Sentence examples for would be overflowing from inspiring English sources

IF the town of Kent were a river it would be overflowing its banks.

Mr. Winterrowd points out that backyards everywhere would be overflowing with pachysandra, the gardener's equivalent of meatloaf, were it not for passionate gardeners constantly seeking out unusual plants.

The city seemed to be exhaling, finally calming down over mugs of mulled wine and pints of lager in cozy pubs that would be overflowing in busier months.

If people were to adopt a similar tactic when complaining about the Sun's catalogue of factual errors on any given week its office would be overflowing with toilet rolls.

IN A year when rich-country leaders have said so much about the need to help Africa, and to step up the fight against such scourges as AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, you might think an international body set up to do just that would be overflowing with donations.

Multiple television sets, perhaps intended for resale in Iraq, will risk getting the boat sent back to port for breaking sanctions, a potential public-relations disaster.Iraqis complain that, were it not for sanctions, foreign ships would be overflowing from cramped Umm Qasr to the port of Basra, 80 kilometres up the Shatt al-Arab waterway from the Gulf.

Last summer, when President Clinton picked Edward G. Rendell to be the general chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the expectation was that the party's war chest would soon be overflowing.

[5] Fruits and vegetables should and could be overflowing in classrooms, but that would benefit only kids.

His mailbox must be overflowing.

It might even be overflowing.

On the morning after Memorial Day in 1979, the sidewalks in the Manhattan neighborhood where Etan Patz lived would have been overflowing with trash accumulated over the long weekend, clumps of refuse from the homes and studios of artists and the few stores and restaurants that catered to them.