overflowing

Example Sentences

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As well as dealing with the overflowing in-tray of policy issues is the need to be patient facing.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Saudi Arabia’s flagship wealth fund is known for backing costly ideas overflowing with ambition, from building a futuristic city to creating a golf circuit to rival the PGA Tour.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

“My best work yet, I am absolutely overflowing with love and gratitude and disbelief,” Hewitt wrote in her post, revealing that her daughter arrived on Dec. 12.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026

Amy Winehouse performed to an overflowing Gobi Tent.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

Smart, independent Kutti, who’d scampered off to eat scraps out of every open, overflowing garbage can we’d seen.

From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman