overfull
Example Sentences
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Its luggage room was overfull with spectacular quantities of luggage.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2025
Before she knew it, the rest of the cake was gone and she felt overfull.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2025
It’s likely that Mars Sample Return’s budget partly caused the layoffs, but they also came down to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory having an overfull plate of planetary missions and suffering budget cuts.
From Salon ● May 3, 2024
Or, if the way you eat leaves you perpetually hungry, tired and cranky — or perhaps overfull, lethargic and uncomfortable — there’s clearly room for positive change.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2023
The huge demand for inmate labor kept the prison overfull, while Clinton prison, far from downstate markets, was partly empty.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
