sackful
Americannoun
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sackfuls
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But over the last three decades, poachers have swept in and swept up every snail they could find — every sackful a fat payday.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
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
Though, rereading, I find that she describes a friend, hardly more graciously, as wearing a T-shirt “which at our age and our weight looked rather like a sackful of puppies”.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2018
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
"We had sackfuls of letters coming in from children with skin disorders saying that they feel a little bit more confident. That's how savvy she was. So she was so right on so many things."
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2023
"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 mall has sackfuls of Santas: there’s a Santa who knows sign language, and a Santa “by appointment” for people who don’t want to wait.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2017
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
At the produce market he stacked a pyramid of oranges on the top and kept two more sackfuls in the cabinet underneath.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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