When giving a speech, it is always a good idea to get to the point and to not be too verbose. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective : a verbose report. From Dictionary.com.
But my tendency to be verbose is better suited to phone or email. From Wordnik.com. [Don McNay: Be first in your age group to embrace technology] Reference
Senator Obama can you define the word verbose in less than 10,00 words?. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
She wasn't what you would call a verbose girl, but. From Wordnik.com. [IGN Complete] Reference
I fondly recall verbose walk-and-talks in the halls of the Bartlett White House. From Wordnik.com. [Sundance Interview: John Wells, Director of The Company Men | /Film] Reference
Neither of us was what anyone would call verbose, and I didn't know what there was to say regardless. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight]
Upon booting in "verbose" mode, I get the following. From Wordnik.com. [Discussions: Message List - root] Reference
So how is what I wrote "verbose" (considering the length of my contributions) and/or. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
We have used the level "verbose", there could be a higher debug level of logging, but we've not tested that. From Wordnik.com. [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference
If it weren't for them I'm convinced I'd not be able to touch type, nor would I know the defenition for "verbose". From Wordnik.com. [Comments for ArsGeek] Reference
I'm sorry my reply was so "verbose," Aschlafly, but you make it so difficult to be succinct when there's so much you don't know. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
"verbose" Twitter friends by temporarily unfollowing them. From Wordnik.com. [Twitter Fan Wiki] Reference
"He's not only an arrogant man, but a verbose bore.". From Wordnik.com. [PERISCOPE] Reference
'Cause I get, s a writer I am quite verbose, you know. From Wordnik.com. [James Hunter: 'People Gonna Talk'] Reference
COOPER: He's not a great debater because he's verbose?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2004] Reference
A natural choice for a verbose person with AIDS, right?. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas DeLorenzo: A Pre-Existing Condition Can Wreck Your Whole Day] Reference
Dundee interrupted the fond father's verbose explanations. From Wordnik.com. [Murder at Bridge] Reference
BOUDREAU: But Joe Biden wasn't always so famously verbose. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2008] Reference
I think there are ways of being eloquent without being verbose. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Spencer's Small-Town Maelstrom] Reference
MATALIN: Are you suggesting that they haven't been more verbose?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 22, 2009] Reference
In style they are verbose and heavy and very frequently polemical. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
I will endeavour not to be more verbose than the occasion requires. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
His reply was an unnecessarily verbose, and needlessly forcible negative. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Pirate] Reference
Rather verbose that anecdote; but, pardon something to the memories of olden times. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The two men are Mutt and Jeff, warm and a little verbose versus precise and a little too cool. From Wordnik.com. [An Inconvenient Truth Teller] Reference
To me 'shooting' war was like saying a death murder-rather tautologous, verbose and redundant. From Wordnik.com. [The Art Of Thumbsucking] Reference
His prose is clear and elegant, occasionally verbose (usually for comedic effect) and always controlled. From Wordnik.com. [Speak, Memory] Reference
Worry not, for I am armed with my deadly bumbershoot to stave off all the mashers of my unsolicited arsenal of verbose thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from Urdoxa 2.0] Reference
Think Teddy Roosevelt, the last young, vigorous and verbose ex-president, sniping at his handpicked successor, William Howard Taft. From Wordnik.com. [A Strategy For The Wilderness] Reference
It is almost an axiom that the verbose student is considered brighter than those students who make fewer comments, however, pithy. From Wordnik.com. [From the Reader's Ingest, Mouth Theory] Reference
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