How to Use surfeit in a Sentence

surfeit

noun
  • But there’s a surfeit of talent at the door that wants to work here.
    — Peter Kafka, Recode, 10 July 2018
  • Both men marveled at the surfeit of shovels stacked by the door.
    — Howard Halle, ARTnews.com, 10 Apr. 2026
  • In fact, a surfeit of low gears can even act to undermine your morale.
    — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 21 July 2022
  • Which brings us back to the show’s surfeit of history lessons.
    — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The path for spawning salmon also will be eased by the surfeit of water.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2023
  • This is an abiding complaint among young men in a country with a surfeit of them.
    — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2018
  • There’s a surfeit of acting talent in them, and a dearth of uplift.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2022
  • On the plus side, all these closings will be more than offset by the surfeit of openings.
    — Michael Klein, Philly.com, 24 Jan. 2018
  • If there’s a surfeit of earnestness here, maybe that’s what’s necessary to drive change.
    — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Nov. 2019
  • This despite the fact that there is a surfeit of graduates in many areas.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2013
  • The river used to be famous for its surfeit of thousands of chinook each spring.
    — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Besides using up your surfeit of squash, this recipe will even satisfy the kids.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 23 May 2026
  • The days to come will see a surfeit of commentary and analysis of the depth of that legacy.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Warren, too, has a surfeit of anti-endorsements to brag about.
    — Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Hanslick was within his rights to bemoan a surfeit of blaring brass and of cymbal crashes.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • There’s a surfeit of young talent coming in next year and no one should feel their position is assured.
    — Michael Powell, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2017
  • When the moose flourished, a surfeit of easy prey led the wolf population to increase.
    — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2020
  • But so do many parts of the film, which is burdened with a surfeit of narrative threads and storytelling modes.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 24 June 2021
  • From a surfeit of forwards, the Mavs are glaringly lacking in guards.
    — John Hollinger, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • But the surfeit of fringe at shows this week owes a debt to an entirely different cast of characters.
    — Ruth La Ferla, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2017
  • But there there’s been a preponderance, a surfeit, of podcasts of late, and God bless all of them.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Yet the surfeit of material makes the task, if anything, harder.
    — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
  • The more contemplative second act suffers a bit from a surfeit of point-making plot.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2019
  • After a surfeit of press early on, the gilets jaunes’ abrupt decline has been conspicuous.
    — Stephen Paduano, The New Republic, 13 June 2019
  • One of the clearest pieces of evidence that his style was spot-on is from the surfeit of praise from people about episodes that featured their hometowns.
    — Connie Wang, refinery29.com, 8 June 2018
  • Its jury contains not a single Black member — though it has been peopled by a surfeit of British lords.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Paltrow has the means, but there isn’t exactly a surfeit of work on the market by the artist, who died in 2013.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Maybe the nuns could be transformed into spa therapists at a wellness retreat and the toxin explained away as a surfeit of matcha.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • That has never been the case for the first two seasons of House of the Dragon, with its surfeit of…everything.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 15 June 2026
  • The photograph’s edges — the only sharp, straight lines anywhere to be seen — slice off a view that is otherwise a surfeit of graceful curves.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022

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