Example Sentences

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The onsite inventory includes many new materials, overstocks, last year’s models and construction-project misorders.

From Seattle Times • May 5, 2023

Raccoons seem to regard humans as the rube roommate who overstocks the fridge and conscientiously cleans up after everyone else.

From Slate • Sep. 30, 2016

His work includes tableaux of empty shelves, overstocks of completely unrelated products in shuttered departments, and mannequins facing inward, half naked and seemingly ashamed.

From BusinessWeek • Jan. 30, 2014

Kids' fickle tastes ensure eBay auctions for the hottest toys, overstocks of past winners and frustration all around.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are first-rate business men: no auctions, which I detest: no overstocks, which will be the ruin of New York; well assorted, and in good condition.

From Journal of a Voyage across the Atlantic by Moore, George