Overflowed Sentence Examples

As a result, the population has overflowed into several populous suburbs industrially a part of a "greater" Milwaukee.

In 1699 Batavia was visited by a terrible earthquake, and the streams were choked by the mud from the volcano of Gunong Salak; they overflowed the surrounding country and made it a swamp, by which the climate was so affected that the city became notorious for its unhealthiness, and was in great danger of being altogether abandoned.

Then his eyes overflowed with tears, and he fell on his knees before the king.

Near the lake the valley was formerly swampy, and at high-water the lake overflowed into it.

But between the Lake of Zurich and the Walensee the huge desolate alluvial plain grew ever in size, while great damage was done by the river, which overflowed its bed and the dykes built to protect the region near it.

But the flood of anecdote and criticism overflowed the narrow channel.

It is simply the drainage ditch of districts which are extensively overflowed in the rainy season.

The state normal schools are supported largely from the interest ($89,137 in 1908) of a fund ($1,957,230 in 1908) created in 1865 from the sale of swamp and overflowed lands, and from an annual state tax ($230,000 in 008).

The Frankish armies then overflowed into the neighboring countries and began to pillage them.

But when my teacher presented me with a canary, my cup of happiness overflowed.

They reached a river that had overflowed its banks and which they had to cross by ferry.

Most of the small closed basins, however, contain "playas," or alkali mud flats, that are overflowed when the tributary streams are supplied with storm water.

Such tides as set towards the Himalaya broke against their farther buttresses, leaving an interesting ethnographical flotsam in the northern valleys; but they never overflowed the Himalayan barrier.

Its present deserted and malarious state is probably owing to the silting up of the mouth of the Silarus, which has overflowed its bed, and converted the plain into unproductive marshy ground.

Approached by a flight of steps partly rock-cut, it had at the rear of the porch a balustrade with marble lions' heads through which the water overflowed.

Most of the large Texas rivers have deposited great quantities of silt along their lower courses on the Coastal Plain, where the current is often sluggish and the banks are periodically overflowed.

Their advance to the south was checked by the indomitable opposition of the Araucanians, but from the southern Andes the Spaniards overflowed on to the great plains which now form the interior of the Argentine Republic. The first permanent settlement at the mouth of the river Plate at Buenos Aires dates from 1580.

Behind these batteries were Reelfoot Lake and overflowed lands.

Nor was this by any means the first occasion on which the Arabian cauldron had overflowed; once and again in former times emigrant swarms of Bedouins had settled on the borders of the wilderness.

Her emotions soared even higher at his words, until her tears overflowed.

It is here that an irrigation project, involving the diversion of some of the river water to the low plain, led to disaster in 1904, when the flooded river washed away the canal gates at the intake and overflowed the plain, drowning the newly established farms, compelling a railway to shift its track, and forming a lake (Salton Sea) which would require years of evaporation to remove (see COLORADO RIvER).

Anna Pavlovna Scherer on the contrary, despite her forty years, overflowed with animation and impulsiveness.

It was as if joy--a supreme joy apart from the joys and sorrows of this world--overflowed the great grief within her.

A sense of pity he had never before known overflowed Pierre's heart.

He remembered everything, and ecstatic pity and love for that man overflowed his happy heart.

Wiping them away, she padded into the hall, down the stairs, and to her studio, which overflowed with paintings she'd done in the eight days since returning.

The weather during the whole of October had been unusually wet, the swollen Danube overflowed the low ground and the roads had become quagmires.

In the valleys of rivers which have overflowed their banks and on level bench lands there is considerable silt and vegetable loam mixed with glacial clay; but on the hills and ridges of western Washington the soil is almost wholly a glacial deposit consisting principally of clay but usually containing some sand and gravel.