chuck-full
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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Store windows were chuck-full of cameras, Meissen china, English woolens.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is Istanbul's famed Hotel Pera Palace, chuck-full of faded tapestries and the queerest collection of Victorian rocking chairs, settees and oversize bathroom fixtures this side of Bombay.
From Time Magazine Archive
Them two, sor," volunteers Fin, as we pass them lying under the willows near my morning subject, "is as chuck-full of happiness as a hive's full of bees.
From The Under Dog by Smith, Francis Hopkinson
She's al'ays runnin' aroun' with that Pendleton boy an' gal, an' she's chuck-full o' new-fangled notions.
From The Heart of the Hills by Fox, John
I tould him," said he, "I hadn't a cint, but he poured me a tin chuck-full.
From The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson by Moore, Edward A.
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