surfeit

May’s surfeit was wider than the C$2.68 billion expected by economists, and it follows April’s upwardly revised C$3.41 billion surplus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 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

But this spring holds a surfeit of Scripture-inspired scripted alternatives.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2026

“What happened to the peace dividend?” economist Augusto Lopez-Claros asked last year, referring to the supposed surfeit of funds that was to flow after the end of the Cold War.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

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

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

Regina, will you touch the bell for Hattie, that she may come and carry away all this breakfast, which I have not touched, and the bare sight of which surfeits me?

From Infelice by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

Their rest is not disturbed by the fear of thieves and robbers, nor is it interrupted by surfeits of intemperance.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 2 by Swift, Jonathan

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

From The Letter of the Contract by King, Basil

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

From Gaut Gurley by Thompson, D. P.

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

Recently, to whet a possibly surfeited U. S. appetite, Disney announced he would withdraw the English version from U. S. circulation.

From Time Magazine Archive

That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

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 Lloyd, Nelson

Our hearts may be “overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.”

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry

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

From Familiar Quotations by Bartlett, John