SURFEIT in a Sentence

Learn SURFEIT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for SURFEIT, such as:

1. A surfeit of rich food is bad for you.
2. Every Thanksgiving we surfeit with an overabundance of holiday treats.
3. 'I should have thought sexual indigestion from surfeit would have interfered with you more seriously,' said Hammond satirically.

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 Meanings and Examples of SURFEIT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
surfeit
 v.  eat until excessively full; be more than full; feed someone to excess
Classic Sentence:
1  I'm sick of the sight of this, and there's no reason you should all die of a surfeit because I've been a fool, cried Amy, wiping her eyes.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
2  'I should have thought sexual indigestion from surfeit would have interfered with you more seriously,' said Hammond satirically.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
3  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.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence:
1  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.
2  A surfeit of rich food is bad for you.
3  Every Thanksgiving we surfeit with an overabundance of holiday treats.