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Definition of sackful in English:

sackful

nounPlural sackfuls ˈsakfʊlˈsækˌfʊl
  • 1The quantity of something held by a sack.

    一满袋,一整包

    a sackful of rice

    满满一袋大米。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Most vendors arrive by the droves from villages every day, carrying sackfuls of vegetables.
    • A ballad that Thompson plays live tells Shakespeare's tale of the King of France sending Henry V a sackful of tennis balls, insinuating that he should be playing games, not fighting wars.
    • A gang of Chinese immigrants, face deportation after being caught stealing sackfuls of protected cockles from a Scottish beach.
    • I insist on being read each and every one, so that I may duly reward each well-wisher with a sackful of sugar beets from the Zweibel ancestral home in Prussia.
    • Next door the grocer has piles of fresh fruit, 2lb bags of apples for a quid, every herb you see on Ready Steady Cook or AWT's garden, sackfuls of potatoes of every variety, all displayed in wicker baskets.
    • The guard, who had been speaking frantically into some kind of communicating device, fell like a sackful of potatoes.
    • Only a man with a dodgy moustache, a sinister glint in his eye and a sackful of puppies in the boot of his car is likely to raise their suspicions.
    • A sackful of medals followed, and his partnership with John Toshack is still talked about by misty-eyed Liverpool fans even today.
    • While all this was under way, out of the white dimness came the contractor, carrying four wooden stakes, a heavy sackful of something, and two bottles of sake; and knowing exactly what to do.
    • One stall sold a dozen different types of beancurd; others displayed great sackfuls of glossy red chillies and pink Sichuan pepper, or enormous clay urns filled with rice wine.
    • As word of Balboa's discovery spread, other Spaniards headed for the Gulf of Panama and returned with sackfuls of pearls.
    • They don't fool me in their red vans and their long white beards and their false ho ho ho laughs, coming down your chimney at Christmas with sackfuls of letters.
    • When Edward O'Reilly bought the manuscript library of the poet and scribe Muiris Ó Gormáin in 1794 it amounted to five sackfuls.
    • Peter Townend, pictured, who owns South End Hall on Tickhill Street, off Leeds Road, arrived at work yesterday to find sackfuls of refuse blocking the entrance to his premises.
    • A Health board faces the threat of prosecution and a hefty fine following the discovery of several sackfuls of waste in a field near one of its clinics.
    • Mr Gallagher said Mrs Gillard was then bombarded with flowers and chocolates and sackfuls of junk mail at the home she shared with her husband Alaric.
    • The contingent from the Royal Regiment - formerly the Lancashire Fusiliers - brought a sackful of cuddly toys to hand out as presents.
    • Under cover of darkness, and armed with sackfuls of rubbish, he wreaks havoc on the tidy town's effort, dumping in areas which have recently been cleaned up by local environmentalists.
    1. 1.1British A large number or amount of something.
      they've got a sackful of valuable entertainment copyrights
      there was plenty for dessert—apricots and mulberries by the sackful

Definition of sackful in US English:

sackful

nounˈsakˌfo͝olˈsækˌfʊl
  • 1The quantity of something held by a sack.

    一满袋,一整包

    a sackful of rice

    满满一袋大米。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A sackful of medals followed, and his partnership with John Toshack is still talked about by misty-eyed Liverpool fans even today.
    • A ballad that Thompson plays live tells Shakespeare's tale of the King of France sending Henry V a sackful of tennis balls, insinuating that he should be playing games, not fighting wars.
    • As word of Balboa's discovery spread, other Spaniards headed for the Gulf of Panama and returned with sackfuls of pearls.
    • While all this was under way, out of the white dimness came the contractor, carrying four wooden stakes, a heavy sackful of something, and two bottles of sake; and knowing exactly what to do.
    • Most vendors arrive by the droves from villages every day, carrying sackfuls of vegetables.
    • One stall sold a dozen different types of beancurd; others displayed great sackfuls of glossy red chillies and pink Sichuan pepper, or enormous clay urns filled with rice wine.
    • Peter Townend, pictured, who owns South End Hall on Tickhill Street, off Leeds Road, arrived at work yesterday to find sackfuls of refuse blocking the entrance to his premises.
    • I insist on being read each and every one, so that I may duly reward each well-wisher with a sackful of sugar beets from the Zweibel ancestral home in Prussia.
    • They don't fool me in their red vans and their long white beards and their false ho ho ho laughs, coming down your chimney at Christmas with sackfuls of letters.
    • Next door the grocer has piles of fresh fruit, 2lb bags of apples for a quid, every herb you see on Ready Steady Cook or AWT's garden, sackfuls of potatoes of every variety, all displayed in wicker baskets.
    • A gang of Chinese immigrants, face deportation after being caught stealing sackfuls of protected cockles from a Scottish beach.
    • Mr Gallagher said Mrs Gillard was then bombarded with flowers and chocolates and sackfuls of junk mail at the home she shared with her husband Alaric.
    • The contingent from the Royal Regiment - formerly the Lancashire Fusiliers - brought a sackful of cuddly toys to hand out as presents.
    • Under cover of darkness, and armed with sackfuls of rubbish, he wreaks havoc on the tidy town's effort, dumping in areas which have recently been cleaned up by local environmentalists.
    • Only a man with a dodgy moustache, a sinister glint in his eye and a sackful of puppies in the boot of his car is likely to raise their suspicions.
    • When Edward O'Reilly bought the manuscript library of the poet and scribe Muiris Ó Gormáin in 1794 it amounted to five sackfuls.
    • A Health board faces the threat of prosecution and a hefty fine following the discovery of several sackfuls of waste in a field near one of its clinics.
    • The guard, who had been speaking frantically into some kind of communicating device, fell like a sackful of potatoes.
    1. 1.1British A large number or amount of something.
      they've got a sackful of valuable entertainment copyrights
      there was plenty for dessert—apricots and mulberries by the sackful
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