overflow
Example Sentences
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Currently, the state spends money to send overflow prisoners to county jails, many of which are also packed.
The ground is still wet from the storm last weekend, Parker said, making it hard for the new rain to be absorbed into the ground and causing streams to overflow.
A row of lidless, doorless toilets stretched along one wall in the pool of their overflow.
From Literature
Finding those less-heralded performers will be the challenge this season because the market is not overflowing with eye-catching players.
From Los Angeles Times
On Saturday, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. signaled it too was slowing production so tanks didn’t overflow.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
