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Six example sentences with surfeit, each labelled with its topic.
After three days of holiday leftovers the family reached a surfeit that no amount of gravy could disguise.
Cooking
Critics complained of a surfeit of sequels, arguing that audiences had been fed the same story four summers running.
Movies
By the fourth cathedral tour a surfeit of gilded ceilings had set in, and nobody looked up anymore.
Travel
A surfeit of grain after the record harvest pushed prices so low that farmers stored it rather than sell.
Economics
The album suffers from a surfeit of strings, with every quiet verse buried under a full orchestra.
Music
A surfeit of meetings left the team with no hours to do the work the meetings were about.
Business
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