carful
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carfuls
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She had a carful of patients she was transporting from the meeting place to the makeshift clinic.
From Washington Post ● May 6, 2022
A carful of them arrived at the hospital at 2 a.m.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2022
Ewan Vidion has just delivered a carful of items donated by reservists and others from around Portsmouth and South Hampshire.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2022
Carroll said the team will be carful with both Carson and Penny as they return which probably points to neither doing much of anything — if anything at all — in the preseason.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2020
Shadow had a carful of Wednesday’s guests to ferry to the restaurant: the woman in the red sari sat in the front seat beside him.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
Friends texted and posted photos of their own pink-hatted planefuls, busfuls, carfuls, coming in from north, south, and west.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 22, 2017
Truckloads of sets arrived from Los Angeles and Chicago; freight carfuls came from New York.
From Time Magazine Archive
With this duty in mind, the Emperor entered an open touring car and, followed by 29 carfuls of dignitaries, made the rounds of nearly all places key-numbered on the map.
From Time Magazine Archive
Missing were the private carfuls of big spenders, the planeloads of Hollywood merry-go-rounders and the toney tipplers who have made Derby Day an uproarious Kentucky Mardi Gras.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two carfuls of tourists passed slowly, their women sitting fore, gripping the handrests.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
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