What is "oversized"

Usage examples of "oversized".

She stood quietly in the semi-darkness, illuminated by the glow of dozens of precisely imaged, hovering galaxies, watching and listening as the two most intelligent beings she had ever met in her life conversed in a steady hum of words, whistles, and clicks with an oversized insectoid who gleamed like an ambulatory topaz and smelled of orchids and vanilla.

Lorna Bland rang for the maid, Fanny, a small, desperately passionate-looking girl, slightly oversized in the right places.

He leaned back on his chair, huge fingers interlinked behind his massive head, his gaze fixed on the oversized holograph of his most recent concubine that dominated the far wall of the chamber, just above a security console that allowed him to monitor all the rooms of his palace.

The mousetraps were oversized affairs, big enough to catch a bear, thrown in the path of an advancing army.

Dimswart seemed to have been interrupted in midmeal and was servantless, bearing his own oversized black satchel with silver latches in one hand and a dripping leg of roast sarn fowl in the other.

The only visible damage to the manor was some broken stones at one corner of the tower where it looked as though a giant beast had nibbled at the masonry, and that was probably the work of the springald that Father Pascal had mentioned, but the oversized cross- bow had obviously broken again and irremediably for Thomas could see it lying in two gigantic pieces in the field beside the tiny stone village church.

With the arms and legs rolled up on the oversized pajamas, Tanny looked like a kid playing dress-up.

Harry was wringing his hands and shouting warnings from the sidelines, and the oversized trouper, Tor, had two of the other townies by their collars.

There were no giant otters, no oversized raccoon, and no lanky, bigmouthed young Anglo.

Even her jewelry, each piece of it, evoked a sense of its owner: heavy gold and diamond earrings so oversized she had to un clip them to talk on the telephone, and a pin fashioned to resemble a boutonniere, set with a stone an inch or two in diameter--as big as an actual flower--a sort of boldness that nobody else could carry off.

His chest was hairless, massive, signified by what must have been at least a hundred tattoos of identical cartoonish red ants with goofy popped eyes and oversized feelers.

She was examining the things I had bought, shorts, thongs, sunscreen, oversized sunglasses with dayglow yellow frames .

Amy pushed hard against the metal doorplate and the oversized, heavy door swung open as she knew it would.

He imagined the lighted machines looked a lot like six oversized refugees from a Gambian Feast of Lights.

Mario Incandenza who gets to ride along in the sidecar, carefully braced and strapped, the wind blowing his thin hair straight back off his oversized head, beaming and waving his claw at people he knows.