How to use "surplus" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "surplus" in popular movie and book plots

  • Tully was a prosperous town in tropical north Queensland, until Brazil dumped its sugar surplus on the global market.  - Big Dreamers
  • His unemployment leaves him feeling frustrated, although he refuses to work in his brother Tom's military surplus store.  - Harry & Son
  • McDonagh now has enough money to pay off his debts to his bookie and uses his surplus earnings to place a new bet.  - Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
  • The board discusses what to do with a surplus of money.  - Places Where They Sing
  • The surplus jars are destroyed, and Shimmer in her dragon form manages to float off the island, helping the humans cross the river.  - Dragon Cauldron
  • He proceeds to obtain surplus rockets by hosting an orgy at Whispering Glades with top Air Force brass as guests of honor.  - The Loved One (film)
  • The Corvallis, a 270-foot wooden-hulled freighter that was surplus from World War I, was purchased from theS.  - The Half-Way Girl
  • His sloppiness and overall surplus of excitement is noted by his teacher, Miss Meeks.  - Loser (novel)
  • In a parallel story, Jake Sisko and Nog acquire surplus yammok sauce from Quark.  - Progress (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
  • Homer had been inspecting a bomb shelter he was considering buying from Herman's military surplus store.  - Treehouse of Horror VIII
  • The story takes place during a future global oil shortage, Tunisia is suddenly discovered to possess a surplus of high-grade oil.  - Codename: ICEMAN
  • Production quotas have been imposed, and foodstuffs rationed, with the surplus being shipped to the Soviet Union.  - Amerika (miniseries)
  • But I thought the surplus will increase the explosive effect.  - Johann Georg Elser
  • Matrix breaks into a surplus store to equip himself with military weaponry, but is immediately arrested by the police.  - Commando (1985 film)
  • They sell or barter surplus crops for essentials they cannot make themselves.  - The Good Life (1975 TV series)
  • 22s, Winchester lever actions, 12 gauge shotguns, and military surplus rifles.  - The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming

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