carful
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“If you have a lot of power, you’ve got to be carful how you exercise that power,” Ellis told the lawyers at the trial’s outset, outside the jury’s presence.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2022
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
I'd better tell them to be more carful or they'll be caught and then there'll be real trouble.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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
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
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
Two carfuls of tourists passed slowly, their women sitting fore, gripping the handrests.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
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