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

On Aug. 15, a worker overfilled a leachate storage tank, causing 3,000 gallons of rancid liquid waste to spill.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2024

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

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

My eyes burned, and a trembling pain started in my gut and moved out, like water into an overfilled glass.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago