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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
"Only don't blame me, my good Candace," said Grandpapa, laughing, whom the uproar had drawn out of his writing room, "if that monkey eats up all your shopful."
From Ben Pepper by Sidney, Margaret
"It was like you, Ben, when you did remember, to bring me the whole shopful."
From The Romance of a Plain Man by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
I'm a British sailor, Sir; I come to your God-forsaken parish on a Government job, and I happen on a whole shopful of ancient remains.
From News from the Duchy by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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)
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