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Example sentences for "overdone"

Lexicographically close words:
overdependence; overdid; overdo; overdoes; overdoing; overdose; overdraft; overdraw; overdrawn; overdress
  1. I have overdone the advice, I see; yes, I've overdone it, and I crave your pardon for the same.

  2. It is the quality of overdone or ill-expressed enthusiasm to silence that which is more rational and real.

  3. If it is covered with a red or purple film, it is overdone or "burnt.

  4. Overdone assays show a straw yellow colour which deepens on standing.

  5. The titration in the presence of zinc is comparatively easy, but, in learning it, it is well to have a burette with cyanide so that if a titration be overdone it can be brought back by the addition of 1 or 2 c.

  6. When you put enough feeling into your speeches they will sound overdone to you, unless you are an experienced speaker.

  7. The retablo is a good specimen of early Gothic work, and I could not help thinking how much better such an one is than the many overdone chirrugueresque atrocities met with in more famous places.

  8. There are the usual overdone chirrigueresque altars which do their best to mar this imposing church, though I am glad to say they hardly succeed.

  9. The grey tones of the lichen-covered stone redeem the somewhat overdone florid design, and it stands well above a double flight of steps on the east side of the huge Plaza Mayor.

  10. The overdone chirrugueresque work, to which add these fantastic wall decorations, makes this interior positively scream.

  11. He is a weaver from Yorkshire, who has rather overdone himself between his weaving and his mathematics, both indoor work, you see; and being a great friend of mine, he naturally came to me to get him some outdoor work.

  12. It is clear you have overdone it and need a period of recuperation.

  13. It is strenuous and very hard work, but if not overdone it is not too taxing for the average girl.

  14. I hope I haven't overdone the thing," said he.

  15. She looked distressed, and he realized he had overdone the ferocity.

  16. As the above is for cutting, and many of my new removes are made from it, it had better be overdone than not done enough.

  17. And people did say that the Doctor had rather overdone it with young Toots, and that when he began to have whiskers he left off having brains.

  18. They say I was overdone in the cotton famine years ago just before I came to Clough End.

  19. But he had overdone his hit with her as well, and had the sagacity to wait for her remorse.

  20. The faithful retainer had overdone himself by that sudden outburst of decrepit hope.

  21. It could not have been otherwise under grossly overdone probation and suspensions, made binding by most ill-considered sentences to institutions wherein industrial and auxiliary averages have been cut to the pattern of habitual felons.

  22. This seemingly misplaced diversion is meant to drive it home, with the final word, that sport overdone at once locks arms with the criminal, and undercuts at the foundation of the national structure.

  23. Expect a spell of any kind of discipline to make up to men and lads, that of which they had been and are being cheated by grossly overdone sport!

  24. To her there seemed no reason why Bertha should have been overdone by the walk to Paston and back, while supper had not called for very active preparation.

  25. Hain't underdone it, and hain't overdone it a mite hev you?

  26. She had, unconsciously and in thinking of Peter, rather overdone the note of rebuke of his visit.

  27. Sam Price's were the approved methods in that section of the country, though Sam had overdone them somewhat.

  28. Instantly it realizes that it has overdone the matter, and makes a desperate effort to straighten back on its course.

  29. But this being our very first bear, we had overdone the killing.

  30. One night this actor was at supper with some friends, when a dispute arose as to whether his mimicry was overdone or not.

  31. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.

  32. The style was easily overdone and did not last a great while.

  33. There are certain characteristics of all the eighteenth century cabinet-makers, both English and French, which are picked out and overdone by ill-informed manufacturers.

  34. The 'Cambria' was overdone with canvas, but was unable to reef, owing to something having gone wrong with her peak-halliard blocks.

  35. We were glad to think at least that in all our publishings (some people consider I believe that we have overdone them), we had only touched in passing and in the most discreet manner on Miss Bordereau's connection.

  36. And as I looked again at the old woman's wrappings I could imagine that she had not wished to allow people a reason to say that the great poet had overdone it.

  37. We shall be overdone if we keep this pace.

  38. I found myself replying, without overdone brilliance, that that seemed a good thing.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overdone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affected; aggrandized; amplified; artificial; bedizened; declamatory; disproportionate; done; dramatic; elaborate; elevated; exaggerated; excessive; exorbitant; extravagant; extreme; flamboyant; flaming; flashy; flaunting; fulsome; garish; gaudy; genteel; glorified; grand; grandiloquent; grandiose; hack; histrionic; inflated; inordinate; insincere; labored; labyrinthine; lofty; lurid; luxuriant; magnified; mannered; medium; melodramatic; meretricious; ornate; orotund; ostentatious; overdone; overdrawn; overestimated; overstated; overwrought; pedantic; pompous; ponderous; precious; pretentious; prodigal; profuse; prosaic; rhetorical; sensational; sententious; showy; sonorous; stagy; stilted; stretched; superlative; tall; theatrical; tortuous; touted; unnatural