Example sentences for: overflowing

How can you use “overflowing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • That night the engineer goes home only to find that his fax machine is already overflowing with résumés from all the other engineers who want in--not even caring what the company will do.

  • Again, there are exceptions, especially in small towns, but I think it's pretty rare to see community board meetings overflowing with local journalists out to better their neighborhoods.

  • Then a lurching demon made of excrement materializes out of an overflowing toilet bowl in Dogma . And now, just in time to prove that the end of the millennium will indeed bring about the destruction of all movie logic, we have End of Days , in which Satan pauses by a stoop, unzips his pants, and lets flow a meandering stream of flammable urine.

  • Ian Gibson's Dalí is an overflowing dumpster of a book, which puts forward an irritating psychological argument about its subject.

  • Near the end of the eight-day odyssey the toilets were overflowing, and on the seventh day the gunmen announced that in 30 minutes every passenger would be shot.


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