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  • noun Plural form of cupful.

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Examples

  • Fanny, you go to the well and fill the bucket, and bring it in with water to the brim, not just a few cupfuls, which is your lazy way.

    Heaven V.C.Andrews 1985

  • Fanny, you go to the well and fill the bucket, and bring it in with water to the brim, not just a few cupfuls, which is your lazy way.

    Heaven V.C.Andrews 1985

  • Fanny, you go to the well and fill the bucket, and bring it in with water to the brim, not just a few cupfuls, which is your lazy way.

    Heaven V.C.Andrews 1985

  • Fanny, you go to the well and fill the bucket, and bring it in with water to the brim, not just a few cupfuls, which is your lazy way.

    Heaven V.C.Andrews 1985

  • Indeed, the first attestation of film shows up in a medical document from around the year 1000 AD, when, it appears, inhabitants of England might have been enjoying one or two too many cupfuls of mead:

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Indeed, the first attestation of film shows up in a medical document from around the year 1000 AD, when, it appears, inhabitants of England might have been enjoying one or two too many cupfuls of mead:

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • And there were all of six cupfuls of sugar in the cache, -- if he had foreseen this he would not have been so saving the last several days.

    In a Far Country 2010

  • Add this to three cupfuls of boiled rice; mix in two green peppers seeded and chopped, and a cupful of tomato sauce.

    Jack London's Recipes: An Insight Into Jack's Dietary Habits 2010

  • As opposed to spending lots of cash on lucozade and the like, you can knock your own rehydrate drink up: stir one level teaspoon of salt, and eight level teaspoons of sugar, into one litre (5 cupfuls) of tap water (or halve those amounts in a pint of water).

    Police Body Armour Heatwave Shock! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • They guarded their separate sacks, stored up in the cache, with jealous eyes; for there were but a few cupfuls left, and they were totally devoid of faith in each other.

    In a Far Country 2010

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