cupful
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On a recent afternoon, Gérald poured less than a cupful of cooking oil into an old water bottle and handed it to a young boy.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
As Sisk carried a cupful to the tank, she said she was “talking to the eggs about their ancestors,” the salmon that swam there long ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2022
"A simple-minded but perfect way to master the movement is to practice outdoors with half a cupful of dried beans."
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2022
When the casing shrinks in the heat of the oven, it pulls up the sides of each slice, forming a little meat cupful of spicy oil.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2019
Once he woke and asked again for water; I gave him a cupful.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
Because, he explains, "with all our knowledge of chemistry we could not produce a meal from a few cupfuls of chalk and salt."
From Scientific American ● Sep. 16, 2019
The key is to think of herbs — particularly the tender ones — not as accents used in mere tablespoons but rather as star players tossed in by fistfuls and cupfuls.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2019
People waited patiently for nearly two hours for a shot at the chili bowls and the fried chicken sandwiches, the flat bean-filled tacos called "foldies" and the cupfuls of stewed collard greens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2016
The crowd leaned over creaking police barricades to snatch cupfuls of free gelato given out along the parade route.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2015
Most of the knots fixed that morning had loosened under her headcloth and were now cupfuls of soft wool her fingers thrilled to.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
