Sentence examples for can overflow from inspiring English sources

Rivers can overflow, as in Somerset.

When glaciers melt, they create lakes that can overflow and flood a town below.

When it rains heavily, pipes in a combined system can overflow and spill raw sewage.

Waste can overflow public bins for weeks, with residents having no idea when it will be collected.

They also use far less water, while diverting storm water from the sewer system, which can overflow during heavy rain.

Rooftop farms have the potential to capture millions of gallons of storm water and divert it from the sewer system, which can overflow when it rains.

I drew a trash can overflowing with garbage.

Residents pay premium taxes, even as garbage cans overflow and potholes go unrepaired.

But along the streets of his district, one of 15 comprising about 40,000 people each, business owners and residents seem far less certain of that, saying they have no representative to go to when garbage cans overflow, potholes crop up, vagrants loiter.

Don't let your trash cans overflow with garbage.

Garbage cans overflowed with the remains of summer picnics.