Example sentences for: surfeit

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

  • The Death of Outrage suffers from the same surfeit of self-righteousness that plagues all Bennett's ventures.

  • The piece features what is sure to be a major element of any Bradley run: a surfeit of tired sports metaphors.

  • 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."

  • A few blocks south, near the river, is an impressive agricultural market open every day and stocked with a surprising surfeit of meat and produce.

  • 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.


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