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

In 1949, a young American artist named Ray Johnson left Black Mountain College near Asheville, N.C., moved to New York City and began to explore his prolix talents, both visual and verbal.

From New York Times • May 30, 2024

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

It is an exceedingly prolix and pretentious title, after the fashion of the time, prefacing a badly-written, poorly-printed volume of 207 pages, turned out by the press of Faxon & Stevens, Buffalo, 1848.

From Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier by Severance, Frank H.