VERBIAGE in a Sentence

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 Meanings and Examples of VERBIAGE
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verbiage
 n.  pompous array of words; overabundance of words
Classic Sentence:
1  All else was verbiage, repetition.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
2  Again Chichikov tried to remark that Probka was dead, but Sobakevitch's tongue was borne on the torrent of its own verbiage, and the only thing to be done was to listen.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
Example Sentence:
1  Don't bore your audience with excess verbiage: be succinct.
2  After we had waded through all the verbiage, we discovered that the writer had said very little.
3  Pseudo-intellectuals spout obscure verbiage to hide the fact that they have nothing to say, hoping to bamboozle their audiences with highfalutin gobbledygook.