surfeit

There's not exactly a surfeit of available and convincing candidates and Clarke is a proven operator who has become a serial qualifier for major tournaments.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

As a businesswoman, a single mother and a highly sensitive human, Moore made it through life thanks to a surfeit of loving kindness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026

Colleges are graduating a surfeit of young people who lack hard or even soft skills.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025

Crude prices have fallen from $75 a barrel a year ago, and a projected surfeit next year could send them lower.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

A smooth barkless tree, blackened by a surfeit of green water.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

The company built pellet plants across the southern U.S., moving into parts of the pinery where pulp and paper mills had closed and left behind surfeits of sawdust, wood chips and cheap pulpwood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Increasingly in the '80s, Halloween has become an escapist extravaganza for adults, a trickless treat that more closely resembles Mardi Gras than the candy-and-apple surfeits of yesteryear.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other people's surfeits of champagne and ortolans had assured his own taste for plain roast beef.

From The Letter of the Contract by Basil King

At such a time, the little books of Marvell must have been considered as relishing morsels after such indigestible surfeits.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli

They say possession is so dangerous to lovers, that more of them die of surfeits than of fasting.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Sir Walter Scott

As a theater critic surfeited with plays, radio dramas worked best for me as an unplanned diversion in my car.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2025

Theatergoers, surfeited with entertainment options at home, have been less inclined to commit to season subscriptions, placing more pressure on programming to come up with sure-fire hits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2023

At this point, I'm so surfeited on natural spectacles, it's faintly disappointing not to see a troupe of all these things executing Busby Berkeley maneuvers for my personal delectation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2013

Whenever I am on the side of the Administration, I am surfeited with computer printouts that come within seconds to prove how right I am.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am sure it is surfeited with babies and is now coming after adults.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

What the Valentine's cards forget is that the lovesick duke who speaks the words wants to overeat so that "surfeiting/ The appetite may sicken, and so die."

From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2013

They were easier to swallow because they lacked liver's surfeiting taste, and a dessertspoonful in water or tomato juice once a day was sufficient for health.

From Time Magazine Archive

What man, did not Inconsiderateness deprive him of his senses, would chase baubles and pleasures—evanescent, surfeiting, foolish and disgraceful—and prefer them to peace of conscience, and glorious everlasting happiness? 

From The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell by George Henry Borrow

Doctor Todd tried to effect a compromise by accepting two hundred thousand dollars outright, but the philanthropist did not believe in making beggars of institutions by surfeiting them with charity.

From David Malcolm by Nelson Lloyd

O how you run out in favour of the wretch!—His birth, his education, his person, his understanding, his manners, his air, his fortune—reversions too taken in to augment the surfeiting catalogue!

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Samuel Richardson