Sample Sentences for
effusive
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    "Is this the right road for Dictionopolis?" asked Milo, a little bowled over by the effusive greeting.†  (source)
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    Basil's effusive prose summoned our audience: The BCMA will be launching from their Cape Coalwood this Saturday.†  (source)
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    He saw her just as he had seen her in history class, a pencil between her teeth, one hand laid against the nape of her neck, lost behind her effusive hair.†  (source)
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    Sponsored by a major newspaper, the Johannesburg Sunday Times, their team had inspired effusive national pride and had received a personal blessing from President Nelson Mandela prior to their departure.†  (source)
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    DELPHI/HERMIONE (effusively): Men!†  (source)
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    No sooner had they dismounted in the stables than the reception rooms were overflowing with numerous unknown relatives whose unbearable effusiveness was a scourge to Fermina Daza, for she was incapable of ever loving anyone else in this world, she suffered from saddle burn, she was dying of fatigue and loose bowels, and all she longed for was a solitary and quiet place to cry.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    They ate, thanked Roxy and her man Zack in the simple uneffusive mountain fashion, and started away in the twilight of dawn.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uneffusive means not and reverses the meaning of effusive. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    The D.H.C. had at that moment sat down on one of the steel and rubber benches conveniently scattered through the gardens; but at the sight of the stranger, he sprang to his feet and darted forward, his hand outstretched, smiling with all his teeth, effusive.†  (source)
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    Clara thanked me effusively and found it ever so lovely, but she never put it on.†  (source)
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    Maybe I slapped her thigh in my effusiveness, I don't know.†  (source)
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    He sprung his secret about Huck's share in the adventure in the finest dramatic manner he was master of, but the surprise it occasioned was largely counterfeit and not as clamorous and effusive as it might have been under happier circumstances.†  (source)
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    Soon afterward a man wearing a suit came in, speaking effusively in Korean.†  (source)
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    The quality of Mrs. Bry's hospitality, and of the tips her husband had presumably imparted, lent to the manner of the English ladies a general effusiveness which shed the rosiest light over their hostess's future.†  (source)
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