thimblefuls
- plural of thimbleful.
Example Sentences
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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
And between the good and the bad there were others, moments colored not so much by fear or danger but by tiny heartbreaks, thimblefuls of betrayal.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
