surfeit

Example Sentences

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So by the time a public space opened up in 1977, the staff had a surfeit of wooden soapboxes containing jumbles of animal bones but little else.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

Any study of wars, poverty and other manmade crises shows us that humanity still suffers from a lack of empathy, not a surfeit.

From Salon

The surfeit of description can scarcely conceal the deficit of insight.

From The Wall Street Journal

Once markets adjusted to the shock, U.S. gas inventories flipped into a surfeit that depressed prices.

From The Wall Street Journal