What is "overfull"

Usage examples of "overfull".

He saw the idea bloom in her eyes in the instant before she caught his arm and turned him with her toward the overfull bookshelves.

My back ached, my stomach felt overfull and churned with odd tastes and textures.

Then he noticed the overfull cooking skin boiling over and putting out the fire.

He buried his childlike face deep into the overfull mug of wine, greedily tipping it back with two hands until the drink streamed down his chin.

The room was generously proportioned but it looked overfull of irritated Vinlanders.

The doors rebounded, popped open, and the overfull trash basket toppled, scattering its contents, knocking the cleansers and the can of oven cleaner onto the floor with a clatter.

Here and there, bodies which had missed their mark on the conveyor or heads that had bounced and rolled free from the overfull barrels were left where they fell until a convenient time for removal could be found.

I pushed myself back into the seat a little, discomfited in equal parts by the pressure of the lithe torso in my lap and my slightly overfull stomach.

CHAPTER XXXVIII CAPITULATION What occurred within the inner cell of the Conciergerie prison within the next half-hour of that 16th day of Pluviose in the year II of the Republic is, perhaps, too well known to history to need or bear overfull repetition.

While its overfull breasts and female genitals were prominently displayed, the writhing gray snakes that made up the creature's hair always obscured its facial features.

So, too, was the woman in the next seat, an even more expensive-looking creature with a mink coat flung cape-wise over her shoulders to show a simple green jersey dress that I suspected cost a small fortune: she was about twenty-five, I guessed, and with her blonde hair, grey eyes and perfect features would have been one of the most beautiful women I had ever seen, if it weren't for the overfull and rather sulky mouth.

The press box was now so overfull, the front row of the three row balcony above was fixed with writing clipboards for those who had no room downstairs.