How to Use verbose in a Sentence

verbose

adjective
  • He is a verbose speaker.
  • She has a verbose writing style.
  • Welcome to Sklansky’s world, who’s been taking the long, verbose way around the handshake for years.
    — Mandy Oaklander, Time, 27 May 2020
  • Lunny quickly follows up her verbose stance with an apology.
    — Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 16 June 2026
  • What may sound like a verbose exercise is made vibrant by King’s deft direction.
    — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Road to Glory has gotten a bit deeper with a more verbose high school experience.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
  • Why take on this verbose stage play adaptation for her directorial debut?
    — Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2020
  • Advocates and others say the verbose documents are hard to navigate and daunting when staff needs to know what to do quickly.
    — Claudia Lauer, Star Tribune, 25 June 2021
  • Better known for verbose retail politics than soaring rhetoric, Biden didn't ramble.
    — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Some believe that the human passenger should be able to activate a more verbose version of the commentary driving.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Styles speak-sings over cascading keyboards in his most verbose song on the album, which is also his most musically stimulating.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The slow, verbose world of academic communication has given way to the blistering, constrained world of tweets and news segments.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 7 July 2020
  • His verbose questions often took one side of the issue, as if playing gotcha in his Sunday interview program, when the point should have been to solicit information to help voters.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Today hosts a gentle Moon-Chiron trine, empowering your friendly 11th house and your verbose 3rd house.
    — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Liam Cunningham, always one of the most energetic and delightfully verbose members of the Game of Thrones case, was his usual self on the panel.
    — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2017
  • And notably, the notoriously verbose Biden has belied his gaffe-prone propensity by being mostly on-message lately — in part due to the pandemic, which has grounded him in more ways than one.
    — Star Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Not a verbose audit trail, but enough structure that a decision can stand on its own without interpretation—what inputs mattered, which policy boundary applied and how confident the system was at the time.
    — Narendhira Ram Chandraseharan, Forbes.com, 25 Feb. 2026
  • More than 90 senators populated the chamber for the debate — guarded by dozens of heavily armed police — and the typically verbose crowd had to keep their remarks to just five minutes.
    — Andrew Taylor, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2021
  • Director Richard Linklater is fond of a verbose protagonist; Hawke and Julie Delpy gabbed through three films’ worth of Before movies, after all.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Liefeld, similarly to his comic counterpart, is a quick-witted, sardonically charming individual who can fit more words into one brief exchange than even the most verbose orator that addressed a crowd.
    — Patrick Shanley, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2017
  • Instead, Reeves became Estragon, the more simplistic and long-suffering of the duo, while Winter tackled Vladimir, the more commanding and verbose character.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Quaid, who portrayed the imposing Cousin Eddie in the movie, said that Chase had trouble memorizing his dialogue while filming a particularly verbose breakdown scene near the climax of the film.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • But Dreher has been giving voice to the yearnings and frustrations of religious conservatives for many years—as a magazine blogger with more than 1 million pageviews a month, an author of best-selling books, and a deliriously verbose writer on Substack.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Tate’s ethic of linking the intellectual, practical, and transgressive dimensions of Black cultures came alive in verbose bouts of playfulness that came straight from his participation in Black communal spaces.
    — Tirhakah Love, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021
  • To that, the verbose CEO pumped up HBO and streamer HBO Max as the real crown jewels in the WBD empire.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 6 May 2026
  • Written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7 bears his recognizable fast-paced, verbose style and features an almost impossibly starry ensemble cast.
    — James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Either way, The Lowdown finds Harjo dipping into pleasantly familiar reservoirs of fiction in which the protagonists know how to take a constant beating, the malefactors are all suspiciously verbose and ostentatious hats abound.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Joining the verbose frontman in the lineup are guitarist Matt Douglas and drummer Jon Wurster, as expected, but not Peter Hughes, who left the band in 2024 after 30 years.
    — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 25 June 2026
  • But Schwarber's teammate, Nick Castellanos — who joined the Phillies on a $100 million deal after playing for two seasons with the Reds — was more verbose about Schwarber potentially joining his hometown team.
    — Peter Chawaga, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025

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