019
• Shakespeare is wordy; Molière can be dated; Milton is often dull.
  — Adam Gopnik, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2021
• Gorsuch is also wordy, penning 19 long opinions out of 23.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 3 July 2019
• Those mashed hooks tend to form around the wordy deadpan of vocalist Andy Fox, who sounds completely at home in these riptides of intention.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
• McLaren had drawn up a ceasefire document full of wordy stipulations, which Caver signed in front of Evelyn.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2022
• Before Editor Ji, apps like Inshorts and Shortpedia, were launched to cash in on the demand for less-wordy, short-format news.
  — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 29 July 2019
• And that doesn't include the other slightly wordier ways in which Mueller declined to answer lawmakers' questions.
  — CBS News, 24 July 2019
• Perhaps the actors were just trying to remember all the dialogue in Christopher Hampton’s long and wordy play.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Nov. 2020
• Their nimble way with this wordy text is a thing to behold and illustrates neatly why this play was such an influence on Oscar Wilde.
  — Steve Heisler, Chicago Reader, 10 July 2017
• There do not need to be multiple footnotes and citations and wordy, number-heavy statements.
  — April Rudin, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024