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adjective

profuse

abundantly plentiful; extravagant

In a sentence

Six example sentences with profuse, each labelled with its topic.

  • The chef offered profuse apologies and a free dessert after the kitchen sent out the wrong fish twice.

    Cooking

  • After three weeks of rain the hillside produced profuse growth, with ferns covering ground that had been bare gravel.

    Environment

  • Profuse sweating in the first ten minutes tells you the room is too warm, not that the workout is working.

    Fitness

  • The acknowledgments run to profuse thanks for forty people, which suggests the novel was harder to write than it reads.

    Literature

  • Profuse spending on office perks looked generous until the seed money ran out eight months early.

    Startups

  • The baroque ceiling is profuse with gilded cherubs, so many that the eye never finds a place to rest.

    Art

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