overflow

Example Sentences

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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

His next hurdle would be familiar to book lovers everywhere - finding space to house his overflowing collection.

From BBC

The following year, another email from "Sarah" to Epstein is overflowing in affection.

From BBC

The few bins that do exist fill up quickly and overflow.

From The Wall Street Journal

Residents are being evacuated in trucks and horse-drawn carriages as overflow from the Loukkos River floods a neighbourhood in northern Morocco.

From Barron's