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Sentence Examples And though the wine list is overflowing, there is a nifty numbered guide to help you find the right wine to complement your menu choices. Wrought-iron balconies are festooned with hanging baskets overflowing with ferns. Soon the rivers begin to flow, the ponds and the lakes fill to overflowing, and verdure covers the earth. It's 10 in the morning and Joanna is overflowing with vibrant energy, enthusiasm and charm. If the school is thriving, overflowing with vibrant young energy then it's a sure sign the community is too. Their steep slopes are the nearest thing to a rainforest in Europe, overflowing with springs and pools which are home to salamanders and newts. It was therefore fitting that on the feast of the Assumption, the Church, dedicated to Our Lady, was packed to overflowing. The pain and agony she kept within her ruptured forth, much like an overflowing dam that finally burst under excruciating pressure. The seafood casserole, called zarzuela de mariscos, was steaming hot and overflowing. At the end of a decade of marriage her household was overflowing with people and objects, impelling her to begin a house hunt. Vicki stepped off the overflowing bus with a sigh, the forlorn glaze that had darkened Wil's eyes setting heavy on her heart. The streets are jammed with cars, the busses packed with people and the pavements overflowing with pedestrians weighed down with their purchases. The baby shower was Sunday afternoon, and the cheesecake and apple cider were overflowing. The purpose of this was to stop the leat overflowing in times of high water. The trash can was overflowing with styrofoam coffee cups and greasy fast food carry-out bags. I must point out that the place was spotless, I didn't see any overflowing dirt bins and papers or even stompies lying around. Schythes were swung, sheaves were tied and built into stooks in an overflowing gesture of co-operation and goodwill. The venue is a hotel resort set in a lush tropical garden overflowing with orchids and other native flowers. On a team overflowing with talent, Gordon, is this team's go-to guy, and nothing fazes him. In summer, it will be overflowing with pink rhubarb, broad beans, sweetcorn, cherry tomatoes, radishes, red Batavian lettuce and herbs. Show More Sentences It is an overwhelming, overflowing kaleidoscope of color, faces, tanned bodies, trophies, medals and ribbons. Here there are gift shops aplenty, but also fantastic courtyards and balconies overflowing with flowers. Suddenly realizing that the water was overflowing, she poured out a bit and wiped off the edges of the mug with a cloth. Common failings included forgotten scraps of food in refrigerators, fridges not being at the required temperature and waste bins overflowing. Thirteen Eastern Cape dams were overflowing after rains over large parts of the normally drought-prone province, SABC radio news reported. The present situation is that the dam is already overflowing and it is obvious that more rain is coming. Not only was my Green Box overflowing, but next to it were two black sacks full of paper. My shelves are full, my bookcase is full, my drawers are overflowing, I have a zillion boxes of stuff and yet more stuff all over the floor. The walls were lined with book cases, which were full to the brim, and overflowing onto the floor. In any case, the collectors didn't come on Friday, so the bin was still overflowing when we got home from work. My closet and drawers are literally overflowing with ancient artifacts with little or nothing known about their origins. Many readers have complained their bins are now overflowing and the council admits it has received hundreds of inquiries and complaints. The streets became busier and busier, almost overflowing with crowds of people. While walking on the prom on Saturday night, close to the entrance to the stone jetty, I came across a dog waste bin overflowing with rubbish. The collection of beer bottles, coffee cups and overflowing ashtrays was said to represent the chaos of an artist's studio. I can't help it, my gorge rises to overflowing every time I think about the unbelievably stupid mistakes our leaders made. Sadly, we have to report once again that the bottle bank is once again full to overflowing. The music business is full to overflowing with tales of artists who have had their fingers burned by the big industry players. Piled on the sofa cushions, overflowing tabletops and stuffed into closets are more than 700, mostly vintage, photographs. Already I'm told the Sept.10th list is now full to overflowing, and is the biggest, numerically, in several years. Show More Sentences The low waistline hugged her hips and the skirt was not heavy or overflowing. The album is overflowing with sweet harmonies and guitar riffs and beats that are edgy without being overbearing. Far from overflowing with a surplus of meaning, upon careful examination they display a deficit of meaning. They include an overflowing measure of paddy or rice, coconuts, fruits, a lamp, a mirror, and other objects. Lillesand is a beautiful little town full of wooden houses with white picket fences and gardens overflowing with roses. Keep Britain Tidy predicted problems would be caused by litter and discarded food from takeaways and overflowing household rubbish bags. The water level was extremely high, and the river was almost overflowing over the dam. Suddenly, all the pools in the zoo are full and overflowing and the animals who were quite sluggish in summer are now frisky. The protest forced the field to halt production in order to prevent its 2,000-barrel storage tanks from overflowing. The gardens are magnificent, overflowing with tropical blooms and huge flowering trees. An avuncular African doctor had the time to be reassuring and overflowing with human kindness. The psychological, spiritual and emotional support given to brothers fills their hearts to overflowing. The three ashtrays were overflowing with cigarette butts on the desk and on the deck. There was a bright closet with many different styles of red dresses overflowing from it and five white angora scarves. The mariachis were swinging, the margaritas were chilling, the River Walk was overflowing. The air possessed a pungent, acrid smell because the cigarette had burned through a filter stub in the overflowing ashtray. Elaine Wagner bumps the car door shut with her hip, her arms full with her purse and a shopping bag almost overflowing with used paperbacks. The place was overflowing the girls, squealing in delight, holding cameras and cheering. Families are likely to have smelling, overflowing bins halfway through the second week. More conventional routes are closed to through traffic by overflowing cardboard boxes. Show More Sentences Full rivers and overflowing dams have been reported in the northern region of the province as rains continue to fall. It was overflowing love and compassion that moved the Lord Jesus to go to the cross. I also managed to fill a skip to overflowing with the junk the previous owners had left behind. Now, who am I to remark on one person's habit when my own recycling bin is overflowing with Pepsi cans? The grape spirit market was in decline, too, so the EC wine lake was overflowing. There are old blue and white minibuses everywhere overflowing with passengers. But ripping yarns of undersea adventure failed to describe stinking bilges and hideous, overflowing buckets of garbage or worse. Some shopping carts were overflowing as some bargain hunters scooped up deals. London's sewage flows through here, regularly backing up and overflowing into creeks and canals choked with dead cars and shopping trolleys. Monkeys, who carry dangerous diseases, are attracted to the overflowing trash receptacles. As I handed my coin to the vendor, a vision of 240 of Rossi's enormous overflowing cornets flashed in front of my eyes. Mosques are full to overflowing and new mosques are being built to meet the demand. The feast is overflowing with pork, delivered whole on spits from underground umu ovens. The fiery broth is overflowing with tender calamari, a crab claw, shrimp, chunks of fish and one impeccable scallop. Her room is overflowing with tiaras, troll dolls, magical cards, toy castles, posters, crowns, swords, and all manner of fantasy knick-knacks. Almost a thousand mourners attended the funeral, with the local Maori meeting house overflowing for the hour-long service. A roll of carnival-style tickets will get you anything from classic Chicago-style deep-dish pizza to an overflowing plate of Cuban caldo gallego. It was a breezy southwesterly gale which caused overflowing dustbins to be sent flying through the masses. The resultant dengue outbreaks place severe strains on public hospitals, with wards filled to overflowing with patients. It can be compared to an overflowing rubbish-bin, which our brain, this amnesiac dustman, chronically forgets to empty. Show More Sentences Domestic waste flowing through exposed, overflowing, fly-infested gutters are a sight as common as our coconut trees. She pointedly turns away to avoid looking at a street person struggling with a laundry cart overflowing with stuff. The kitchen was the first room, and the garbage was overflowing, the counters were caked with gunk, and there were sticky spots on the floor. Sorry, but my mind has been overflowing with nice things and nasty things in equal measure. At the time of writing, the hospitals of Baghdad are overflowing with the wounded and dying, as the city is prised apart by American tanks. He said it was natural for the public to feel unsympathetic towards prisoners at a time when crime was rampant and prisons overflowing. The boysenberry canes are bursting with bright green leaves and overflowing the square of low trellises behind the old flagstone barbecue. Now he sits before a half-drunk coffee, a plate of untouched biscuits and an overflowing ashtray. And since it makes sensible use of halls rather than fields, the event is untroubled by rain, mud and overflowing toilets. Gilly glowered soggily at him from behind the overflowing basin, wielding a large sponge and a rather nasty-looking scrub brush. They were near an overflowing dumpster, and a fire escape heading up into one of the buildings. To the dreamy melody of a Beethoven piano sonata, a child-like model rummaged through a trunk overflowing with clothes on a set designed as a girl's bedroom. The plane was overflowing with a cornucopia of luxury food and amenities, as if destined for Paris. From assault rifles to antiaircraft missiles, Libya is overflowing with armaments. It would appear that when it came to the bottom line, Washington was not overflowing with sympathy. Even an experienced programmer might have a hard time tracking down bugs caused by invalid accesses, overflowing writes, accesses to dead memory, memory leaks and the like. If mountain areas were full of deep-rooted Japanese cedar rather than betel nut palms, torrential rains would be less likely to cause mudslides and overflowing rivers. I knew my story would be clouded in secrecy, overflowing with spies and agents wanting the man at the end of that deal. Soon his coffers were overflowing with revenue from rubber, palm oil, and ivory. In a few minutes hot water tank is empty and refilling from the main tank which is not now refilling and therefore in no danger of overflowing again. Show More Sentences However, the bus station got its worse grade to date due to the overflowing bins, plastic bottles, plastic bags and plastic wrappings present there. A flood alert was sounded in Kinnaur, Shimla, Kulu and Mandi districts last evening after water started overflowing from the lake, bringing along a lot of silt. At the time, FX was yet another cable network overflowing with off-network repeats and sanitized movies. Another result was a line of TV news trucks and a scrum of photographers outside the funeral as the church filled to overflowing. To me, this seemed to be a country that was overflowing with interesting, smart, enormously talented people. They are a result of overflowing rivers, accumulated run-off from higher land, and the practice of making low earth barriers to limit soil erosion and store water. They were piled in heaps inside homes, stored in overflowing baskets, and stacked in pyramids as high as children. Every day my mailbag is stuffed to overflowing with letters from desperate people who can't even get their dealers to be civil, leave alone helpful. A small port had been built and colossal barges looking like giant overflowing matchboxes were being towed the short distance down the coast to Korea. Every hill in sight, every plain, was seeded and overflowing with lush green crops and the workers busied themselves with their daily chores and share of the work. Minutes before the end sections of the crowd streamed over the fence around the ground and formed groups around the touchlines, often overflowing onto the field. Even though there is a threadbare concession stand, overflowing picnic baskets abound. The drama in Luddenden, Calderdale, followed a night of torrential rain which had left a mill dam dangerously overflowing when debris partially blocked a culvert. A hundred yards or so from the door of my room, just beyond a side gate of the university, was a market overflowing with fresh and seasonal produce. Spence's mansion was found to be overflowing with surveillance equipment, including hidden cameras and microphones and an abundance of two-way mirrors. He added that water from the sink, washing machine and wash basins is prone to overflowing and running back underneath the house instead of down the outside drain. The mound of dirty clothing just keeps piling up until your hamper is overflowing and a sea of denim, cotton and corduroy forms a carpet on the floor of your bedroom. The year is 1998, and the group performs before an overflowing hometown hall of writhing, bouncing, pushing and skanking mop-haired kids and mod hipsters. The one unfrozen pond at the preserve was overflowing with waterfowl. Although welcome, the heavy rains in eastern Nebraska fell on ground so dry and hard that a substantial portion of the moisture ran off, overflowing some creeks and sloughs. Show More Sentences However, I believe that our society is overflowing with lethal weapons and that we must take action to prevent more dead kids. Breakfast was, like all the meals, a leisurely affair taken from an overflowing buffet of fresh fruits or bountiful sausages, eggs and yes, home-cured bacon! It was overflowing with hanging spider plants and overripe ferns. Flooding was extensive, especially in the Stockbridge area, with the River Worth bursting its banks and overflowing near its confluence with the Aire. Secondly, it was full to overflowing of hackneyed sexist stereotypes. A feeble card table covered in a plastic table cloth struggled to support a cheesy punch bowl surrounded by untouched cups and overflowing snack baskets. The film is filled to overflowing with strange and wondrous images, but they all feel organic to that world, never thrown on screen simply for their own sake. Flood waters in the eastern regions of Trinidad have subsided, and clean-up crews have now begun clearing up overflowing cesspits and clogged waterways. Finally, the reservoir is filled with water, the electric pump turned on and, hey presto, you have an overflowing spring bubbling cheerfully away. But I'd have to say the blogosphere and Internet has given City Journal, a pretty highbrow magazine overflowing with thoughtful, long essays, a lot more readers. He said the bin was overflowing in January but disappeared mysteriously. He wore fairly shabby clothes, perhaps better suited for a wanderer, and had green hair overflowing his head, with black streaks running here and there. But by the end of the 19th century the offices were full to overflowing. With its best hotels and restaurants full to overflowing, the city is already feeling like a winner no matter which city eventually wins the right to host the 2012 Olympics. The recycling bin is full to overflowing, even in the holidays. Extrovert and virtuosic, he is always in control of this difficult music and his pianism is overflowing with that Russian passion which stirs both mind and spirit. The floodwaters were overflowing the National Highway 31 at many places. His charming wife Rita, who keeps the Po Valley floodwaters of her husband's conversation from overflowing, plumped for the foie gras and balsamic vinegar salad. With an overflowing ice cream cone and floppy hat, she could be any three-year-old on holiday, playing with her sister on the shores of a Cornwall beach. Photography even substantiated claims of overflowing creels. Show More Sentences For the past 34 years, Toronto has played host to Caribana, a dazzling carnival overflowing with pulsating steelband, calypso, and breathtaking costume displays. The town's cemetery is packed to overflowing, and unless families can pay the requisite sum for eternal entombment, bodies are evicted after five years. In a city where almost roadside bin is overflowing with uncleared garbage, it's extremely doubtful whether the authorities will be successful in implementation. In front of it was a gold thali filled to overflowing with all manner of food, most of it sweets and pastries made from milk and curds. Britain has become a multicultural, overflowing, overpopulated sewer without any sense of its own identity or culture. The dam remains full, overflowing through a culvert which passes beneath the railway. The cutlery increasing on the drainer, chock a block, While the sink is overflowing as the dishes run amok! And I do not recall them dualling the A1 when government coffers were overflowing with funny money. If the taskbar at the bottom of your desktop is overflowing with icons you never even look at, you can easily tame that beast. The talented youngster was still overflowing with enthusiasm and hope after the talent show came to an end. Over a hundred basins, now dry or nearly so, were overflowing in the North American west. I recently walked the length of Albany Road, from Wellfield Road and found every council litter bin overflowing. Echaid decides to build a house there and covers the spring with a capstone to stop it overflowing. Yellowing walls, a steel almirah, a table overflowing with books, an old photograph of Zohraji on the mantelpiece and a threadbare durrie. Besides the overflowing armour, you will find that the taxidermist was on overdrive on everything from tigers to dik-diks. Ghaghra river is overflowing in the terai districts of Lakhimpur Kheri, Barabanki and Bahraich, leaving over five dozen villages marooned. It is more likely that the basement water is caused by overflowing gutters resulting from clogs or sagging or by downspouts that dump water near the foundation. Gaiety and an overflowing, outpouring love, warmth and clarity, a lighthanded ease, replaced the tormented tension of the will which had marked the outgrown stage. Up a street called The Grove, just before the tax office, there's this alley, half hidden by a skip overflowing with bin-bags smelling of bubbling nappies. In one photograph, the mum-of-three bends down over the jewel chest that is overflowing with glittering goodies, including diamante shoes and bowties. Show More Sentences Lindley resident Ken Winter said he rang the council after discovering the textile recycling bin at Lidget Street near his home was full to overflowing. The work to rule action resulted in household bin collections being up to a week behind and Friday's strike left bins in the city centre overflowing with rubbish. And then he threw open the bedroom door and she commenced to laugh, but even then, it was a weepy, gasping, tearsome kind of laughter that was purely an overflowing of joy. The book is overflowing with fresh insights, recastings of old debates, new ways to extrapolate evidence, realignments of theoretical traditions, improved translations, etc. Despite virtual assistants and automatic messages, when returning from a holiday, your overflowing inbox might be enough to make you hyperventilate. In a novel overflowing with enthrallingly compelling prose and plot, Abulhawa fearlessly marches fiction to the frontier with reality, then steps decisively across it. You don't want a jungle down there, overflowing the posing pouch. The landscape has been formed for a great part by storm tides in the 10th to 14th centuries, overflowing and carrying away former peat land behind the coastal dunes. Examples from Classical Literature Her young heart seemed overflowing with joyfulness at her unexpected success. Hermon, on the contrary, was overflowing with manly vigour, and the strongest among the ephebi in the wrestling school. Dr. Lipscomb married us in the colored Methodist Church, and that night the church was crowded to overflowing. Nothing had constrained him, save his overflowing heart, his constant, fadeless love. It was recess and the campus was overflowing with boys and girls, but Pat was alone. Now they were children with all the overflowing endearments of plighted lovers. It was said that the French Treasury, which was not overflowing, was still more reduced by the Queen's partiality for her brother. A young couple, an old couple, and half a dozen market baskets overflowing with greenstuff, shared the interior with us. Soon some thirty of them had met with this fate, and the gulley was full to overflowing. The man with overflowing strength, both of mind and body, who must discharge this strength or perish, is the nietzschean ideal. When the motor is running properly, the amount of water fed to the vaporizer and overflowing to the ash-pit is properly adjusted. Mr. Dean raised the weepers head from his shoulders and gazed deep into the overflowing brown eyes. He had a six-pack of chocolate pudding beside him, and a wastebasket overflowing with food wrappers and boxes. He was waving his arms, beside himself, overflowing with the emotion of an artist. The audience numbered nearly two thousand, pit, gallery and cockloft being filled to overflowing. It was like a brook overflowing after a rainstorm when the soil is parched. Here in the riant and overflowing opulence of July, time without love's companionship was time wasted. Delancey is overflowing with joie de vivre, with curiosity, with a certainty of imminent adventure. The mover and seconder of the first Resolution, poured out language in flowing and overflowing streams, like water from a perpetual spring. They were brimful and overflowing with spontaneous hospitality. Show More Sentences His tone was filled full to overflowing with compunction as he answered. But the white-collar ranks were teeming, overflowing, supersaturated. The book of Ecclesiasticus is an overflowing treasury of wisdom. As they went cutting sidewise through the water, the sails bellied taut, with the wind filling and overflowing them. Meanwhile, this blasted oil stove was overflowing into the fire pot. The water-plug being left in solitude, its overflowing sullenly congealed, and turned to misanthropic ice. Blake scanned the sparkly dresses hanging from the rack and the card tables overflowing with flowers. We regularly use phrases such as cluttered, overflowing and can't swing a cat to describe the state of our homes today. Her room was littered, the drawers were filled to overflowing. The cellars and granaries of Mecklenburg were full to overflowing. And close behind, and overtaking it, and overflowing it, the dawn came, pale at first, and then growing pink and warm. But garbage cans were overflowing, fencing was covered in bird dropping, graffiti and cobwebs, the water was full of garbage. The penitential den once set apart for interviews with the House, was now the news-Exchange, and was filled to overflowing. The narrow and badly arranged galleries were packed to overflowing. Her heart was overflowing with gratitude, pride, devotion, resoluteness. From these basins the water is continually exhaled by the sun in the daytime, which effectually prevents their overflowing. The Great Mother, he thought bitterly, benevolent and overflowing! Austrey entered, piloting a tremendous blackwigged and red-plumed lady in overflowing furs. They were all by that time choking the Hall of Examination where this old man, ugly and wicked, was, and overflowing into the adjacent open space and streets. This is furnished by numerous salt springs of limpid water, which are continually welling up, overflowing their borders, and forming beautiful crystallizations. Show More Sentences When overflowing with mutual esteem, the whales salute more hominum. Find more words! 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