brimful

Example Sentences

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He is impressed with Ms Forbes, describing her as "honest, straight, true and brimful of integrity".

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2023

Mark Twain wrote that “the pony-rider was usually a little bit of a man, brimful of spirit and endurance.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 10, 2022

"Their history is brimful of chivalrous acts toward weaker animals, cats in particular."

From Salon • May 17, 2021

Five locomotives, with a combined 15,000 horsepower, ready to pull 101 wagons brimful of grain.

From Reuters • Aug. 29, 2018

“My boy, you are brimful of promise. Someone should say this to you before we are shot.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson