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Example sentences for "surfeited"

Lexicographically close words:
surfaced; surfaces; surfacing; surfboat; surfeit; surfeiting; surfeits; surfet; surfman; surfmen
  1. This they stormed and sacked by force of overpowering numbers, and, surfeited with victory, they united with their comrades at Te Karaka, and then triumphantly marched home.

  2. We are surfeited with Italian cities for the present, and much prefer to walk the familiar quarterdeck and view this one from a distance.

  3. Thus easily do even the most startling novelties grow tame and spiritless to these sight-surfeited wanderers.

  4. The author of the Account of Lord Anson's Voyage says,[44] that the people on board the Centurion thought it prudent to abstain from fish, as the few which they caught at their first arrival surfeited those who eat of them.

  5. The public were surfeited with this deplorable class of literature until recently, when appeared the great Scot, who effected a revolution, or rather a restoration, in novel-writing.

  6. Her eyes said: How am I to know whether I shall not want more than you; feel suffocated in your arms; be surfeited by all that you will bring me?

  7. He went towards them; the blood flushed up in his face, he felt almost surfeited by some sweet emotion.

  8. What is the Difference in the Happiness of him who is macerated by Abstinence, and his who is surfeited with Excess?

  9. They take their Turns with so quick a Vicissitude, that neither becomes a Habit, or takes Possession of the whole Man; nor is it possible he should be surfeited with either.

  10. No prophetic faculty is needed to foresee that the time is at hand when they will throw off this inhuman constraint, and when the world, surfeited with bloody heroism, will not hesitate to proclaim its disgust and its execration.

  11. She is surfeited with horrors; her endless curiosity gives the impression of hardness and hysterical cruelty.

  12. Our age is surfeited with passions and with heroism; in artistic capacity it is not lacking; the fire of religion, even, has not been withheld.

  13. The world has never yet been surfeited with fruit.

  14. How absurd, then, in the face of such an array of facts as this, the idea that our markets are to be surfeited with fruit!

  15. So Ajib took the gugglet and drank and passed it to the Eunuch; and it went round till their stomachs were full and they were surfeited with a meal larger than their wont.

  16. Quoth the old man, "O my son, thou art young and desirest the joys of the world and I am old and weary and surfeited with the world: I will offer my life as a ransom for thee and for the Wazir and his cousins.

  17. In truth they were both surfeited with the alien, sick of the picturesque.

  18. I realized for the first time that the east had surfeited me with picturesqueness.

  19. Being tired both by their march and their plundering the country in the night, and a great number of them being surfeited with eating and drinking in the cottages, they had scarcely sufficient strength for flight.

  20. We confess that we took up his book rather doubtfully--for who was not long ago surfeited with stories from the front?

  21. I am as surfeited with mountains and inns as if I had eat them," he groaned in a later letter.

  22. On attaining which, they stand like statues for a long time, utter their famous cry, and when surfeited with the sights about them, renew their flight.

  23. Grown weary of its monotony, and surfeited with delights, the flocks now dissolve into pairs.

  24. Such is the ephemeral gladness of the shallow humorist or the surfeited bon vivant.

  25. Master Gunner, than two or three of the forenamed surfeited sailors.

  26. And my reader, if indeed he has kept me company so far, now fidgets a little for fear I am about to mix myself in further complications and pour more follies into the surfeited ear.

  27. To introduce you to somebody might bore you; you may not be a conversationalist, and may prefer to stand and stare like a surfeited ox.

  28. After having surfeited themselves with destruction, they returned, each one laden to his and her utmost capacity with booty.

  29. Surfeited for the time of the luxury of the limitless plain, Riel took rest; and then a girl with the lustrous eyes of Normandy began to smile upon him, and to besiege his heart with all her mysterious force of coquetry.

  30. Whenever I consider that I needs must die, I stretch my cloak upon the ground and am not surfeited with sleeping.

  31. Throckmorton drove rapidly to a simple farm where he was not known and would be no longer surfeited with attentions.

  32. For Parmalee in the play was Hubert Throckmorton, popular screen idol and surfeited with the attentions of adoring women.

  33. In like manner in the master poems we are never surfeited with mere beauty.

  34. I had been rather surfeited with adventures lately, so held my peace.

  35. The touch of this would have turned me sick again, had not the statue's face already surfeited me with horror.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "surfeited" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bloated; brimming; bulging; bursting; capacity; congested; crammed; crowded; disgusted; distended; drenched; engorged; filled; flush; full; glutted; gorged; jaded; jammed; overblown; overburdened; overfed; overflowing; overfull; overloaded; overstuffed; packed; plenary; replete; round; sated; satiate; satiated; satisfied; saturated; soaked; stuffed; supersaturated; surfeited; swollen