Thesaurus / prolix

prolix

How to use prolix in a sentence

When they stopped for lack of breath, Master Baptist would ask questions, which usually called forth prolix replies.

It is prolix, and in many parts whimsical; but contains some of the boldest reasonings to be found in print.

I grant that they deck Nature with somewhat too prolix a grace; but is beauty always best seen in deshabille?

Baha's style is rhetorical, verbose, prolix, but with a certain strength.

This excuse may serve in lieu of a better for the somewhat prolix method in which these rules are presented.

Of the other islands of this archipelago no mention is made, to avoid being prolix, although there are a great number of them.

Perhaps I shall not be deemed prolix if I dwell with some particularity upon an occasion so historic.

The Republican platform was not prolix or very specific, but on general principles it took a positive stand.

He says I brought my afflictions on myself by writing too prolix letters several hours a day.

Here, too, lived a good old man and prolix poet, a friend of Tennyson.

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