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See -ful.
Etymology
Origin of shopful
Example Sentences
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The jolt splintered the ice and sent glass-covered limbs clattering to earth like a shopful of shattering crystal.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
A shopful of jewelry could not compare to him.
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)
Nor did she mean to voice her wishes before a shopful of people who might consider them ambiguous.
From The Wrong Twin by Wilson, Harry Leon
Of the doctor so gentle, The other sick boys, And oh! a whole shopful Of beautiful toys!
From London Town by Crane, Thomas
Here she sat, in the little enclosure of this upper room above a shopful of strange Delikatessen, securely adrift.
From Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 by Richardson, Dorothy Miller
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