Example Sentences

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She pointed to higher demand and costs for chips, memory and servers that have been spilling into consumer products, as well as price increases to come.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

It says it is now looking at data from 101 treatment plants run by Welsh Water that have been spilling before they reach their permit capacity.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2023

Crime and sprawl from Houston, the big city next door, have been spilling over into their once bucolic towns.

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2022

Here’s a simpler, more convincing explanation for the sudden surge of measles: Much bigger outbreaks overseas have been spilling over to our shores.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2019

I was not pulling over four or five miles an hour myself, but that smooth, steep, unobstructed chute must have been spilling through its current at close to twenty.

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)