OVERBLOWN in a Sentence
Learn OVERBLOWN 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 OVERBLOWN, such as:
1. Once she had seen Belle in a store, a coarse overblown woman now, with most of her good looks gone.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
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.
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.
Example Sentence:
1 He's not really a scientist; he's just an overblown technician.