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

He wasn’t a particularly gifted or prolix orator.

From Washington Times • Feb. 20, 2022

A certain type of actor thrives in these prolix circumstances.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021

Re-creating Odysseus’s trip from Troy to Ithaca, they touch on everything from Mick Jagger to mortality, with the witty banter of a prolix Hope and Crosby and the delicacy of a dragonfly’s wing.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2020

Hutton wrote in so prolix and obscure a style as rather to repel than attract readers.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various