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"Overflow" in a Sentence (23 examples)
This river is going to overflow.
The book's blurbs overflow with superlatives.
Out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
One drop makes the glass overflow.
The severe rain caused rivers to overflow.
The severe rain caused rivers to overflow, in some cases covering whole towns.
Too much rain, especially in the city, can lead to flooding, causing sewers to overflow and carry pollutants and contaminants to nearby streams and waterways.
Gradlon was a prudent prince, and defended his capital of Ys from the invasions of the sea by constructing an immense basin to receive the overflow of the water at high tide.
This river looks like it's going to overflow.
The resin started to overflow.
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High crests of these overflows were: Manhattan, 23.0 feet, 8.0 above bankful, on June 16–17; Wamego, 20.8 feet, 4.8 feet above bankful, on June 17; Topeka, 26.8 feet, 5.8 feet above bankful, on June 17; […]
GCN: Do you have an overflow of scripts? JG: I have more than we could ever do, certainly. But there's never an overflow of quality, and quality is really hard to come by, real quality.
The river overflowed the levee into the road.
Theſe are they that went ouer Ioꝛden in the firſt moneth, when it had ouerflowen all his* bankes, and they put to flight all them of the valleis, both toward the Eaſt, and toward the Weſt.
Locally heavy rains on the 21st caused more than 2 feet of overflow on Salt Creek at Ashland, Nebr., on the 22d. Some county roads were inundated. Mill Creek which flows into the Platte River at Louisville, Nebr., overflowed its banks from the heavy rain.
The shadows had begun to overflow Their stagnant puddles on the nightward side, When presently the roar of battle died
The flash flood overflowed most of the parkland and some homes.
So when they were working that evening at the pumps, there was on this head no small gamesomeness slily going on among them, as they stood with their feet continually overflowed by the rippling clear water […]
The waters overflowed into the Ninth Ward.
The hospital ER was overflowing with flu cases.
I see and feel that I want the first requisite — a heart overflowing with Divine love towards sinners
Calculating 255+1 will overflow an eight-bit byte.
Some programs, especially online games, tend to have coding problems that leave them with memory holes - in other words, they don't delete information from your PC's memory once they're finished with it, they just keep adding and adding until everything overflows. Eventually, this can cause the game to crash to desktop, but adding more memory can help prevent this.
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