sackful
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sackfuls
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He’s a 73-year-old man, a grandfather, who throws hourly tantrums that would make a sackful of weasels look calm and centered.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2019
It has a sackful of bones to pick with the modern world as a whole.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2019
Though, rereading, I find that she describes a friend, hardly more graciously, as wearing a T-shirt “which at our age and our weight looked rather like a sackful of puppies”.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2018
Here, then, are a sackful of titles sure to make the season bright.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2016
"In the valley on the other side of the hill. I had my men pick a sackful as we marched past."
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
"We had sackfuls of letters coming in from children with skin disorders saying that they feel a little bit more confident. That's how savvy she was. So she was so right on so many things."
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2023
The group who board carry sackfuls of the few belongings they’ve managed to bring with them – a few solar panels, rice and clothes.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 14, 2017
A chocolate containing thyme oil has so far scored worst, generating "sackfuls of mail".
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2014
Dr. Pilley found himself visiting Salvation Army stores and buying up sackfuls of used children’s toys to serve as vocabulary items.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2011
At the produce market he stacked a pyramid of oranges on the top and kept two more sackfuls in the cabinet underneath.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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