Surfeit used in a sentence

Surfeit in a sentence as a noun

That surfeit of words, if sustained for the length of a book review, re-hides the meaning.

But competing against an entrenched surfeit of cell phone screens?

Steve Jobs seems to have indulged in a surfeit of magical thinking about nutrition.

To be fair, that poem was written when their was a shortage of labor, a surfeit of land, and no government-mandated safety net.

If I am not programming or writing, then I am on my cellphone - same as most people, a smartphone is the main device I use. I don't like ads on my phone, but they don't bother on a laptop web browser because of the surfeit of screen space.

Without licensure you wouldn't have a surfeit of cheap doctors; you'd have quacks running around representing themselves as doctors.

"Officials at schools at or near the tipping point are helplessly watching as their campuses become like boy clubs, with a surfeit of men competing for a handful of surviving women.

Surfeit in a sentence as a verb

If we sit about passively absorbing all that we think we know, we will suffer from a surfeit of derivative knowledge that perhaps deludes us into thinking we know more than we really do.

There are a host of possible reasons why; perhaps we launched with an excess of naïve optimism, through of course a surfeit of optimism is an entrepreneurial necessity.

But then I got to the fourth paragraph and saw this:" Officials at schools ... are helplessly watching as their campuses become like retirement villages, with a surfeit of women competing for a handful of surviving men.

Short of that, backup tapes will decay, hard drives will fail, and if the data somehow stays alive in the "cloud" in a form that's accessible to archaeologists of the future, then they'll surely have an utter surfeit of data.

Is that why there's a surfeit of software companies appearing in the private sector while almost all biomedical companies grow out of government and university laboratories?

The decline in employment in the news, publishing and recording industries reflects the surfeit of digital goods in new media, the efficiencies of computerization and the oversupply of labor.