Example sentences for: surfeit

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

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

  • The surfeit of mildly interesting plots surrounding each duo results in a film that is "the cinematic answer to one of those parties where you pig out on canapés" (Anthony Lane, The New Yorker ). The highlight of the film: a wonderful performance by Angelina Jolie (Jon Voight's daughter) as a tough club kid who falls in love with a blue-haired Ryan Phillippe.

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • 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.


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