What is "overuse"

Usage examples of "overuse".

Well, think of how fi-equently you see the words sale, value, service, quality and other overused, flat, forgotten marketing verbiage that no one truly hears or registers anymore.

Her coverlet smelled comfortably of use and herbs, tempting her to stay in bed a while longer, resting the muscles she had overused the day before.

Through the years that direction becomes overused, and weak and unpleasant, and since we are bound to that particular direction we become weak and unpleasant ourselves.

Bowlers hurled a hard cork ball, battered by overuse, down a strip of dirt marked by sets of improvised stumps, and batsmen swung homemade bats with abandon.

The other was thrust into a nanomanipulator, and it was made obvious, through glorious overuse of radiant tromp l'oeil, that the atom-humping cherubs were all dancing to his tune, naiads to the Engineer's Neptune.

Forward, some crewmen muttered among themselves that minor was a word suffering from overuse, that nuclear submarines did not run on diesel and ventilate with surface air for the hell of it.

He had no matches by the bed because he was not smoking and the flashlight battery had been overused by the servants while he was away and was dead.

Regardless, she strained to focus her thoughts on her new assignment, an article about the overuse of herbicides and pesticides on Midwestern farms and the recent discovery that those poisons had passed through the soil and now were present in alarming quantity in the water supply of various cities.

He'd felt that since his first runabout approach, since he first saw the great unlubricated wheel cranking in space, cast in methyl violet and frosted with the cold light of the Bajoran sun, grizzled with patina not of age, but of overuse.

This is partially due to the fact that invincible (or nearly so) heroes are not terribly interesting, and further gives evidence of the repetitiveness of the choreography and an overuse of CGI and motion capture that turns the actors into obvious cartoons.

But their natural functions remained, and the toilet facilities were filling and clogging from overuse.

In my opinion, Dad overuses you, and it's cost him some of the edge off his old sharpness.

Harry pointed out the consequences of overusing fuel in a way that was so oblique as to be opaque to an outsider.

If I wasn't of the opinion that coincidences are merely chance or an overused Dickensian plot device, I might conclude that an old enemy of yours wants to get even.

She added olives and chopped cucumbers, walnuts, and sometimes roasted red peppers and white beans, but never chicken, breasts, which Heaven thought the most overused item in American restaurants.