The word "overflows" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe an abundance of something. For example, "The sky overflows with stars on a clear night."
Tourism was the first sector to be hit when the scale of Athens' budgetary overflows became apparent in late 2009.
Almost for the fun of it, Mr Rosenbaum overflows into a chapter on Shakespeare in the original spelling, where peculiar forms ("shroudly" for "shrewdly", for example, in the opening scene of "Hamlet") can strike strange resonances.Mr Rosenbaum is always alive and engaging.
Their cargo is destined for Tecún Umán's bustling market, which overflows with crackers and bread made affordable by the recent depreciation of Mexico's peso against the Guatemalan quetzal.
This vivid novel uses the strange Argentine voices of outback people and, though it overflows with their experiences, it would surely challenge a translator.Difficulties of translation have been no barrier for this year's Nobel prize winner, Jose Saramago, a Portuguese writer born in 1922 and now living in the Canary islands.
Their work overflows with the murky and the profane.
Japan overflows with "parasite singles"—adults living with their parents who are flush with money that would otherwise go on rent.
Now, however, some districts of Indianapolis get 85 overflows annually, or 1.8m gallons of diluted crud a year.
It overflows with the poetry, revelling in its "lightness" and "alacrity"; that is how it should be, for Herbert's inner life is indescribable in any other form.
The buffer then overflows, causing other data to be overwritten, which subsequently causes the program to malfunction in short, it is a bug.
During heavy rains the river overflows, inundating their makeshift aluminium-and-brick homes with sewage.
IKE contends that CSO neighbourhoods with large numbers of blacks get more serious overflows than CSO districts that are mostly white.
