Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: overflowed
IPA transcription: [,oʊvɚfl'oʊd]
Usage examples
  • But the books have overflowed into all the other rooms too.
  • A great blue bowlful of snowballs overflowed on the polished table.
  • After a moment's mournful silence, his heart overflowed, and he gave way to a flood of tears.
  • They overflowed into the adjoining rooms, down the narrow passages, into the outer courtyards.
  • No one suspected that his barrel of nails was the real 'Horn of Plenty,' from which all this prosperity overflowed.
  • But Christian had enough of both for any ten men, and it was Christian's overflowing despondency and doubt at this point of the road that suddenly filled his own slough, and, I suppose, overflowed into a slough for Pliable also.
  • She found him in his own cosey room drinking whiskey--whiskey undiluted--and felicitating himself upon having foiled her ghost-ship, when all of a sudden the curl went out of his hair, his whiskey bottle filled and overflowed, and he was himself in a condition similar to that of a man who has fallen into a water-butt.