lapful
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lapfuls
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Ex-NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg got a lapful of Knicks sparkplug Jose Alvarado, Walt Frazier and Patrick Ewing got the biggest Jumbotron cheers of the night, and San Antonio got a critical W.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Thus Nowell-Wilson cradles a lapful of eggs in one of her drawings, whose poses are modeled on classical canvases.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2021
Then she saw the woman’s lapful of food and reached out hungrily.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 2, 2018
I recently found myself with a lapful of beignets, giddy with a childish excitement, in the backseat of a rental car.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2017
As the sun burst into view, I was sitting there waiting, with a whole lapful of equipment.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
I gathered lapfuls of the lovely blossoms, and commenced arranging them in the vases.
From My Brilliant Career by Franklin, Miles
Later, as the ebb-tide flows from marsh to sea, we are parenthetically treated to these two lines: "Run home, little streams, With your lapfuls of stars and dreams."
From Select Poems of Sidney Lanier by Callaway, Morgan
They are handed about from lapfuls in every coffeehouse to persons of quality, are shewn in Westminster-Hall and the Court of Requests.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer by Swift, Jonathan
How many hours of pleasant labour in that enclosed bit of ground there had been; how many lapfuls and basketfuls of fruits the rich reward of the labour; how Lois had enjoyed both!
From Nobody by Warner, Susan
Martin challenged them to prove this, and they plucked lapfuls of the small white daisies with big yellow eyes, and threaded chains of great length, and hung them about each other's necks.
From Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Farjeon, Eleanor
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