How to Use surfeit in a Sentence

surfeit

noun
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  • Right now, there is a surfeit of white men in that suite.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2021
  • But there’s a surfeit of talent at the door that wants to work here.
    — Peter Kafka, Recode, 10 July 2018
  • 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
  • In fact, a surfeit of low gears can even act to undermine your morale.
    — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 21 July 2022
  • Take the surfeit of sage greens that took over the colorverse in the 2022 COTY cycle.
    — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 25 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The river used to be famous for its surfeit of thousands of chinook each spring.
    — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2021
  • This despite the fact that there is a surfeit of graduates in many areas.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2013
  • 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
  • Many bookstores have a surfeit of mid- to low-level stock, but A Good Used Book has high standards for even its cheapest books.
    — Max Bell, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020
  • To start, there's free Wi-Fi throughout the terminal, as well as a surfeit of charging stations.
    — Louis Cheslaw, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Declining ratings, public distrust of the media and the surfeit of news from the Trump White House have added to those pressures.
    — Stephen Battaglio, chicagotribune.com, 2 Dec. 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
  • 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
  • Vile Bodies, published in 1930, took them to task for a surfeit of conceit and a dearth of serious purpose.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 14 Mar. 2020
  • 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 the surfeit of venues in L.A. does not meant that the Olympics will arrive without major infrastructure projects.
    — Adam K. Raymond, Daily Intelligencer, 31 July 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Warren, too, has a surfeit of anti-endorsements to brag about.
    — Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • Yet the surfeit of material makes the task, if anything, harder.
    — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022

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