overfilled

Example Sentences

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On Aug. 15, a worker overfilled a leachate storage tank, causing 3,000 gallons of rancid liquid waste to spill.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2024

"The criminal statutes cited in this case are pretty broad and could apply to millions of people who don't file a return for one reason or another... prisons could, theoretically, be overfilled with tax criminals."

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2023

But after the visit, they would “go right back to overfilled pods and lack of staff and equipment to handle the situation.”

From Washington Times • May 5, 2023

Feelings — big, sloppy, mixed, unedited, self-incriminating feelings — slosh out of them like the contents of overfilled, foaming beer mugs on a wobbly tray.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2020

My eyes burned, and a trembling pain started in my gut and moved out, like water into an overfilled glass.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago