bowl full

plural bowls full · plural rare bowl fulls

1. alternativeAlternative form of bowlful.

   He ate bowls full of crackers.

   1985, Gregory Mcdonald, Safekeeping, New York, N.Y.: Laurel, Dell Publishing Co., Inc., published 1987, →ISBN, page 52

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   Great bowl fulls of wild tumbling hills, blue mountains in the distance and a silvery stream—the Umzimkulu—winding in and out among the canyons.

   1918 November 12, Amy B. Cowles, “Letter From South Africa”, in Campbell Interurban Press, volume 24, number 36, Campbell, Calif.: Harry C. Smith, published 7 March 1919, page [4], column 3

   Coffee and tea, bowls full, were served at every meal.

   1949, Agnes M[atilda] Larson, “The New Age in Logging and Sawing”, in History of the White Pine Industry in Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, page 370

   Out in the Yard he had rosebushes set out. No one was allowed to touch them, but great bowls full were picked, by his orders, daily and placed in the barren wards and in the dining room and in the nurses’ quarters.

   1954, Helen Buckler, “A National Task”, in Doctor Dan, Pioneer in American Surgery: The Inspiring Story of Daniel Hale Williams, the Negro Who Was the First Surgeon Ever to Operate Successfully on the Human Heart, Boston, Mass.: Atlantic Monthly Press, Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, page 115

   Moreover, we doubt that the statement that the defendant was ultimately trying to place before the jury — “[she] smoked a couple of bowl fulls” — would be admissible as a statement against Kibbe’s penal interest.

   1997, Massachusetts Appeals Court Reports, volume 42, Boston, Mass., page 771

   There, I ate several bowls full of white rice.

   2000, Chen Shui-Bian, translated by David J. Toman, “Learning and Transformation”, in The Son of Taiwan: The Life of Chen Shui-Bian and His Dreams for Taiwan, Upland, Calif.: Taiwan Publishing Co.Ltd., →ISBN, page 33