Example Sentences

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What the Valentine's cards forget is that the lovesick duke who speaks the words wants to overeat so that "surfeiting/ The appetite may sicken, and so die."

From The Guardian • Feb. 14, 2013

They were easier to swallow because they lacked liver's surfeiting taste, and a dessertspoonful in water or tomato juice once a day was sufficient for health.

From Time Magazine Archive

At first the effect was flat, then the subtle fascination of it grew until the very memory of impassioned tones was florid and surfeiting.

From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

Doctor Todd tried to effect a compromise by accepting two hundred thousand dollars outright, but the philanthropist did not believe in making beggars of institutions by surfeiting them with charity.

From David Malcolm by Lloyd, Nelson

Vindictively champing the end of a cedar penholder, he groped for expression: "Stygian ... sickening ... surfeiting ... slovenly ... sour...."

From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Brown, Arthur William