How To Use Overspill In A Sentence

  • It might be suitable for a single piece of sculptural overspill.
  • It overspilled them and spread across the sky in flaggy streams which came together and formed a growing blotch of darkness. The Waste Lands
  • The Moscow-based Orbital Technologies has sky-high hopes that its planned Commercial Space Station can serve as a tourism hub for well-heeled travellers and offer overspill accommodation for the International Space Station and workspace for science projects. Russian Firm Plans Orbiting Hotel In Space
  • Georges Quay will have some overspill space and it remains to be seen what happens with Spencer Dock.
  • With curious looks a pair of tiny-winged amoretti press back the overspill of grapes from the basket they have brought Erigone.
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  • The Business Academy, Bexley, which serves the south-east London overspill estates of Thamesmead and Erith, is the first of a new type of secondary school.
  • You have to give them some space, she said, staring askance at my storage methods, which involved squishing together as many garments as possible and stowing the overspill under the bed, which was itself overspilling. Creating Your Own Clearance Rack
  • But thankfully, the intruder was a youngish man -- innocent if slightly unappealing overspill from the launderette next door. THE CALLIGRAPHER
  • Zuccotti is already packed, according to reports, so there is going to be some overspill.5.39pm: The march is now leaving Foley Square and heading for Zuccotti Park, site of the Occupy Wall Street demonstration. Occupy Wall Street protests - live coverage
  • And then came Black Leclère, to lay his heavy hand on the bit of pulsating puppy life, to press and prod and mould till it became a big bristling beast, acute in knavery, overspilling with hate, sinister, malignant, diabolical. BÂTARD
  • They have also complained to the parish council about noise disturbance at night related to functions at the village hall and the use of the Laurel Croft parking areas as an overspill from the main car park.
  • an overspill housing estate.
  • Like many people in this town she and her husband were part of the London overspill in the 60s.
  • This also needed to be monitored in residential areas to make sure there was no overspill.
  • The arts and social science faculties of Paris university had been moved to an overspill site on the former shanty town of Nanterre in 1964, and had grown from 4,000 to 15,000 students by the autumn of 1967.
  • It was Dawley journalist Mr Bowdler who, in February 1955, wrote an article published in a Birmingham newspaper which suggested that the vast swathes of derelict land in east Shropshire could be used for housing to accommodate the Birmingham "overspill" population. Shropshire Star
  • But thankfully, the intruder was a youngish man -- innocent if slightly unappealing overspill from the launderette next door. THE CALLIGRAPHER
  • On ground level is a studio for meetings, rehearsals, exhibitions, children's shows and overspill from the small café-bar that opens on to the lane outside in the summer.
  • He sent Blackstone to get a torch and tried to make out what he could in the overspill of light from the main cellar. AFTERMATH
  • He sent Blackstone to get a torch and tried to make out what he could in the overspill of light from the main cellar. AFTERMATH
  • People think it is some kind of overspill of London and don't realise the fantastic scenery.
  • A Braintree commuter first reported the problem of overspill from the site on to the railway line at Mill Hill last July.
  • At first he believed his dreams to be some kind of overspill from a full-sense drama that was leaking into the Centurion Station gaiafield. The Dreaming Void
  • The overspill of rain water in winter is a danger to pedestrians, quite apart from the embarrassing appearance.
  • These visitors, and the almost certain overspill of residents' cars, will obviously park on Stonyhurst Avenue, to the further inconvenience and safety of local residents.
  • Parapet walls are normally associated with lead-lined parapet gutters which are prone to overspill when blocked, wetting the brickwork below and which will leak if the lead splits or if the steps are too shallow.
  • I know one of them is used for storage and pub overspill, but if any of the others are suitable you're more than welcome. TICKLED PINK
  • I know one of them is used for storage and pub overspill, but if any of the others are suitable you're more than welcome. TICKLED PINK
  • Make sure you are holding the rod in case the carp feels the hook and bolts, and make sure you have your thumb on the drum of the centrepin to avoid overspill as it spins fast round as line is taken.
  • An overspill from the pub sat on the wall opposite with pints and ghetto-blasters and a dozen pairs of runners hung by their laces from the telegraph wires overhead.
  • Her eyes filled with tears; swam with them; overspilled. Wizard and Glass
  • It would make a big difference if people would just followed simple steps such as putting all rubbish in a black bin bag, which should be knotted to prevent any overspill.
  • Water trickled from the jaws into a stone basin and from there overspilled into a drain. Wildfire
  • More photos and interactive graphics Minot was booming when the Mouse overspilled its banks. As River Crests, Wary City Exhales
  • And residents have billeted their homes to accommodate the overspill.
  • Box up and stow away any overspill of ornaments and act like an obsessively tidy person, neatly fold and put away until you've exchanged contracts.
  • The arts and social science faculties of Paris university had been moved to an overspill site on the former shanty town of Nanterre in 1964, and had grown from 4,000 to 15,000 students by the autumn of 1967.
  • The city was insulated by heavy seasonal overspill.
  • Below them a sumptuous overspill of nasturtiums distends from the orange blazon of their open flowers, and then from the horned bright outbursts of their incipient bloom, to the citrine pallor of their unfolding buds.
  • All its 250 staff had to move to temporary overspill offices on the former Transco site at Heworth Green.
  • And then came Black Leclère, to lay his heavy hand on the bit of pulsating puppy-life, to press and prod and mold it till it became a big, bristling beast, acute in knavery, overspilling with hate, sinister, malignant, diabolical. Diable - A Dog
  • The fourth room is overspilling with giggling, abandoned girls, empty bottles and party streamers.
  • So I'd been needing a couple of much larger external hard drives for some time, one to hold the music collection that had long since overspilled the Maxtor 200 Gb drive, and one to backup the entire system. Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug
  • Now color in all the areas, with the red pen, that actually contain water and a full two centimeters to all sides, to allow for overspill.
  • Leclère, to lay his heavy hand on the bit of pulsating puppy life, to press and prod and mould till it became a big bristling beast, acute in knavery, overspilling with hate, sinister, malignant, diabolical. Batard
  • Walthamstow is like any other anonymous London suburb flourishing from the overspill of city dwellers from areas such as Islington and Hackney.
  • ‘In games like that there's going to be times when there's a bit of tension overspill, it's one of those things,’ he said of the brawl, which involved several players from either side
  • If the decisions are incorrect or made for the wrong reasons, they can transform a pleasant and attractive area into a sprawling mass of houses which will be far worse than the original Salford overspill.
  • The cold snap has turned the bins' overspill into a welcome fast food source for the rat.
  • The former Manchester council overspill estate has been transformed thanks to multi-million pound investment and the work of local people.
  • I can see it now, future intervals at English National Opera being characterised by hordes of opera-loving smokers surreptitiously tippling their Tennants Super as they overspill into the periphery of Trafalgar Square.
  • The overspill from the A & E was packing the corridors, it was bedlam.
  • Unstoppable overspill of abundant fruits and berries, stitched chain of natural hues, fabricant, barbarous, unhooked and lost nobility of the ‘real thing’ rhapsode -
  • Created as one of the postwar new towns, it was first populated as an east London overspill.
  • He boiled tea for the customers in an enormous, pitted stainless-steel kettle, watching with furious concentration as the water seethed, overspilled, and sizzled into the gas flame. THE WHITE TIGER
  • It overspilled them and spread across the sky in flaggy streams which came together and formed a growing blotch of darkness. The Waste Lands
  • The authorities must take the blame for this for turning a blind eye to the town being used as a dumping ground for overspill areas, so we now have anti-social behaviour on a scale that many inner city areas never even see.
  • Not uncommonly there is no bed because of overspill from the medical wards on to the surgical wards, as in winter bed crises, and the operation is postponed for weeks or months.
  • Norris Green was one of the first overspill areas built after the war.
  • And if there really is an overspill, countless off-campus possibilities present themselves. Times, Sunday Times
  • Population has continued to increase, since much of northern Cheshire has become an overspill or dormitory area for nearby Lancashire urban centres.
  • It is also one of the biggest television buyers in Northern Ireland, ensuring maximum overspill into the Republic's multichannel viewers.
  • When I was young, douce burghs like Haddington and Dumfries accepted Glasgow "overspill" populations i.e. cleared slum-dwellers. Whae's Like Us ?
  • But thankfully, the intruder was a youngish man -- innocent if slightly unappealing overspill from the launderette next door. THE CALLIGRAPHER
  • There are a lot of people around that one would have thought would have ended up in Provence, plus a lot of overspill from the Dordogne.
  • Be it climate change, landfill overspill, or any other problem the time is here to hit the filth-monger very, very hard through the taxation system.
  • Box up and stow away any overspill of ornaments and act like an obsessively tidy person, neatly fold and put away until you've exchanged contracts.
  • There is, however, strong evidence to show that the present great Fulmar spread is not of St Kildan birds, but a population overspill from Iceland.
  • Cumbernauld lies 13 miles north from Glasgow, and was developed from 1956 to accommodate Glasgow's overspill.
  • The council also began a programme of buying land in surrounding areas and moving people and industry into newly developed "overspill" estates. Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk
  • New Addington's not a bad council estate, as overspill estates go, but it is enormous and somewhat lacking in character.
  • His fiery temper was liable to overspill. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Greater London Council was developing big new housing estates in the town to accommodate the London overspill.
  • Are we being offered a relief road only on the condition that Leeds can build between 550/800 houses (which figure is correct?) creating an overspill area for Leeds?
  • It was very useful for overspill, which is why its character has changed.
  • As the delegates on the floor allowed themselves to be whipped up into fake passion, like that ersatz cream they used to sell during the war, I popped into the overspill where delegates were watching on the giant screen.
  • The park, a maze of fences and wires and signposts, is undergoing regeneration; the Olympics is not mentioned, but, says Sinclair, it's the overspill from it. How power, money and art are shifting to the East End
  • His fiery temper was liable to overspill. Times, Sunday Times
  • He built a villa nearby in 1949, on the ruins of a Nazi bunker, and any overspill of house guests would be mopped up by the Splen-dee-do, as American clients still insist on pronouncing it.
  • That could have been avoided to a significant extent, if not entirely, by cutting and loading the clay directly into barges in some areas and by restricting the period during which overspill was allowed to continue in others.
  • By 1960 the nurseries had moved out to the south coast around Worthing or had sold up for Greater London overspill housing.

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