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How to use overzealous in a sentence

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It is not the overzealous, fault-finding traffic officers who ambush motorists at every street corner.
Though the meat was fabric-thin and tender, orange peel dominated the sauce like an overzealous church matron, fustily perfumed and bitter.
At a few other places, overzealous cops were ready with their machinery without realising the changed timings.
The American Buffalo was brought almost to extinction by overzealous hunters.
Moisturizers also fill in and fortify gaps between skin cells caused by overzealous washing or hot showers.
One overzealous man even tried to sell him some overripe tomatoes once, and it took only one glare to send the man scurrying on his way.
The overzealous weekend soldiers prevented many of the veterans from getting to the car park next to their meeting room.
Nor is it a charge made possible by the Patriot Act, a simple overzealous attempt to keep America safe.
Shoppers are driven away by overzealous parking attendants, ever increasing charges for parking, no improvement in shopping facilities.
Advertisers had argued that to ban the advertisements would be overzealous political correctness.
If it were not for overzealous councillors, the country would not be worried about the eyesores that pass for townships.
Police cars, buses and disabled drivers have all been victims of overzealous parking wardens since the Parkwise scheme was introduced.
Parents cheered as their boys chased down fly balls and hurled them home, where overzealous runners were tagged out.
I feel it is very important to warn drivers there are overzealous private clamping companies operating on private roads in the area.
It's brilliant to see people reacting with this gentle, exasperated humour rather than resorting to hateful tirades and overzealous flag flying.
The story creates the impression that this was a serious violation of privacy rights by overzealous government officials.
He was indeed glad to get away from his wife, get away from her bustling officiousness and her overzealous approach to the events facing them.
What can you say to those people who are so concerned that perhaps there might be an overzealous prosecution of people in that community?
The charter is meant to protect people from overzealous government actions and oppressive laws.
The government should fire Ms. Adam and shut down her overzealous mob of language cops.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The overzealous trustee had exactly expressed his own wishes and anxieties.
Nor, on the other hand, was it overzealous in pressing its own claims too far.
It just appears to be another case of an overzealous federal prosecutor trying to make a name for him or herself without doing any fact checking.
However, we all have to guard against supporters, some of whom we won't know very well, becoming overzealous.
Stealing backward glances as he ran, he was always ready to whirl around and down the overzealous pursuer that outran his fellows.
Beyonce was pulled off stage by overzealous fan during a performance in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The politicians, as a rule, are not overzealous for your success.
Mouser was just trying to live up to his name, but the overzealous cat got in over his head Thursday when he got stuck between two walls.
At times Harris may have been overzealous in exculpating the subdeacons altogether.
Dezarnaul said the case serves as a lesson to overzealous authorities.
The actor, who is staying at the same venue where the men's India week is taking place, got into an argument with an overzealous photographer on Saturday.
Because of the long cold winter the flowers were late, but looked at their best when sliced by the overzealous contractors who presumably had a timetable to meet.
But it ain't so, and in fact, for the amount of backlash that happens as a result of overzealous proscriptions, companies should hope to become targets.
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