How To Use Overflow In A Sentence

Sewage overflowed into wash basins at West Middlesex Hospital following a blockage in one of the toilets.
Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness. Erich Fromm
They left behind a huge pile of ripped bin bags overflowing with pizza boxes and cans. The Sun
Sewers overflowed and mixed with rainwater and entered houses through drain pipes.
They were so beautifully typeset, and their tone was just captivating — alternately casual and buffer-overflowingly technical. Copy What You Like

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When we checked with the building department, the local inspector told us that the water heater is correctly installed and that the overflow pipe complies with the intent of the building code.
Now he sits before a half-drunk coffee, a plate of untouched biscuits and an overflowing ashtray.
The trouble started last Wednesday when we got home to find the overflow pipe gushing water from the side of the house.
For example, if my washing machine oversuds and overflows, I think it's amusing; the person who has to clean the mess does not. All articles at Blogcritics
Interconnected streets allow rush-hour overflow to trickle through neighborhoods, moving more traffic with less pavement.
When the cup of human life is so overflowing with woe and pain and misery, it seems to me a narrow dilettanteism or downright charlatanism to devote one's self to petty or bizarre problems which can have no relation to human happiness, and to prate of self-satisfaction and self-expression. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
The flood overflowed the valley.
Full rivers and overflowing dams have been reported in the northern region of the province as rains continue to fall.
The mound of dirty clothing just keeps piling up until your hamper is overflowing and a sea of denim, cotton and corduroy forms a carpet on the floor of your bedroom.
Visitors crane their necks to photograph a pergola overflowing with hanging baskets of impatiens, ‘Martha Washington’ geraniums and agapanthus.
Here we show, through the analysis of long hydrographic records, that the system of overflow and entrainment that ventilates the deep Atlantic has steadily changed over the past four decades. About: Blinded by Science
That's the only area where we have any significant overflow.
The architect did specify weir overflows.
As I entered the house, the sweet scent of a new house unfolded and the fresh air from outside overflowed the entire house.
Scrapbooks crammed with yellowed reviews overflow on to sheets the color of daffodils, a salmon satin blanket cover.
The silence of the night pictures itself before him in the form of an endless expanse of perfectly calm, dark water, which has overflowed everything and congealed; there is not a ripple on it, not a shadow of a motion, and neither is there anything within it, although it is bottomlessly deep. The Man Who Was Afraid
Infinity pools (where the edges overflow with water) blur the boundary between swimming pool and decorative water feature.
Four more people drowned in eastern India on Wednesday and an overflowing river threatened to inundate low-lying areas around Patna, the populous capital city of Bihar state, relief officials said yesterday.
A good personality is better than an outstanding inteligence. A good temper is overflown with splendor just as a sunny day.
Their great old houses overflow with rough medieval furniture, threadbare tapestries and religious relics worn smooth by the touch of generations.
They are now able to refuse to disclose spill data on many of their sewer overflow pipes. Times, Sunday Times
This shortcoming creates a means for hackers to spam users with a maliciously constructed email designed to trigger this buffer overflow condition.
The floods came quickly, paddy fields filled up and overflowed as their trickling water channels became frothing torrents, the little streams and becks that characterised Kendip transformed into surging mud flows.
WASA has begun a $2.6 billion project, the largest the authority has built, to reduce nitrogen and trash flowing to the rive r from its combined sewer overflow system, said George S. Hawkins, WASA general manager. Trash-free Anacostia?
Schythes were swung, sheaves were tied and built into stooks in an overflowing gesture of co-operation and goodwill.
Part of South Milford was flooded yesterday after swollen dykes overflowed into High Street, leaving the village playing field, post office and several houses under water.
More conventional routes are closed to through traffic by overflowing cardboard boxes.
As most of our registry consisted of housewares and kitchen appliances, the kitchen was in a constant state of overflow as we struggled to find places for all our new treasures.
Another table design consisted of two-tiered crystal candelabras overflowing with white trumpet calla lilies and crystal embellishments. My Fair Wedding
The sink had overflowed and the kitchen floor was awash.
Fisherman Ray Turner hand-built the V-shaped stone overflow dam, or weir, in the East Branch of the Delaware River in New York; its walls funnel eels into a wooden collecting rack.
Every day my mailbag is stuffed to overflowing with letters from desperate people who can't even get their dealers to be civil, leave alone helpful.
If the school is thriving, overflowing with vibrant young energy then it's a sure sign the community is too.
I am guessing that tourism overflowing from the Cancun area has helped but it is also the main commercial hub in the Yucatan peninsula and the capitol of the state of Yucatan. Noise in Merida & Progreso
I regarded _tragic_ knowledge as the most beautiful luxury of our culture, as its most precious, most noble, most dangerous kind of prodigality; but, nevertheless, in view of its overflowing wealth, as a justifiable _luxury_. The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.
And unlike the preceding White Album, the jumbled juxtaposition of forms - faux-blues toss-offs, stately piano ballads, folkie hootenannies - feels less like a band overflowing with inspired ideas than one running out of them.
The utility model relates to an overflow-type filter cake washing device for a vacuum pan filter.
The hospital corridors overflow with sick and injured people. Times, Sunday Times
Sure enough down my pub that night we had an overflow of people who had waited up to an hour in some cases to get served.
The right aisle was made into a classroom to accommodate the overflow from the schoolhouse across the road.
There is a moment in every battle at which the least maneuver is decisive and gives superiority as one drop of water causes overflow.
This whole process of metabolism is analogous to filling a tank with fluid until it overflows.
The hospitals are overflowing with victims of the hurricane.
The estimate of three revolutions for three overflow records will thus be fairly accurate in this case.
There is a moment in every battle at which the least maneuver is decisive and gives superiority as one drop of water causes overflow.
It overflows with the dark campery that has become the playhouse's appreciated hallmark.
Provision has also been made for changing rooms and for a plant room for the swimming pool, a wrap-around deck, new entrance gates, a biocycle waste unit and a sump to accommodate the swimming pool overflow.
Lodged in the funnel is an ice cube. when it melts and flows into the cup the cup overflows. Think Progress » Corporations Speak Out Against SCOTUS Ruling, Call On Congress To Approve Public Financing Of Campaigns
Suddenly, all the pools in the zoo are full and overflowing and the animals who were quite sluggish in summer are now frisky.
There is a moment in every battle at which the least maneuver is decisive and gives superiority as one drop of water causes overflow.
Vicki stepped off the overflowing bus with a sigh, the forlorn glaze that had darkened Wil's eyes setting heavy on her heart.
The mariachis were swinging, the margaritas were chilling, the River Walk was overflowing.
They threw the rind of their melons in the direction of an overflowing waste bin. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
The hospitals will be full to overflowing with people who are dead. Times, Sunday Times
A waste sump overflowed in September causing hundreds of gallons of contaminated water to pour into the Gullielands Burn which flows through the Chapelcross site.
The resultant dengue outbreaks place severe strains on public hospitals, with wards filled to overflowing with patients.
Now, those pumps could themselves be underwater if the river overflowed its banks.
Both came with a side salad; it was fresh and crisp - vegetables and an overflowing plate of chips which were, if I had to complain, just a touch underdone.
The Hurt Locker, the senses are stretched to a point of acute tension and wary, analytical alertness; but one facet of Bigelow's greatness is the way that this sort of subjective state, as well, can be seen, heard, and felt to overflow as a kind of nonsubjective sensorial immersion. Warren Ellis
The town's cemetery is packed to overflowing, and unless families can pay the requisite sum for eternal entombment, bodies are evicted after five years.
They are now able to refuse to disclose spill data on many of their sewer overflow pipes. Times, Sunday Times
In the City of Elua, the revelry would begin in earnest that day, and by evenfall, the salons of reception would be overflowing in the Court of Night-Blooming Flowers, as Kushiel's Avatar
The media tribune was overflowing with hundreds of reporters, all drawn to an event that has been hyped incessantly since Phelps entered and qualified for the 200 free at the U.S. Olympic trials last month.
One of the main causes, in first-class bureaucratese, is known as a combined sewer overflow.
The population overflowed into the adjoining territory.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Roger, we got distracted and we have overflown Minneapolis. CNN Transcript Nov 27, 2009
For men say that the young of all creatures cannot be quiet in their bodies or in their voices; they are always wanting to move and cry out; some leaping and skipping, and overflowing with sportiveness and delight at something, others uttering all sorts of cries. Laws
The ridge of the roof is a water channel from which water overflows onto the thin roofing membrane of stone and glass.
We made do with the pips on digital Radio 2, and the engaged burr of mobiles as the servers overflowed.
Swollen rivers overflowed and flooded roads, homes, yards and underpasses.
It is not possible to ensure complete safety from flooding or overflow.
The water overflowed in the hand, going straight out to either side as the streams of water continuously added their masses together.
So after doing a CPS transform and then trampolining it by returning a lambda wrapped "thunk", my interpreter *should have* handled an infinite tail recursive call *without* a stack overflow exception. Archive 2008-07-01
The cat licked up all the milk which had overflowed onto the floor.
I was brimming, no, overflowing with good feelings.
Asuncion rescued the two goats after she made sure her two children were safe from the raging floods of Typhoon Parma, a storm so powerful that a nearby dam overflowed.
How many streets will have to remain unswept, how many refuse bins left to overflow, and roadways left to crumble to help pay for this latest face-saving exercise.?
In the meantime, the city has built two storage facilities in the eastern beaches and one in the western beaches, designed to intercept sewage overflow.
The floods pale beside the ones we had last year when the whole river overflowed its banks.
If the grating is free and there is an overflow not to be accounted for, it is very possible that a drain-pipe somewhere is choke-full of the roots of some tree. Mary's Meadow; and Letters From a Little Garden
Their granaries were overflowing with plenitude; yet they wanted to keep the sharp famine-edge of their love undulled. WHEN GOD LAUGHS
Here we show, using direct measurements and historical hydrographic data, that the volume flux of the Faroe Bank channel overflow has also decreased. About: Blinded by Science
The cats shared their room with an overflowing litter tray.
Easter had been wet, windy and miserable anyway, and the Beggar and its feeder becks were already to bank level when the freak storm hit the side of Tup Fell and turned swollen into overflowing.
The place was usually overflowing with people. Times, Sunday Times
The fiery broth is overflowing with tender calamari, a crab claw, shrimp, chunks of fish and one impeccable scallop.
The problems started on Sunday night when the water-heating unit malfunctioned and hot water overflowed into the cold tank, Mr Chapman said.
Of course, their eyes, skin, tongue, breath, and lack of vim and vigor tell the story of a long process of self-poisoning, with every now and then the eventuation of a storm of foulness, called a bilious attack -- meaning an overflow of filth. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis
Actually, the river has already overflowed once, and there are further warnings of possible floods.
The debate over vitamins takes place in a marketplace overflowing with supplemental pills, powders and potions.
But then, he was gaining in popularity, and what did it matter if his office was filled to overflowing with exotic paraphernalia, he was reaching that apex to which he had aspired, and the emolument was a mere bagatelle. Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope
The experiment was started to avoid overflow from the existing sewage ponds into the surrounding claypans.
The exhibition will see tables, fireplaces and mantelpieces overflow with more than 40 arrangements inspired by original horticultural designs.
Please imagine profound peace overflowing from our hearts permeating all existence -- even to the hearts of those we consider our enemies," Swami Amritaswarupananda said on behalf of Amma, whose native tongue is Malayalam. Laura Amazzone: Amma: The Divine Mother Embracing The World
We have restored electric supply to the salt works, constructed a sluice gate with the low investment of 24 lakes to check overflow of flood water with the support from salt dept.
We have a lovely rain catchment pond, which has easily collected 50,000 gallons this rain season in a proof-of-concept test, and mostly overflowed. Pond Liners; looking for expertise & materials
A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight.
He who doubts the influence of the individual upon the fate of a country and upon his times through long passages of history may explain the difference between France of 1609, with a martial king aided by great statesmen at its head, with an exchequer overflowing with revenue hoarded for a great cause -- and that cause an attempt at least to pacificate PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete
There's $5 billion in the measure for such clean water projects, including 333 so-called earmarked by lawmakers in both parties, such as $500,000 for Fremont, Ohio, to deal with sewer overflows during heavy rains and $400,000 for Washburn, N.D., for improvements to its drinking water treatment plant. Undefined
The overflowing river took nine lives and destroyed at least 2,000 homes. Times, Sunday Times
A house of this size does not leave much room for frippery and single-task space, so many areas double as sleeping cubbies for overflow visitors.
I really liked the idea that there was a place for overflow.
The river overflows its banks and floods the land with fresh water and deposits a thick layer of rich alluvial soil.
He always fills his glass till it overflows.
It intends to clear some of its overflowing stockpiles and make way for freshly harvested grain, while also settling part of its oil imports bill. Times, Sunday Times
The feast is overflowing with pork, delivered whole on spits from underground umu ovens.
For the past 34 years, Toronto has played host to Caribana, a dazzling carnival overflowing with pulsating steelband, calypso, and breathtaking costume displays.
Being now authorised to admonish her at all times with regard to her gestures, her voice and her accent, I often make her repeat the same sentence; and, when I at last hear her natural voice, her original sweet and attractive voice, to which the music is beginning to return, shily and timidly, my heart overflows with joy. The Choice of Life
The major challenge was to design a tub deep enough for immersion - allowing for some overflow - yet low enough to take advantage of the garden views.
It is assumed that the overflow group has full availability, without the use of service protection methods.
From the holding silo grain passes over the continuous flow drier and any overflow travels back to the holding silos.
When the water got cold I kicked the faucet and let it run until water gurgled into the overflow.
the auditorium was full to overflowing
More than 300 people attended, so the overflow attendees were housed in a dormitory that reeked of fresh paint.
There is a moment in every battle at which the least maneuver is decisive and gives superiority as one drop of water causes overflow.
In that charmed circle he was as overflowingly happy as if he had been admitted to the company of the gods. Mark Twain: A Biography
The crowd overflowed into the street.
The washing-up bowl was overflowing.
Soon, tears overflowed and rolled down my cheeks.
Rosses Point was overflowing on Friday night last as supporters of St. Valentine thronged to the local restaurants, inns and hostelries to celebrate February 14.
This raw spectacle overflows with fizzing stories which unveil the chaotic comedy and tragedy behind a flawed wedding reception.
Every book I have written overflows with that loathing, and I cannot bear the sight of guns.
\tab He saw reflected in the glass a figure coming down the sidewalk-heavyset, middle-aged, wearing a gun belt almost concealed by belly overflowing it, a holstered hogleg on his right thigh, star on his left breast, otherwise dressed much as Lazarus was dressed. Time Enough For Love
Nature in some twenty odd years had draped the cliff with fern -- the _Polypodium vulgare_ -- and Mrs Bosenna in her early married days had planted the crevices with arabis, alyssum, and aubrietia, which had taken root and spread, and now, overflowing their ledges, ran down in cascades of bloom -- white, yellow, and purple. Hocken and Hunken
Folsom's neighbor was a famous "musher," a seasoned, self-reliant man, thoroughly accustomed to all the hazards of winter travel, but ten miles from his destination he crossed an inch-deep overflow which rendered the soles of his muk-luks slippery, and ten yards further on, where the wind had laid the glare-ice bare, he lost his footing. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
The walls were lined with book cases, which were full to the brim, and overflowing onto the floor.
It's far better to ruin a feather pillow than let yourself overflow in violent behaviour.
It was overflown thirteen times in the previous two days by Israeli Air Force planes and eight times just prior to the Israeli attack by various IAF aircraft, some passing so close their engine vibration rattled the Liberty's deck plates and some of their pilots even waved to crew members on board. Thomas Lipscomb: Maybe Brzezinski is Half Right?
The area is regularly overflown by low-flying jets from a nearby military base. Shirakami-sanchi (Shirakami mountains), Japan
The venue is a hotel resort set in a lush tropical garden overflowing with orchids and other native flowers.
The ridge of the roof is a water channel from which water overflows onto the thin roofing membrane of stone and glass.
In the supermarket, we felt grand wheeling around our shopping cart, overflowing with groceries enough for a whole week.
The sages 'religious-devotion, which is lovely because it overflows with the nectarous waters of the knowledge of truth," and "the lusty undertaking of touching with one's palm that hidden part in the firm laps of lovely-limbed women, loving women with great expanses of breasts and thighs. India: The Place of Sex
I was just drifting off to sleep, my mind filled with images of exposed ceiling beams and window boxes overflowing with gerbera daisies, when Alex knocked on my half-opened door. The Opposite of Me
Some of the not overflowing things that can in any case scandalise: Bible quotes Lost in translation « Anglican Samizdat
The "freshet" above, an archaic term today, usually referred to a river overflow from a spring thaw accompanied by heavy rains, although, as in this case, it was sometimes used to refer to flood conditions at any time of year. Weather leading up to the Civil War
The goods overflowed the warehouse.
Tents have been set up next to hospitals to handle the overflow.
Only then did they look down and realize they had overflown their destination -- Wolf. CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2009
With oil, there is always the danger of an overflow while the tanks are being filled. An Alternative Approach to Allergies
The place was usually overflowing with people. Times, Sunday Times
One of those vulnerabilities includes an integer overflow issue that was detected when the RealPlayer system undergoes a "chunked" transfer encoding method, a process which breaks the file the server is sending into digestible "chunks. ChannelWeb Complete Feed
The purpose of this was to stop the leat overflowing in times of high water.
It was therefore fitting that on the feast of the Assumption, the Church, dedicated to Our Lady, was packed to overflowing.
Technology to solve overflowing bins and street rubbish has been tested in Nottingham and Bath saving hundreds of man hours a month. The Sun
When the water got cold I kicked the faucet and let it run until water gurgled into the overflow.
Ships were built both to modernize the navy and to catch the overflow of trade.
This causes problems around culverts, overflow pipes, and other water conduits.
The state Environment Ministry fears that when it rains, the pool overflows and contaminates groundwater. Looming challenge for southern Sudan: Regulating oil companies
The bearers, the priests, and the ailing ones themselves had just intonated a canticle, the song of Bernadette, and all rolled along amid the besetting "Aves," so that the little carts, the litters, and the pedestrians descended the sloping road like a swollen and overflowing torrent of roaring water. The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2
Opening another can of cat food, Clyde added it to the slop overflowing the bowl, scaring up a swirl of flies. DO NO HARM
Some of the impressions you mention are of an overflowingly large family, religious pictures on the walls, and saying the rosary together on holy days. The Loyal Catholic
Pour in some of the syrup, but not all of it, as it will probably overflow.
Flow control ensures that a source host does not overflow the buffers in a destination host.
Too much solder on the seam will cause it to overflow, that is, the solder will spread beyond the papered edges. Elements of Plumbing
The city's sewage treatment plant has suffered three fires and the emergency holding dam will overflow after tonight.
But even yet, he was only a stranger to the boys of the town, and as he went down the street in the drenching rain that filled the syvers to overflowing and rose in a smoke from the calm waters of the bay, they cried "Crotal-coat, crotal-coat," after him. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
He and his family were awoken at about midnight to find themselves knee-deep in water after the storm drains overflowed.
Secondly, it was full to overflowing of hackneyed sexist stereotypes.
The coach-parking area can double up as an overflow car park, with spaces for a further 50 cars if it is not needed for coaches at any time.
The grape spirit market was in decline, too, so the EC wine lake was overflowing.
He always fills his glass till it overflows.
Although Roche-lobe overflow from the companion star seems the most likely source of this material, there is a problem.
It is an overwhelming, overflowing kaleidoscope of color, faces, tanned bodies, trophies, medals and ribbons.
Things had so gone with him that the rostrum was his own, and a House crammed to overflowing was there to listen to him. Phineas Finn
The floods pale beside the ones we had last year when the whole river overflowed its banks.
The intention was to convert the ground floor of a house into a farm shop, replace and enlarge the garden centre and coffee shop and landscape an overflow car park.
They include an overflowing measure of paddy or rice, coconuts, fruits, a lamp, a mirror, and other objects.
If the ongoing Toronto International Film Festival is, as its organizers say, a "smorgasbord" overflowing with hundreds of entrees, think of New York's as three dozen plates of food for thought, served up to offset what appears to be a low-calorie fall from Hollywood. Around The World In 17 Days
The collection of beer bottles, coffee cups and overflowing ashtrays was said to represent the chaos of an artist's studio.
Experts put it down to last year's wet summer washing sewage into the sea from overflow pipes. The Sun
At the top of it is a screw-on metal cap that allows access to the water reservoir or water overflow tank.
There will then be a local overflow and surplus will end up running into distant ground, rivers, wherever gravity will dictate.
Roof outlets, valleys, gutters and overflows need to be inspected and cleaned twice each year, once in the autumn and once in the spring.
The album is overflowing with sweet harmonies and guitar riffs and beats that are edgy without being overbearing.
There is a moment in every battle at which the least maneuver is decisive and gives superiority as one drop of water causes overflow.
This causes problems around culverts, overflow pipes, and other water conduits.
If now the aldose groups tend to pass over into the starch form, representing a temporary overflow product of the assimilating energy, it would appear that the ketose or levulose groups are preferentially used up in the elaboration of the permanent tissue. Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900
If we get a quarter of an inch of rain, the storm drains still overflow. Smithsonian Mag
The bins overflow with gory bandages and field dressings. Times, Sunday Times
It is further required that the relief valve be connected to an overflow pipe, to direct escaping steam and hot water to a safe location where bystanders are not likely to be scalded.
They are now able to refuse to disclose spill data on many of their sewer overflow pipes. Times, Sunday Times
The first flood was caused by a combination of obstructions in the gutter and the absence of any overflow to deal with excess water not taken away by obstructed drains.
Failure analysis and elimination on the overflow of cryogen water from lithium bromide absorption refrigerator were described.
In a fluster she ran into the bathroom and tried to flush the dirty magazine down the toilet, but it only caused it to clog and overflow water all over the just washed bathroom floor.
The milk overflowed when I poured it into the jug.
It cannot be over inflated, as there is an overflow valve that bleeds excess air from the system.
She pointedly turns away to avoid looking at a street person struggling with a laundry cart overflowing with stuff.
The underground chambers, known as sewer overflows, act as safety valves for the sewer network.
The event will kick off at 9.30 am and at 4pm roads in the town centre will be closed to allow market stands and crowds to overflow into the streets.
The nurse is overflowing with love.
And overflow capacity anticipated to be available in other magistrates' courts is no longer there because of changes in the courts system.
They left behind a huge pile of ripped bin bags overflowing with pizza boxes and cans. The Sun
Lillesand is a beautiful little town full of wooden houses with white picket fences and gardens overflowing with roses.
There was an overflow through the roof hatch on two occasions.

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