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  • Rainey's attempt to rebuild himself through more nourishing employment was a long day's journey into turn-of-the-millennium England: a land of insecure short-term jobs, strip-lit soporific offices, greasy chain pubs, over-furnished suburban homes and immense, irresistible supermarkets.

    The Pursuit of Okayness Paul Genders 2011

  • Halfway across the United States, our hired van has become the rolling equivalent of our sitting room: messy, over-furnished, full of competing electronic entertainments and pointless arguments.

    Tim Dowling: At the car wash 2010

  • By teatime I was back in that garish, over-furnished place in Leeds, sitting and smoking in a corner of the lounge, watching the young business men and brokers with their girls, who thronged the place.

    Movie Night 2010

  • The apartment was neat, and orderly, not over-furnished or tasteless, but there was a mix of styles, and periods you wouldn't expect to find together.

    BEFORE THE NEBRASKA SEA 2009

  • I've over-furnished my bungalow and potted an entire succulent garden.

    Martha McCully: My Reinvention Tour: The Venice Yard Sale 2009

  • The apartment was neat, and orderly, not over-furnished or tasteless, but there was a mix of styles, and periods you wouldn't expect to find together.

    BEFORE THE NEBRASKA SEA 2009

  • It was a beautiful room, high-ceilinged and well proportioned, but massively over-furnished for her taste.

    The Count's Blackmail Bargain Craven, Sara 2005

  • Mr Midsomer Knight looked at me coldly as I sat across from him in his frightful, over-furnished Norwood home.

    The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

  • Mr Midsomer Knight looked at me coldly as I sat across from him in his frightful, over-furnished Norwood home.

    The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

  • She led them into a smaller room almost as over-furnished as the hall but surprisingly welcoming and comfortable.

    The Lighthouse James, P. D. 1988

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