sackful
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But over the last three decades, poachers have swept in and swept up every snail they could find — every sackful a fat payday.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
Consumers tossed money over the box-office transom by the sackful, creating one of the biggest box-office advances in memory.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2022
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
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
The best part was that we could each gather a free sackful of potatoes to take home.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
"But a lot of younger people wanted to be in the book… I was getting sackfuls of mail. I'm sure the local postman wondered what the hell was going on."
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2021
“It was only when they started receiving sackfuls of correspondence from school kids saying they loved it that we knew we were saved.”
From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2020
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
“You’re here to peel potatoes. Every morning he boils two sackfuls, and we can’t do anything else until they’re clean, or Papito gets mad.”
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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