How to Use spillover in a Sentence

spillover

noun

• Put a pan under the pie to catch any spillovers.
• New technology has a positive spillover effect into countless fields.
• The wildlife spillover idea has millions of chances to occur.
  — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 2 Apr. 2021
• And stopping those spillovers hasn’t seen much progress.
  — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
• Be sure to cover the top of your blender with a dish towel in case there’s spillover.
  — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 25 Jan. 2024
• There's a spillover that has US gas prices at a seven-year high.
  — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 13 Oct. 2021
• These are summed up in a risk score out of 155; the higher the score, the more likelihood of spillover.
  — Harini Barath, Scientific American, 16 June 2021
• Or the notion of a wildlife spillover, with a million or so chances to occur?
  — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 2 Apr. 2021
• The slow pace of construction in the Bay Area has a spillover effect across the country.
  — Sergio Lopez, Time, 24 Aug. 2021
• And then think about what the spillover effects of such a prolonged office slump might be.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 18 July 2023
• On the Edge The moment in which a virus jumps from an animal to a human is called spillover.
  — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 7 Mar. 2023
• The schools also saw some spillover gains in students’ math achievement.
  — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Feb. 2024
• People in areas with a high risk of spillover don’t need to stop living their lives.
  — Deborah Kochevar, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2021
• But research has shown that there are spillover effects, too.
  — Renee Hsia, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
• The spillover effect of the crisis might have a profound influence on the market.
  — Alfred Cang, Fortune, 6 June 2022
• Biden acknowledged that the weeks or months ahead will be hard on Ukrainians, with a spillover on the world and its markets.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2022
• This bra fits well with no gaps and no spillover, and the breathable mesh fabric is comfortable and soft.
  — Maya Polton, Parents, 16 May 2024
• The spillover effects of gun violence are sweeping, and not just for the victims.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
• Cass sees a huge spillover effect from Adams to local opinions.
  — Max Rivlin-Nadler, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2023
• Nervous investors have rushed to gold in the past few days, worried about a spillover from the banking sector.
  — Hardika Singh, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2023
• And this is having spillover effects on our campuses and, of course, in some cities.
  — CBS News, 28 Apr. 2024
• This contact is believed to increase the risk of spillover, in which a pathogen moves from one species to another.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
• The courtroom was full, and the spillover room also filled to capacity with members of the public.
  — Mo Abbas, NBC News, 6 June 2023
• Many of those were spillover from a list for its previous watch from 2016, the Remontoire, which sold out in about two years.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2023
• The best protection against spillover and spillback may be the same ones currently in use.
  — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2022
• Meanwhile, people who live in the neighborhood face the prospect of traffic spillover.
  — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
• Some have blamed Nepal's rapid surge in infections on the spillover effect from India.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 7 May 2021
• In fact, there’s no reason to assume that the spillover to humans happened anywhere near Wuhan.
  — Lindsay Beyerstein, The New Republic, 29 June 2021
• Urban spillover is becoming a greater threat as wildfires grow.
  — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2024
• Modern communities aren’t built to prepare for this kind of spillover.
  — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024