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Example sentences for "overflowing"

Lexicographically close words:
overfilled; overfishing; overflight; overflow; overflowed; overflowings; overflown; overflows; overfond; overfull
  1. A violent storm at Charleston, South Carolina, which continued forty-eight hours, overflowing the wharves and damaging the shipping.

  2. His heart too was overflowing with passionate delight.

  3. Her heart was overflowing with joy, yet her mind remained watchful and thoughtful during the long, toilsome nursing.

  4. I'd rather have a few drops of pure sweet than an overflowing cup tinctured with bitterness.

  5. They infringe neither the books nor the business of others; and [5] with hearts overflowing with love for God, they help on the brotherhood of men.

  6. There were days when New York roared too loudly for Isabelle's nerves, when the jammed streets, the buzzing shops, the overflowing hotels and theatres, made her long for quiet.

  7. Even John had taken it as a matter of course, all this elaborate celebration, the guests, the special train, the overflowing house.

  8. Ever since setting Silviane down at her door on the previous day, Rosemonde had been overflowing with admiration for her.

  9. Judith, dancing with Bob Cratchit, felt supremely happy, and her cup was filled to overflowing by Miss Meredith's words as she said good-night.

  10. The next week was packed full to overflowing with good times.

  11. The tones grew louder and louder, until they sounded like the prayer of a heart overflowing with feeling.

  12. She was overflowing with a natural and whole-hearted love for him.

  13. Beyond that the river flowed on in the same old fashion, but when it hit the cold country it simply turned to ice and went to piling up higher and higher, choking its channel and overflowing in all directions.

  14. Many of them had seen him chained like a felon, standing before unjust judges, whose hearts were filled to overflowing with hatred towards him.

  15. It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.

  16. But the next day our insane asylum at L---- was filled to overflowing with new cases of madness.

  17. But the cup is filled to overflowing now.

  18. From this highest Being proceeds by a physical necessity, as light from a luminous body or water from an overflowing spring, a second hypostasis or substance, the nous or Reason.

  19. The process in both systems is explained by use of analogies, those of the radiation of light from a luminous body, and of the overflowing of a fountain being the most common.

  20. Every dollar," replied the barber, continuing to wave and thrust the bills, but he raised an edge of his apron to his eyes, overflowing with the stupendousness of it.

  21. He had been left actually penniless with a wife and two babies to support, but as his pocket became empty his very soul had seemed to become full to overflowing with the rage and bitterness of his worldly experience.

  22. It is full to overflowing with terrors, with spiritual entities which are much more palpable, when one is in a certain mood, than actual physical presences.

  23. The numerous lakes in this province are generally shallow, and produced by the overflowing of the rivers: but they have the singular quality of being mostly saline, particularly those in the neighbourhood of the Rio Vermejo.

  24. The minister said he had been feeling so homesick he was afraid he wouldn't be able to preach a real thankful sermon, but now he was comfortably sure that his sermon would be overflowing with gratitude.

  25. At last I turned into a long aisle that seemed to lead right out into the very heart of a deep-red overflowing winter sunset.

  26. The huge child was overflowing with sentiment and emotion, and trying to make them speak to me.

  27. In his overflowing bliss, he could not realize that they were still walled in on every hand.

  28. But with hearts overflowing with gratitude to heaven, they found themselves on the earth again, with the sun shining and the pure air of heaven fanning their fevered faces.

  29. Again it rang out, charged to overflowing with innocent fun and frolic, irresistibly girlish, irresistibly coy.

  30. And there came a spell of rapture, fresh laughter and bravos, all the delight of an overflowing orgy.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overflowing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abundant; affluent; alive; alluvium; ample; aplenty; big; bloated; bottomless; bountiful; bristling; bursting; cataclysm; congested; copious; countless; crammed; crawling; crowded; deluge; diffuse; distended; drenched; effuse; effusive; epidemic; exaggeration; excess; extravagant; exuberant; fat; fecund; fertile; flood; flow; flush; formless; full; galore; generous; glutted; gorged; gushing; heavy; inexhaustible; inundation; jammed; lavish; liberal; luxuriant; many; maximal; much; multitudinous; numerous; opulent; overblown; overburdened; overfed; overflow; overflowing; overfull; overgrowth; overloaded; overpass; overrun; overrunning; overstuffed; packed; plentiful; plenty; populous; prevailing; prevalent; prodigal; productive; profuse; prolific; rampant; redundant; repetitive; replete; rich; rife; riotous; satiated; saturated; soaked; spill; studded; stuffed; submersion; superabundant; superfluity; superiority; supersaturated; surfeited; surplus; swarming; swollen; teeming; thick; washout; wealthy; wholesale