I am practising verbosityfor the book I am going to write some day.
But, our honourable friend the member for Verbosity knows all about it.
Our honourable friend cannot come in for Verbosity too often.
He is the honourable member for Verbosity - the best represented place in England.
I will answer briefly, not to bore both you and myself to death with verbosity and also because I have to write to many others.
When, however, he presented himself before Colonel Belford, it was to meet with a welcome so frigid and an address so reserved that a douche of cold water could not have quenched his verbosity more entirely.
Pompously up and down his quarters he would strut, composing high sounding sentences and listening to the fine roll of his voice, revelling in his verbosity and smiling with satisfaction at his thoughts which he deemed so great.
Both are concise, relatively to the common verbosity of the bar; but Le Maistre has much more that might be retrenched; not that it is redundant in expression, but unnecessary in substance.
De Quincey's passages of splendid rhetoric are too often succeeded by dead levels of verbosity and laboured puerilities which make annoyance alternate with enthusiasm.
Hardly anyone who has written so much has kept so uniformly to a high level, and so seldom descended to empty verbosity or to downright slipshod.
The old fault of verbosity and "watering out" recurs; and so does the reappearance, with very slight change, of figures and situations.
It is one of the merits of Pigault-Lebrun that he is not a great sinner in verbosity and prolixity: his contemporary minors of this volume are far more peccant in this kind.
The Consolatio is, in fact, like many other imitations of the philosophical writings of Cicero, resembling their original in his faults of verbosity and want of depth, but flowing and graceful in language.
They have not elegance enough to compensate for their verbosity and emptiness.
He draweth the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Verbosity is cured (not by a small, but) by a large vocabulary.
The extracts from this author are intended to exhibit the dangers of verbosity and exaggeration.
Little by little he slipped away from the prudent barrier that was hedging in his verbosity and spoke with his old time abandon; but his flow of words did not exactly convey news.
And he said no more, wrapping himself in offended silence, relieving his Neapolitan verbosity with a series of shouts and grunts to his horse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "verbosity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
