overfilled

Example Sentences

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"It's vital people don't leave any rubbish behind, that businesses' bins are not overfilled."

From BBC • May 21, 2025

But after the visit, they would “go right back to overfilled pods and lack of staff and equipment to handle the situation.”

From Washington Times • May 5, 2023

“Our emergency departments are overfilled and we have patients in every bed. Now an ominous question looms: Will you be able to get care from your local community hospital without delay? Today, that is uncertain.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2021

Feelings — big, sloppy, mixed, unedited, self-incriminating feelings — slosh out of them like the contents of overfilled, foaming beer mugs on a wobbly tray.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2020

I sealed the Ziploc bag around the last quarter of my sandwich, got up, and tossed it into an overfilled trash can.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green