Example Sentences

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The victims died on Sunday and Monday in Minas Gerais state, where rivers have overflown, leaving towns partially submerged.

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2022

A misfortune, Sire, which has my heart afflicted At the moment when all joy Should have overflown and filled it.

From Life Is a Dream by MacCarthy, Denis Florence

It is so; and no doubt but our feathered favourites have overflown us.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert

No; he will draw a chair for Franconia, and seat her near the head of the cot, for the fountains of her grief have overflown.

From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by Adams, F. Colburn (Francis Colburn)

I have overflown myself, perhaps, but I can't believe it.

From Reprinted Pieces by Dickens, Charles