overflow

Example Sentences

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Just like sinks and bathtubs have overflow drains to prevent spills, human cells appear to have a similar built-in safeguard.

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

Currently, the state spends money to send overflow prisoners to county jails, many of which are also packed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Municipal meetings overflow with complaints, and local officials do what they can to push back.

From Slate • Feb. 12, 2026

Throughout the dispute, the council has employed agency workers to collect household waste, but at times, piles of rubbish have grown on pavements and street corners while many bins overflow.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

This was filled with a blue flower, a rock plant of some sort, and the overflow hung down the vent and spilled lavishly among the canopy of the forest.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding