sackful
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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
Here, then, are a sackful of titles sure to make the season bright.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2016
But before either the gratitude or the barbs, there was simply puzzlement over the identity of a woman who had essentially walked in off the street with a sackful of cash.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 18, 2013
She did this until she had a huge sackful of wedges, which Omakayas lugged back to the camp.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
"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
The group who board carry sackfuls of the few belongings they’ve managed to bring with them – a few solar panels, rice and clothes.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 14, 2017
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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