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

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 ● Dec. 1, 2025

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

“I didn’t mean that,” said Harry, whose brain felt sluggish with exhaustion and from the surfeit of food and wine.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

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

"Henry the Eighth, a prince of famous memory, was wonte to drinke the distilled water of broome flowers against surfeits and diseases therefrom arising."

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie

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

I see that plenty surfeits oft, And hasty climbers soonest fall; I see that such as are aloft, Mishap doth threaten most of all.

From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen

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

California's booming aerospace and microelectronics industries are surfeited with back orders that are expected to keep production lines humming for months.

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

Soon the smoke ascended among the trees, impregnated with savory incense, not heavy, dull, and surfeiting, like 51 the steam of cookery indoors, but sprightly and piquant.

From English: Composition and Literature by W. F. (William Franklin) Webster

The air was surfeiting with the steam of food.

From Montlivet by Alice Prescott Smith

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 A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett