How To Use Outsized In A Sentence
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A medical partnership led by your area's premier brain surgeon may enjoy outsized and growing earnings, but that tells little about its future.
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My agnolotti - outsized cheese-filled ravioli topped with parmesan shavings - were pleasant enough, but just didn't manage to get my tastebuds racing past first base.
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The most powerful secular landlords in England founded new communities for canons and built outsized churches for them.
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He cut a distinctive figure with his grizzled beard, smart suits and outsized spectacles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Eventually, they came up with three clickable buttons that are centered beneath an outsized, horizontal LCD screen.
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Men of large vision often display outsized foibles as well.
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Her brown boots with their outsized 12 cm heels are just too cool for her to worry about details like being able to walk without teetering.
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Maybe he received a garish jumper, a lurid tie or an outsized pair of slippers in his seasonal gifts.
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Over time, the imperial tented bed became an outsized symbol of the Empire style's most recognizable design.
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Following the Guardian story, readers have told us of their alleged sightings of a tawny brown, outsized cat around Leatherhead.
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The black-turbaned man with outsized feet, hands, girth, and ambition is a Sayyid, a direct descendant of the Prophet Mohammed.
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With outsized ears, the Black-tailed Jackrabbit is very distinctive.
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I believe that long-term outsized investment returns can be achieved by spotting trends early and continuing to examine the underlying assumptions.
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It's a roll call of outsized famousness that includes names of legends like Australia's Don Bradman, England's Jack Hobbs and the West Indian star Viv Richards.
The Greatest Story in Cricket
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I shouldn't complain, but I always feel such outsized portions are a bit unnecessary at this stage of the meal, and that starters should leave you wanting more, not unbuttoning your trousers.
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SYDNEY, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- A species of giant ancient turtle outlived most of the outsized, extinct animals known as megafauna -- until humans came along, Australian researchers say.
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She is mostly foreshortened, as though to emphasize the disparity between the experience of a child and the outsized world of grown-ups.
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Unusually character-driven for a genre that typically deals in braggadocious montages of big barrel riding, this polished Australian production is buoyed along by the outsized personalities of a pair of pushing-50 best mates.
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Then the poetry establishment's outsized accolades gave them too big an idea of themselves, and they each turned into an image of what they were supposed to be like: Olds the intrepid forager among women's dirty little secrets, Graham the Old World philosopher-deconstructer of language, Glück the pithy celebrator of the domestic everyday event, Levine the working-class sage with no chips on his shoulders.
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship
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Choosing what to buy in a climate where diamonds are bedecking everything from ladies’ décolletage to outsized gaudery, while changing colors and cuts at will, can be daunting, though.
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He holds back huge multi-pointed leaves to reveal plants thick with buds and outsized aubergines, the size of a well-blown up football.
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An outsized chef dressed in Austrian clothes, speaking Italian and serving classic German food is not as unusual as it sounds in South Tyrol.
Family ski: never say never in South Tyrol
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Several of his former outsized foes, including the giant moth-like creature Mothra, make comeback appearances in "Final Wars," which Toho is touting as its last Godzilla tale -- at least for now.
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By the time Sam sat down to share a cup of coffee with the famous badman at Rocky Ridge Station, he had comically inflated the real Slade into an outsized bogeyman for the purposes of underlining their argument over a last cup of coffee.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
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In the process, he's increasing the already outsized power of his tiny state in high-profile corporate transactions.
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Just how outsized is digital media’s presence in a child’s life?
Well Adjusted Teens Do Better on Social Media Sites | Impact Lab
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Bibis Italianissimo, a restaurant which he described as bringing "the ersatz glitz of the outsized Las Vegas cocktail lounge to a site abutting a car park".
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These sometimes terrible flubs were due largely, if not entirely, to Wilson's rigid personality and outsized ego.
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Everything about going to the movies today is outsized, except the size of the screening room you end up in.
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To be able to lift their outsized jaws, the assassins evolved elongated necks, giving the spiders a unique ability to strike from a distance.
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It is simply their attempt to screw some extra cash out of people by using mawkish good taste music and pictures of babies in outsized hats.
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Information is collected routinely on purchases of outsized clothing, or of slimming products.
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Even so, it would take nothing less than Babe Ruth's outsized personality and equally enormous home runs to let baseball fans believe again.
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The real cipher is to just get into the habit of noticing the small things that might bring about outsized improvements in our lives.
Resolve to Make Modest Changes | Lifehacker Australia
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In ye goode olde days the “gaps” greatly outsized the data, thus the primacy of God, tribe, ritual and family.
Repugnance Revisited, or: Are Economists Really ‘Evil’? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
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After all, Lloyd Doggett, a Democratic representative of Texas and senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, recently called outsized severance packages for executives "outrageous.
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Indeed, we suspect gold is likely to grab an outsized share of the immediate future, thanks to the substantial pressures weighing on the US Dollar.
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Nissan With its wildly outsized fender flares, saucer-eyed round headlamps, squat fuselage, tapering roofline and curiously latent, not-quite-formed rear contours, the Juke looks like a Nissan Murano at the larval stage.
Purposely and Deliberately Imperfect
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On one, a farmhouse is enclosed by a wildly outsized path.
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Lu You , anchors on CCTV, also said outsized incomes and high expectations had crippled men's soccer.
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As someone with experience training raptors for "outsized" quarry, I agree with Carl that this is not a difficult task, given firm grounding in basic techniques; although I take small exception to Carl's dim view of the motivations for doing this.
When eagles go bad, one more time... part II
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You open another and come across a giant animatronic cat, trying to catch an equally outsized mouse.
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Then the poetry establishment's outsized accolades gave them too big an idea of themselves, and they each turned into an image of what they were supposed to be like: Olds the intrepid forager among women's dirty little secrets, Graham the Old World philosopher-deconstructer of language, Glück the pithy celebrator of the domestic everyday event, Levine the working-class sage with no chips on his shoulders.
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship
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But the meritocratic system that produced Laura and me not only produced outsized expectations; it inculcated a belief that we deserved wonderful jobs and a comfortable lifestyle.
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A friend who found the former rodeo racer a desk job, owned an outsized pet chimp called Travis.
Times, Sunday Times
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The entrance is marked by the word ‘mediatheque’ printed in playful outsized letters on the sliding doors.
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He was an outsized presence who, for illustrative example, took a visceral delight in hunting elephants and drinking the soup made from their trunks.
Times, Sunday Times
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A larger frame woman would be more flattered by muted plaid, and no one really looks terrific in a completely outsized plaid.
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His energy, his empathy, his self-indulgence, his appetites -- for food (unsated as it must be these days), for sex (maybe sated these days, maybe not), for attention, for power, for good deeds -- are all outsized.
Michael Takiff: Bill Clinton, Still the Biggest Dog in Town
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Many communities have created outsized expectations by letting patients use E.R.s for non-emergencies.
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President Obama has chosen a less dramatic path -- moral suasion -- calling the outsized bonuses "shameful" and going several times to Wall Street to appeal for change.
Carla Seaquist: Recovery Without a Reckoning
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The characters involved in this phase of railroading history get less outsized treatment than their predecessors.
The Times Literary Supplement
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With its wildly outsized fender flares, saucer-eyed round headlamps, squat fuselage, tapering roofline and curiously latent, not-quite-formed rear contours, the Juke looks like a Nissan Murano at the larval stage.
Nissan's Jazzy Juke, Imperfect on Purpose
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For a petite and refined-looking woman -- who is often called a "Latina Audrey Hepburn" -- Mia has an outsized zest for exploring every uncovered wonder in this world.
Christiana Wyly: Twilight, Mia Maestro and the Call of Our Wild Side
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After establishing my credentials and getting my outsized but very tastefully colored beige identification card, I begin my search.
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I'm skeptical that there aren't equally outsized egos in the graphic design community, up and down the ladder of experience.
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A friend who found the former rodeo racer a desk job, owned an outsized pet chimp called Travis.
Times, Sunday Times
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What got most of the attention though was his large mouth and exceptionally outsized front teeth.
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Mr. SONDHEIM: No, I mean, we knew we were writing for that kind of outsized personality that she's got.
Look, He Made A Hat: Sondheim Talks Sondheim
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The story of the final weeks of the annexation issue, including the Stockton subplot, is best told through the personalities and machinations of the outsized figures involved—Stockton, Wickliffe, Sherman, Texas president Anson Jones, Sam Houston, and U.S. Minister Donelson.
A Country of Vast Designs
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The craft could carry 2000 pounds of cargo but it certainly would not be capable of hauling outsized equipment such as spare engines.
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Not every troubled-company workout generates for Third Avenue investors the kind of outsized profits that came from Whitman's decision to invest in bonds issued by a then-bankrupt Kmart.
Swimming Happily Against the Tide -- Third Avenue's Marty Whitman Finds Lots to Buy
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The men worked extra shifts when malfunctions occurred: heavy machine parts and outsized tools had to be moved.
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Since so many environmentalists think this way they tend to have an outsized influence on framing how environmental issues get debated.
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Many sins are forgivable, but charging handsomely for coffee that comes directly from an outsized tin of own-label instant is not one of them.
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Several of his former outsized foes, including the giant moth-like creature Mothra, make comeback appearances in "Final Wars," which Toho is touting as its last Godzilla tale -- at least for now.
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The sight of the outfield player anxiously pulling on an outsized goalkeeper jersey is too rarely seen in these days of substitute goalkeepers.
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The hype will no doubt be outsized, but I'm not sure how a 45-year-old suburbanite singing about bitches will play with his fans.
Shawn Amos: PLAY > SKIP: Albums You'll Be Playing in 2011 (Whether You Like Them or Not)
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He sat there looking down at her busy hands with a look of wonderment on his face; he might actually have been an outsized infant.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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Like opera itself, the novel is outsized and outrageous, with evil curses, nervous breakdowns, and overwhelming arias.