Example sentences for: surfeit

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

  • from generation to generation" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). A few, like Pearl K. Bell in the Wall Street Journal , find "a surfeit of sweetly obedient docility" in the novel and say parts are "perilously at the edge of sentimentality."

  • He also has wonderful breath, but not from a surfeit of mints or mouthwash."

  • If anything, the director seems to have suffered from a surfeit of dignity, proving too proud to overcome the loss of a powerful patron and a couple of ambitious flops.

  • Mutations found in at least two nuclear genes also correlate with Leigh syndrome: one for a subunit of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex and one for surfeit locus protein 1 (SURF-1), which is involved in the assembly of cytochrome c oxidase.

  • A rich supply--no, a surfeit --of useful information!


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