Example Sentences

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As U.N.-run shelters have overflowed, many have been forced to sleep on the streets outside in cold, rainy weather.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2023

As shelters have overflowed, people have been forced to sleep on the streets outside, even as winter rains have pelted the coastal enclave in recent days.

From Washington Times • Nov. 21, 2023

Rivers, large and small, have overflowed their banks.

From NewsForKids.net • Aug. 29, 2022

Quarantine facilities and hospitals have overflowed with people who tested positive, who must be confined in such facilities even if asymptomatic.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2022

But I regret to say that the lady in question has not cared to monopolize my attentions so exclusively as I could wish, and they have overflowed, as it were, upon others occasionally.

From Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces by Eveleth, Stanford