thimbleful
Americannoun
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thimblefuls
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the amount that a thimble will hold.
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a small quantity, especially of liquid.
noun
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Microbiologists began by isolating the microbial DNA in a thimbleful of soil to see what genes and species were in the sample.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 12, 2021
Yes, there are people whose skills in planning combine with their access to resources and they manage waste down to a monthly thimbleful.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 19, 2019
These 10 wines represent a mere thimbleful of the rosés produced in the United States each year.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2018
Praising him for granting passage to these girls is like giving someone a round of applause for draining the ocean and then pouring in a thimbleful of water.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2017
He handed me a tiny measure, a thimbleful.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
He left so few paintings – not more than 120 over a 40-year career – it is rightly said that he measured out his genius in thimblefuls.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 3, 2016
The idea was to re-create the kind of old-fashioned Milanese bar that might have served the distillery workers pasticceria and thimblefuls of espresso in the 1950s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2015
Watch five minutes of a remote-control back loader shifting two thimblefuls of earth across a hole, and all that will change.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2015
From thimblefuls of powdered bone, the researchers pieced together about three billion base pairs of DNA, covering about two-thirds of the Neanderthal genome.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2010
Chitrigupta patted both of them on the head, and handed them two small thimblefuls of a bright orange liquid.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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