Sample Sentences for
surfeit
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    He's full-fleshed and with a surfeit of water.  (source)
    surfeit = excessive amount
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    "I didn't mean that," said Harry, whose brain felt sluggish with exhaustion and from the surfeit of food and wine.  (source)
    surfeit = excess
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    To men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain.  (source)
    surfeit = something in excess supply
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    The team was a very large one, there being a surfeit of able bodies and a shortage of machinery, and the foreman was constantly devising methods of using so many people efficiently.  (source)
    surfeit = more than needed amount
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    I pronounced judgment to this effect: That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.  (source)
    surfeited = over indulged
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    There is nothing so absurd, so surfeiting, so ridiculous, as a man heated by wine in his head, and wicked gust in his inclination together;†  (source)
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    If he fill'd His vacancy with his voluptuousness, Full surfeits and the dryness of his bones Call on him for't: but to confound such time That drums him from his sport, and speaks as loud As his own state and ours,—'tis to be chid As we rate boys, who, being mature in knowledge, Pawn their experience to their present pleasure, And so rebel to judgment.†  (source)
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    —Menas, I did not think This amorous surfeiter would have donn'd his helm For such a petty war; his soldiership Is twice the other twain: but let us rear The higher our opinion, that our stirring Can from the lap of Egypt's widow pluck The ne'er lust-wearied Antony.†  (source)
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    That means both that you are exceptionally strong-willed and that you are able to suspend the functioning of your imagination—for it is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as most believe.  (source)
    surfeit = excess
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    When the summer comes," said Lord Marchmain, oblivious of the deep corn and swelling fruit and the surfeited bees who slowly sought their hives in the heavy afternoon sunlight outside his windows, "when the summer comes, I shall leave my bed and sit in the open air and breathe more easily.†  (source)
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    But the next morn betimes, His purpose surfeiting, he sends a warrant For my poor brother's head.†  (source)
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    Ten would be a surfeit.  (source)
    surfeit = overabundant supply
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    I am sure it is surfeited with babies and is now coming after adults.†  (source)
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