surfeit

In 1853, the surfeit of gold everywhere pushed San Francisco’s real-estate prices up 25%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

The Victorians worried about a “world denuded of larger significance,” but we suffer from both material surfeit and spiritual abundance, and are captive to a surplus of competing and increasingly angry gods.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Just looking at them reminds me of Christmas and the sticky feeling after eating too many, the surfeit and glut.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

More fevers and surfeits are got by people's drinking when they are hot, than by any one thing I know.

From The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

No, the men of ease and idleness may have surfeits, the men of toil can only have banquets.

From Gaut Gurley by D. P. Thompson

It never teases you—there he has the better of Shelley—or surfeits you—there he prevails over Keats.

From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Augustine Birrell

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

New Yorkers may be too surfeited with magnificent spectacles, after the tall ships and the Bicentennial festivals, to work up much enthusiasm for the convention.

From Time Magazine Archive

The anger will not hold; the puppy is too easily surfeited.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

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

The cod increases its species most prodigiously, surfeiting itself upon hake, until the world is again menaced.

From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Charlotte Brewster Jordan

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.——

From Twelfth Night or, What You Will by J P Kemble

It is of surfeiting that the Son of God warns us to beware.

From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr