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overflow
noun as in flood, inundation
Strongest matches
verb as in pour out, flood
Example Sentences
He went on to have a career as an extreme-cleaning specialist and professional downsizer who now appears on two TV series about people dealing with an overflow of stuff.
You can get into overflow and fill them with water at -30 degrees, take them off, dump them out, put them back on, and your feet will warm back up.
We vetted and contracted backup factories who met our high criteria to help work through backlog in case of overflow.
Heavy rains cause overflows that send billions of gallons of effluent into local waterways.
Those in rural areas, in particular, have been grappling with overflow conditions because some of their larger partners in urban centers have stopped accepting transfers.
Today, sewage overflow is rarely an issue in developed cities.
Pope Francis urged the local parish to open up a closed monastery on the island to house the overflow.
“Barack Obama believes America is in need of great change,” Santorum said to the overflow crowd of 2,500.
The overflow crowds were thinning out—and he was becoming less of a novelty.
An hour to the north, at the rural Tilton School, Mitt Romney faced his own overflow crowd beneath quietly humming ceiling fans.
They would not then have been so annoyed by an overflow of traders nor been rendered the laughing-stock of the community.
The owners of a well may prevent its overflow and thereby cut off water that formerly ran into a stream.
How was he to know that these tears were the overflow of a heart that was on the point of bursting from sheer joy?
During the fortnight which followed the overflow, every day was employed by Madame Bastien, her son, and David in benevolent work.
It would often overflow the country entirely, were it not that the banks are guarded by dikes, like the dikes of the sea.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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