overflowing

Example Sentences

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"By reusing plastic waste that is already in Hawaii, we can reduce the environmental and economic impacts of transporting waste plastics from the islands, incinerating it or dumping it in Hawaii's overflowing landfills."

From Science Daily • Jun. 28, 2026

As Al Michel and Mike Sugerman tell it, the first rendition of their L.A. softball team was overflowing with “geeks,” “nerds” and “goofs.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2026

CoreWeave has emerged as one of the leading neoclouds, a class of companies standing up infrastructure to meet overflowing demand for AI compute.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

There are five large bins at Fort Perch Rock car park but they did not have the capacity to deal with the litter and street bins filled up quickly and were left overflowing.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

The cards and letters are collected, placed in bags, and brought by messenger to the Bowens’ private residence, a town house that is already overflowing with appropriately somber floral arrangements.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern