OVERBLOWN in a Sentence

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1. Once she had seen Belle in a store, a coarse overblown woman now, with most of her good looks gone.

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 Meanings and Examples of OVERBLOWN
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overblown
 a.  puffed up with vanity
 a.  past the stage of full bloom
Classic Sentence:
1  Once she had seen Belle in a store, a coarse overblown woman now, with most of her good looks gone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
2  Shrinking from that life he turned towards the wall, making a cowl of the blanket and staring at the great overblown scarlet flowers of the tattered wallpaper.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence:
1  He's not really a scientist; he's just an overblown technician.