pocketful
noun
the amount that a pocket will hold.
pocketfuls
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pluralof pocketful.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
The little tailor, not idle, gathered two pocketfuls of stones and with these climbed up a tree.
From Types of Children's Literature by Walter Barnes
