Example Sentences

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Mr Lake said Talbot accepted when he attended the property sore "he would take pocketfuls, as much as he could fit in his pockets".

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2024

He’d won two pocketfuls of marbles last week, and he’d done the honorable thing and returned them all.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2019

A group of Allied soldiers dig a tunnel out of a Nazi prison camp, pocketfuls of dirt at a time.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2019

Others, like physicist Jeff Gore, head of the advocacy group Citizens to Retire the Penny, are simply annoyed that we carry around pocketfuls of low-value coins, calling it “a big, horrible waste of time.”

From Salon • Sep. 2, 2017

Popanilla was about to empty part of his pocketfuls into the mendicant's cap, but his companion repressed his unphilosophical facility.

From The Voyage of Captain Popanilla by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield