Sentence examples for is surfeit from inspiring English sources

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is surfeit

noun

An excessive amount of something.

  • A surfeit of wheat is driving down the price.

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What that translates to, musically, is surfeit — a rapidly changing series of chords, noises, and words that pile up in something more like ecstasy than pain.

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The guest performers at the festival were almost entirely male, reflecting the prevailing belief that while the Maryinsky is surfeited with talented young ballerinas, its men are less commanding.

I would escape into books, I lived in them, reading unsystematically, often to the point of sickness, of being surfeited.

But there is a surfeit of villains.

Indeed, many think there is a surfeit of young talent.

There is a surfeit of liquidity on Wall Street.

But there is a surfeit that simply cannot compete.

Sometimes the problem is a surfeit of apostrophes, rather than their absence.

This leads to some repetition — there is a surfeit of selfish fathers and abandoned mothers.

There is a surfeit of humanities graduates and a shortage of agronomists and engineers.

One great virtue of "The Orphanage" is its surfeit of women.

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