How to Use overlong in a Sentence

overlong

adjective
  • But with overlong episodes and lightweight plots, the show is holding itself back from something much greater.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 2 June 2026
  • There was a parade of nations, perhaps overlong, but analogue and human-scale.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 9 June 2026
  • This is a nearly two-and-a-half-hour film but Spielberg’s expert pacing keeps it from feeling overlong.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 13 June 2026
  • The pacing is overlong, removing much of the tension and excitement that make thrillers so fascinating to watch.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 27 Dec. 2025
  • This solid, slightly-overlong watch is best at capturing how time and trauma turn daily life into valuable history.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Some unnecessary, overlong scenes do drag, allowing the audience to get sidetracked.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 6 May 2026
  • Yet the historical resonance falls flat amid the film’s overlong runtime, unlikable characters and shaky accents that most actors stumble in and out of.
    — Itzel Luna, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Musically, Swift’s pivot toward concision feels like a response to claims that her last album was repetitive and overlong.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
  • But the overlong movie loses momentum despite the fun that Craig and O’Connor have as the two men develop a relaxed rapport while digging for clues.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Their new collaboration is more satisfying than that uneven and overlong puzzle box, not to mention more readily coherent as a narrative.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Despite spending the whole three-hour awards show telling people that their overlong speeches were losing the Boys & Girls Club of America money, the bit was a ruse.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
  • For instance, while most of the movie is about the title character, a 34-year-old lieutenant governor played by Emma Mackey, there is an overlong subplot about Ella’s younger brother, Casey (Spike Fearn), that encapsulates the tonal dysfunction of the movie.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025

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