lapful
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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
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
“A baby is born in the V of a tree and the light is a lapful of limes,” Lockwood writes, her words somewhere between Dr. Seuss’s and a four-year-old’s, collapsing cartoon and life.
From The New Yorker • May 29, 2014
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
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