Sentence examples for overflowed- from inspiring English sources

The shelf of cookbooks long ago overflowed, so that the sad relations and failed hopes ("Monet's Table," "A Drizzle of Honey: The Lives and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews") now are stacked horizontally, high up.

Amini's e‑mail in-box regularly overflowed with terrible stories from remote Iranian towns, from relatives and lawyers of the condemned who had heard of her work.

With all free tickets to the event snapped up, Modi fans, many clad in commemorative T-shirts bearing the prime minister's visage, overflowed into viewing areas outside the stadium, among them credit analyst Amrita Burman.

Its narrow aisles overflowed with cheap goods stacked on shelves and stuffed onto over-loaded racks: gallon-sized bottles of detergent on sale for $4, frosted-glass chess sets for $5, a large package of cotton socks for $5, and a four-foot inflatable ghost for $10.The Midwest, a friend from Michigan once told me, could not survive without Wal-Mart and other such bargain retailers.

RECENTLY, Latin America has hardly overflowed with enthusiasm for free-trade agreements with the United States.

But in a single speech his ambitions overflowed to consumer protection and the reform of ratings agencies, too.

Last year 55m tonnes of untreated sewage overflowed into the River Thames.

These then overflowed into streets and rainwater drains that emptied into the river.The summer of 1858 was relentlessly hot and dry.

Grief and gratitude overflowed their artificial banks of decorum; spontaneously, we began to applaud; even those who might have thought applause has no place at a funeral, even they clapped.

Police officers' assorted waste had overflowed, apparently some time ago.

At the end, his audience rose to applaud as for a piano virtuoso.As an interpreter of the Middle East, Mr Halliday's talents overflowed.