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

She was always welcome, and many a saucerful of creamy milk was put down to her on these occasions.

From Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat by Stables, Gordon

Your Mar said we was to put in a tack here and there between the rings, and there was a saucerful just there.

From A Houseful of Girls by Prout, Victor