prolix

Example Sentences

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The world premiere, “Have We Met?!,” choreographed by Juliano Nunes, is a 33-minute, two-part, prolix affair for two featured couples.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025

It’s hard to imagine a more committed recording; but if there are moments in the first three movements when Rott’s promise truly shines through, there’s nothing Hrusa can do for the absurdly prolix finale.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2022

A certain type of actor thrives in these prolix circumstances.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021

On airplanes, she said, she could quickly shut down the annoying small talk of prolix seatmates when they asked, “What do you do?”

From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2021

In another place in the same lives his tumid and prolix eloquence disembogues itself to prove, what no man ever doubted, viz.

From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous