overfed
Example Sentences
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Before, she’d been “hiding behind facades, physically overfed and spiritually undernourished.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
“Conventional breeds were overfed protein, under ventilated and our recommendations for hatching were not followed,” Gies said.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 26, 2021
It always left us feeling loved and nourished, if slightly overfed.
From Salon • Mar. 18, 2021
A young veterinary surgeon begins to practice in the remote Yorkshire Dales in 1937, treating abscesses in horses’ hooves and milk fever in cows and prescribing diets for overfed lap dogs.
From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2021
“Now get on the wagon before that overfed, underworked horse of ours dies of old age.”
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
