How to Use overflow in a Sentence

overflow

1 of 2 verb

• The water in the tub overflowed.
• The paragraph overflowed the page.
• The river overflowed its banks.
• The creek overflows every spring.
• Books and papers overflowed his desk.
• Flooding rains caused streams and rivers to swell and overflow their banks.
  — Chris Gloninger, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2023
• The music was blaring, the bar was overflowing, and the air was thick with weed smoke.
  — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 12 July 2023
• In our initial tests, the brew basket overflowed to the point that grounds and hot water spilled over the sides.
  — Olivia Avitt, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2024
• The sale is overflowing with more than a thousand deals.
  — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 24 June 2023
• Shelters and homes have overflowed, and many people have been sleeping in tents or in the streets.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, arkansasonline.com, 8 Dec. 2023
• In early May, the falls were overflowing from its falloff point 1,200 feet above.
  — Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
• The heaping plates overflowed, spilling rice and meat onto the vinyl tablecloth.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2024
• Fire and ice, rivers of mud; destruction from the skies, emotions overflowing on the ground.
  — Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
• Animal shelters across the U.S. are overflowing with cats and dogs in need of homes.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• The tub was overflowing and Sandra was standing above me.
  — Bruce Weber, New York Times, 21 July 2023
• Moody High School was overflowing with fans for the season opener.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 26 Aug. 2023
• The candles in the chandeliers overflowed and spattered wax on the clothes of the fancy people below.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
• The batter expands rapidly and will overflow from the mixing bowl, leaving your counter a mess.
  — Jessica Furniss, Southern Living, 30 Mar. 2024
• Those were stored on-site for customer pickup in an area that soon was overflowing.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
• Ranging from age 18 to 20, the teen band overflows with youth and vitality.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2023
• Meanwhile, the acting races are overflowing with A-list names and celebrities.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 15 June 2023
• Beachfront bars and dance clubs overflowed with spring breakers.
  — Claire Pedersen, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2024
• In Seattle, the fentanyl crisis is so bad that the number of overdose deaths has doubled in the past three years, causing the morgues to overflow.
  — Deidre Olsen, WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
• The comments to his videos are overflowing with praise from loyal viewers.
  — Jack Hillcox, CNN, 24 June 2023
• Life has countless black holes, and only overflowing love can fill these voids.
  — Billboard China, Billboard, 1 Dec. 2023
• Her resume includes film and voiceover work, and is overflowing with roles in theater.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
• In 2017, the dam was closed for two years after powerful storms caused Lake Oroville’s water level to rise and overflow the dam.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 11 Mar. 2023
• By the end of the night, our altar was overflowing with more than a thousand dedication cards, which still blows my mind.
  — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• Instead of china, her cabinets are lined with books; the bird feeder is overflowing, but there’s no food in the kitchen.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• Their legal team filled a table and overflowed onto a courtroom bench.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2023

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overflow

2 of 2 noun

• The drain is in the center of the tub and comes with a chrome pop-up drain cover and a chrome overflow.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Jan. 2024
• On Friday, the stands at Milwaukie were packed and overflow fans stood on the track around the field.
  — Nikstreng, oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2023
• The flush valve will be located in the middle of the tank and includes the overflow tube.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 24 Mar. 2023
• Hundreds of people packed the church and an overflow room.
  — Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 12 Sep. 2023
• Curbside valet is $25 a day and overflow is $10 per day.
  — Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
• The overflow left about one-fifth of the fields underwater.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 5 May 2023
• But the Bucha morgue was farming out overflow corpses to a half dozen other morgues.
  — Erika Kinetz, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2022
• Put the pump in the bottom of the bowl and insert the other end of the tubing into the toilet tank overflow.
  — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
• Walls of books and records, the overflow stacked on sofas, the desk behind another wall, the liquor.
  — Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
• Getting rid of that stack of mail, the pile of shoes by the door, and the overflow from your closet may improve your sense of well-being.
  — Stephanie Dolgoff, Good Housekeeping, 9 Nov. 2022
• The overflow crowd outside watched a giant TV screen of the vigil inside.
  — CBS News, 30 Oct. 2023
• This allows the bubbles to settle and avoids any overflow.
  — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Apr. 2023
• At the time of the dam’s construction, in the 1980s, the two countries agreed that a twin dam would be built on the Nigerian side to contain the overflow.
  — Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
• As black-and-gold jerseys mixed in with the overflow from the venue’s box office, one of the football guys asked what the line was for, and a patron told him.
  — Marley Marius, Vogue, 16 Jan. 2024
• The process also ran cleanly, with any risk of overflow contained by the locking lid.
  — Rena Behar, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 June 2023
• There’s no overflow of hope in Abigail’s heart, no rosy future in her head.
  — Maggie Lange, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
• Our Christmas cards line the mantle, and the overflow, when there is one, goes into a star- shaped basket made of straw.
  — Beth Thames, al, 21 Dec. 2022
• Every day, the road in front of our little house filled up with overflow parking from the new Trader Joe’s.
  — Mai B. Nguyen, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2023
• To that, Stump just pointed to the overflow Friday night crowd, then told one of her favorite anecdotes.
  — Sam McManis, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
• Anyone who didn’t make it into the courtroom could watch the action on TV screens in overflow rooms.
  — James Fanelli, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2023
• Then there are wet wipes, which like the sewage and rainwater flow into the river through the overflow outlets.
  — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 7 June 2023
• The tree removal is part of an effort to clean up sewage overflows from the Pleasant Run waterway that runs through the park.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Feb. 2024
• The list for the door was closed by 3:15 A.M. Michael Lewis ended up in one of the overflow rooms (rumor had it that there were eight), gamely signing books.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
• There were two overflow rooms, but the closed-circuit feed shown in them went no farther—the trial was not televised.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2023
• To do this, click the overflow menu bar (three vertical dots) in the browser's top right corner, then Help > About Google Chrome.
  — Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• Representative @DavidMoralesRI stopped by to chat with them in the overflow area.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2023
• An overflow crowd at City Hall shared passionate pleas for and against the ordinance.
  — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2023
• City staff directed them to an overflow room next door, where the meeting was broadcast.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2023
• But rain can trigger an overflow of the city’s system into the river and New York Harbor.
  — Cari Shane, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2022
• Those who don't win the lottery will watch on monitors in overflow rooms as Trump enters his not guilty plea.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 3 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024