VERBOSE in a Sentence

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1. For once, his usually verbose wife was content to listen.

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 Meanings and Examples of VERBOSE
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verbose
 a.  wordy; using or containing a great and usually an excessive number of words
Classic Sentence:
1  Levin smiled joyfully; he was struck by this transition from the confused, verbose discussion with Pestsov and his brother to this laconic, clear, almost wordless communication of the most complex ideas.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 13
Example Sentence:
1  Someone mute can't talk; someone verbose can hardly stop talking.
2  How egocentric is it for these postmodernist writers to whip up these verbose tomes without the slightest concern about reader engagement?
3  For once, his usually verbose wife was content to listen.