Example Sentences

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An evocatively realized setting such as Ms. Bigelow’s Washington nerve center can be ample reason to make a movie worth seeing, but three others that were overflowing with local atmosphere offered far more than that.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025

And industrial-sized bins in the main car park were overflowing after that weekend.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2024

By 1988, Putnam’s offices in the New York Life Building were overflowing, literally, with material.

From Salon • Nov. 9, 2023

For three months, storms had pounded California, and rivers in the southern San Joaquin Valley were overflowing.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2023

The food was elegant and expensive, and the aisles were overflowing with great streams of flushed and merry proprietors, all stout and balding.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller