How To Use Surfeit In A Sentence
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That's no mean boast, since there's a surfeit of super-featherweight talent around.
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For the past three decades we have basked in a surfeit of energy.
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We are surfeited with Italian cities for the present, and much prefer to walk the familiar quarter-deck and view this one from a distance.
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_unto_ is placed last in the verse, and at the half period, and is redundant, there is the former synchysis in the words "the sword, nor surfeits" which in construction ought to have been placed before the other.
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A surfeit of boldfaced names, from world leaders to media personalities, lend the book a sensational thrill.
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If all else fails, you can always just eat the table decorations, since it seems that every festive table these days plays host to a generous bowl of fruit and nuts and a surfeit of chocolates.
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The failure to laugh signifies in the peasant or the Frenchman a politeness that exceeds his intelligence, in the landowner or the Englishman an excessive rigidity, and in the policeman or the German a surfeit of power.
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We must deal with pleasure as we do with honey, only touch them with the tip of the finger, and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit.
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There is a surfeit of news these days - a string of dramatic, violent, terrible events being played out almost simultaneously in different parts of the world.
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We have been suffering from a surfeit of committees.
Infinite in All Directions
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We must deal with pleasure as we do with honey, only touch them with the tip of the finger, and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit.
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For the past three decades we have basked in a surfeit of energy.
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The surfeit of new sources in America led to a collapse in gas prices.
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In vv 24 and 26a Paul asserts a surfeit of desire and passion by the people he is denouncing, which he characterizes as impurity and dishonor.
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As someone with a surfeit of embarrassing '80s hairstyle photo evidence I am all in favour of today's youth facing similar consequences.
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Contrary to popular belief, most jams aren't caused by roadworks or traffic accidents but by a surfeit of cars on the same route.
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The surfeit of new sources in America led to a collapse in gas prices.
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We must deal with pleasure as we do with honey, only touch them with the tip of the finger, and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit.
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It would have given the National Trust an apoplexy, or a surfeit, or one of those other things they were always dying of way back then.
DEAD BEAT
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The heroine, Catherine Keener's Kate, suffers from a surfeit of empathy, but the movie has suffered only from underexposure.
Kings
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The silence was not due to moral paucity, but to a surfeit of principle - one must never, under any circumstances, compromise one's political neutrality.
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There was a time when the Cardinals were so successful that the fans, like Atlanta's today, became surfeited with victory.
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We must deal with pleasure as we do with honey, only touch them with the tip of the finger, and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit.
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We are suffering from a surfeit of fiction.
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He's still sleeping; he was surfeited with too much wine last night.
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Education suffers from a surfeit of political initiatives that stifle effectiveness.
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I. i.2 (143,2) [that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die] [W: app'tite, Love] It is true, we do not talk of the _death of appetite_, because we do not ordinarily speak in the figurative language of poetry; but that _appetite sickens by a surfeit_ is true, and therefore proper.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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He is said to have died of a surfeit of Rhenish wine and pickled herrings, though it may more likely have been plague, of which there was a severe outbreak in 1592.
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Paulus Jovius in his description of Britain, and Levinus Lemnius, observe as much of this our island, that there was of old no use of [4083] physic amongst us, and but little at this day, except it be for a few nice idle citizens, surfeiting courtiers, and stall-fed gentlemen lubbers.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Education suffers from a surfeit of political initiatives that stifle effectiveness.
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And this peaceful studio with its rural horizon was at once filled with a surfeit of delight such as a child might feel in a house where he was already happily playing when he learned that, in addition, out of that bounteousness which enables lovely things and noble hosts to increase their gifts beyond all measure, there was being prepared for him a sumptuous repast.
Within a Budding Grove
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It is possible now that we are suffering from a surfeit of regulation.
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The food grows so well here that Robyn has plans to turn the surfeit into jams and pickles to sell from the Cascina.
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We must deal with pleasure as we do with honey, only touch them with the tip of the finger, and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit.
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An exquisite embroidered bed hanging and cover of silk and silver wire, known as a "Lit à la Duchesse" and acquired by the Getty in 1979 but never before displayed, makes its debut amid a surfeit of gilded framed paintings and articles related to the morning toilette, the ritual of dressing, coiffing and applying cosmetics that was often a surprisingly public affair for women in polite society.
With All the Time in the World
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A surfeit of superb attacking displays made choosing a front four tricky.
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What authority surfeits on would relieve us: if they would yield us but the superfluity, while it were wholesome, we might guess they relieved us humanely; but they think we are too dear: the leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an inventory to particularise their abundance; our sufferance is a gain to them Let us revenge this with our pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know I speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge.
The Tragedy of Coriolanus
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The newly promoted person may also attempt to minimize the status difference through self-deprecation and a surfeit of leniency toward the new supervisees.
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It doesn't occur to him this highlights our lack of military hardware rather than a surfeit of hooves.
The Sun
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She sees the surfeit of green as an opportunity, but she does not see her opportunity as an effect of map-making and map-reading practices that have wider geopolitical implications.
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Thus do I pine surfeit day by day.
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New York Fashion Week: Rodarte Odd Jobs: Body Make-Up Artist Other British-inspired styles on the runways included broad-brimmed hats at Tommy Hilfiger, the tiny headpieces known as fascinators at Marc Jacobs, and a surfeit of demure, pleated, calf-grazing skirts practically everywhere.
Dress Me, Kate! Modern Modesty
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Compulsory, unaffordable insurance and a surfeit of red tape would encourage providers to move to more profitable alternatives.
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A surfeit of rich food is bad for you.
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Line-ups, unpredictable travel paths, and a surfeit of available activities add up to an unplannable day, an unkeepable schedule, and an unsatisfying level of achievement by the end of the day.
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I live in a detached house with a surfeit of stripped floorboards and a utility room.
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We must deal with pleasure as we do with honey, only touch them with the tip of the finger, and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit.
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It is possible now that we are suffering from a surfeit of regulation.
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Despite a deficit of information and a surfeit of speculation about this tragic incident, the mainstream media did not hesitate to jump to all the familiar, poisonous conclusions.
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The problem is lack of variety: one song merges indistinguishably into another, the surfeit of emotion sounding more maudlin by the minute.
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The problem is, the surfeit of data sits in silos, available only to one particular agency.
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There has been a surfeit of plays about divorce on the television recently.
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A surfeit of rich food is bad for you.
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A surfeit of superb attacking displays made choosing a front four tricky.
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The country has a surfeit of cheap labour.
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We must deal with pleasure as we do with honey, only touch them with the tip of the finger, and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit.
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Shakespeare has him poisoned by a monk, though in reality he died, like so many medieval kings, from eating too much, stuffing his face with ‘a surfeit of peaches and new cider’.
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It's not excess of turkey and plum pudding that has been indigestible; it's the surfeit of news.
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It was obvious once you knew it, of course — the surfeit of art galleries, the way the men were all muscular and fit and shaved, the bars filled with hot chicks in spectacles dancing with each other — but the thing is, as a kid, only the proudest and most confident people tell you, "Hey, I'm gay.
The Terrible Secret Of Provincetown, or: Even A Stopped Clock
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The United States seemed to be suffering from a surfeit of power, which made it difficult for elites to formulate any coherent principles for its use.
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He never sends the pleasures of the spring nor the plenties of harvest to surfeit, but to oblige the sons of men; and the very fruits of the earth are intended as arguments to carry their thoughts to heaven.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
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There remains, unfortunately - and, perhaps, inevitably - a surfeit of woolly-minded writing and talk about emotions and their expression.
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It is possible now that we are suffering from a surfeit of regulation.
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It is a moot point whether corporations and companies that sink so much into supporting televised sport in the form of commercials are really benefiting in this age of a surfeit of everything, from goods to sport.
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Independent surfeit by an auto rhizoid inspector can be arranged at buyer's account.
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We must deal with pleasure as we do with honey, only touch them with the tip of the finger, and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit.
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There has been a surfeit of plays about divorce on the television recently.
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The eyelids often undergo extreme inflammatory and dropsical swelling in urticaria (nettlerash, surfeit) and in the general inflammatory dropsy known as purpura hemorrhagica.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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We must deal with pleasure as we do with honey, only touch them with the tip of the finger, and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit.
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He's still sleeping; he was surfeited with too much wine last night.
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I live in a detached house with a surfeit of stripped floorboards and a utility room.
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I realize that calling people out for not using the serial comma is probably an easier way of communicating clearly that you're a boring, stuffy tight-ass with a surfeit of free time.
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Riders who live here, meanwhile, will enjoy a surfeit of buses, in an effort by the transit system to let municipalities and developers know that compliance with regional growth strategy will be rewarded.
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She wore leather pants and shifted her weight constantly, throwing out knees and hips in lanky contrapposto as if freshly delighted by her surfeit of limb.
Kissinger, Rushdie, Star Jones Splash Into Pool Room For Four Seasons' 50th
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The surfeit of new sources in America led to a collapse in gas prices.
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We did not want to overdo the thing and get a surfeit of it.
Three Men in a Boat
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For the past three decades we have basked in a surfeit of energy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even with such a surfeit of channels, democratic choices will be, to a large extent, restricted to those privileged citizens who can buy access to more than just the free-to-air channels.
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THE late-season charge of Edinburgh Monarchs in the silverware stakes has resulted in a surfeit of extra meetings - but one Monarch who isn't complaining is Aussie reserve Aaron Summers whose finances this term collapsed faster than Lehman Brothers.
Undefined
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We are suffering from a surfeit of fiction.
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We must deal with pleasure as we do with honey, only touch them with the tip of the finger, and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit.
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We must deal with pleasure as we do with honey, only touch them with the tip of the finger, and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit.
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There is nothing in the income tax legislation that precludes people from paying extra taxes as they want to, voluntarily, and I am sure Treasury would not be embarrassed by a surfeit of cheques.
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We must deal with pleasure as we do with honey, only touch them with the tip of the finger, and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit.
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I drink gallons of it during the day and end my dinner with a cup or two of decaf, which is something of a joke since I am already surfeited with caffeine, my drug of choice.
Jay Weston: Wolfgang Puck's Iced Coffee: A Heavenly Glass of Iced Joe!
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It was within five minutes 'walk of their warmth and surfeit; and if they had lifted the window and called, "Who goes there?" the houselessness that prowls the night could have answered them from the street below, "Despair!
Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance
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The surfeit of new sources in America led to a collapse in gas prices.
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He's still sleeping; he was surfeited with too much wine last night.
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I would lie under them and my eyes would rise buoyed up and surfeited in immense rustling viridescence.
Archive 2007-04-03
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We did not want to overdo the thing and get a surfeit of it.
Three Men in a Boat
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But the surfeit of ranges in the store had reminded me of the already oversupplied state of my shoe cupboard.
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In red mange the whole integument is in a state of acute inflammation; surfeit, or blotches, a kind of cuticular eruption breaks out on particular parts of the body without the slightest notice, and, worse than all, a direct febrile attack, with swelling and ulceration, occurs, under which the dog evidently suffers peculiar heat and pain.
The Dog
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Things need shaking up when American women feel endangered even as Yosemite bears lumber around belching, their eyes glazed with surfeit, their pelts covered in Oreo crumbs.
Cheap Thrills
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A surfeit of forehand errors and double faults did not aid the Chinese.
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By the time she was 35, she still looked as if she was in her twenties, red-haired, slim and feisty, with a marked Scottish burr and a surfeit of sex appeal.
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For once, it is not a dearth of international quality, but a surfeit.
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The surfeit of new sources in America led to a collapse in gas prices.
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In 1534, a surfeit of melons took the life of Clement VII.
The Fruit Hunters
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As to roast fowls, Miss, why you must be quite surfeited with roast fowls, letting alone your buying, when you market for yourself, the agedest of poultry with the scaliest of legs, quite as if you was accustomed to picking 'em out for cheapness.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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The surfeit of what became known as the formulaic Full Monty effect eventually inured audiences to the charms of hard knocks/happy future comedies, but
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I could not help reflecting bodingly upon the intemperate zeal with which middle-aged men are apt to surfeit themselves upon a seductive folly which they have tasted for the first time.
The Innocents Abroad — Volume 05
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It's high tide, so the sea in its surfeit doesn't pound itself against the shore but sends its waves softly like gulls gliding.
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We are suffering from a surfeit of fiction.
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Stella - based models such as Limits to Growth possess a remarkable surfeit of feedback circuits.
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At 67 minutes, It may seem a little long, but there's such a surfeit of grooviness you can forgive the odd indulgence.
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Viewers have a surfeit of choice these days when it comes to watching TV - why should we all be commanded to pay a chunk to the BBC, given changes in media consumption trends?
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Two or three lost their lives by a surfeit brought on by that fatal banquet of Rhenish wine and pickled herrings, which is familiar to those who study the lighter literature of that age.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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He's still sleeping; he was surfeited with too much wine last night.
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Nutbeem himself was drawn to crabs in a culinary sense, although a surfeit gave him hives on his forearms.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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A film with music every five minutes is like a novel with ten exclamation points on every page - yet we, who would be embarrassed by a surfeit of exclamations, accept such musical slop unblinkingly.
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In the current affluent West, where surfeit is a far more common phenomenon than famine, excess flesh and lack of bodily ‘fitness’ is interpreted as a sign of laxity, overindulgence and weak will.
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He's still sleeping; he was surfeited with too much wine last night.
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There is a surfeit of civic pride - not to mention the odd attack of the giggles - when the new Mayor of Blackrod and his Mayoress are invited to attend local events.
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As the production gags on a surfeit of imagination, you find yourself filling in an imaginary multiple-choice list, ticking off the useful and crossing out the padding.
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There is a surfeit of snowy peaks only 950 miles west of the Twin Cities.
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I realize that calling people out for not using the serial comma is probably an easier way of communicating clearly that you're a boring, stuffy tight-ass with a surfeit of free time.
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Education suffers from a surfeit of political initiatives that stifle effectiveness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their surfeit of toned booties and biceps had also ‘disgusted’ Kylie Minogue, who claimed they had been responsible for the ‘pornographing of popular culture’.
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One of Oaxaca City´s great charms is its chaotic earthiness not is English library or surfeit of expats and NOB tourists nursing beers on the zocalo and thrilling to the crunchiness of fried grasshoppers.
36 hours in Oaxaca (NYTimes)
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We have been suffering from a surfeit of committees.
Infinite in All Directions
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Just to tantalise; I have a surfeit of pears to find a way of using other than by making pear tart which is my customary response to pears.
Archive 2008-04-01
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A surfeit of properties being shunted onto the market by owners keen to cash in and growing concern over the number of Leith harbour developments are being blamed.
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We have been suffering from a surfeit of committees.
Infinite in All Directions
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A surfeit of forehand errors and double faults did not aid the Chinese.
Times, Sunday Times
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We must deal with pleasure as we do with honey, only touch them with the tip of the finger, and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit.
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Of course, Washington's profligate political class eagerly engaged in deficit spending to provide a surfeit of public-sector debt to close this circle.
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While Christmas on my own has been immensely relaxing, you may be able to ascertain that I'm getting to the stage where a surfeit of my own company means that as soon as I sit down at a keyboard and start to type, a sudden verbal splurge results.
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Despite pre-tournament warnings the game cannot seem to rid itself of diving and there was a surfeit of the antic throughout the competition.
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He's still sleeping; he was surfeited with too much wine last night.
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Play on, Orsino tells his musicians about their love melodies, ‘that, surfeiting / The appetite may sicken, and so die.’
