Example Sentences

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Working with just ones, noughts, and a saucerful of secrets, these ground-breaking artists stand front and centre of any modern corporate or commerical strategy.

From Forbes • Jun. 30, 2015

It later aroused considerable speculation as to how, without being sadly watered down, a good saucerful of TV fun could fill a regulation soup bowl of a play.

From Time Magazine Archive

The milk carton was almost empty, but if she diluted what was left with a little warm water there was just enough for a saucerful.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

Among other things that he turned loose in his inner man were two plates of Lobster Salade, a glass of fresh cider and a saucerful of pistache ice-cream.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney

I knew a few bushes and kept it secret, for if I found a saucerful I was sure of a small pie baked by my mother, and all my own.

From Confessions of Boyhood by Albee, John