VERBIAGE in a Sentence

Learn VERBIAGE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for VERBIAGE, such as:

1. All else was verbiage, repetition.
2. After we had waded through all the verbiage, we discovered that the writer had said very little.

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 Meanings and Examples of VERBIAGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
verbiage
 n.  pompous array of words; overabundance of words
Classic Sentence:
1  All else was verbiage, repetition.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
2  Again Chichikov tried to remark that Probka was dead, but Sobakevitch's tongue was borne on the torrent of its own verbiage, and the only thing to be done was to listen.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
Example Sentence:
1  Don't bore your audience with excess verbiage: be succinct.
2  After we had waded through all the verbiage, we discovered that the writer had said very little.
3  Pseudo-intellectuals spout obscure verbiage to hide the fact that they have nothing to say, hoping to bamboozle their audiences with highfalutin gobbledygook.