spill over

A new paper outlines five steps required for a virus to ‘spill over’ from bats to humans.

In vain, they hoped that bits of aid would spill over to them from the Olympic party.

With each passing day, South Sudan is sliding toward full-scale civil war, with major regional spill-over.

He is ready for reform, so long as it does not spill over into politics.

But the major political forces in Lebanon decided to try to quarantine the spill-over effect to that northern area.

The sandy bed then becomes full from bank to bank, and the silt laden waters spill over into the cultivated lowlands beyond.

The finer part forms an inner cylindrical stratum, but is allowed to spill over the edge of the rim.

Soon the pastures become filled with the feeding flocks, and then herdsmen and herds spill over into other fields.

Betty was very rosy and full of something that was bound to spill over at once.

The tears had been welling up behind her eyes so fast that she was afraid some of them would spill over.