full to the top
Example Sentences
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Yet after one cleaning, two trash barrels remained full to the top, and a popular dumping ground, just a block away, was still fouled with trash.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2019
In this part of the river, the stream was full to the top of its banks, and in some places it overflowed them.
From Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi by Optic, Oliver
Mountains of seas swept clean over the bark in their mad race, filling her decks full to the top of the bulwarks, and shaking things generally.
From Voyage of the Liberdade by Slocum, Joshua
The girl did as she was ordered, but the water drew the hole together, and the boot became full to the top.
From Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Hunt, Margaret
The trees grew close together, and the creek, full to the top, cooled the air; it was racing merrily along, several fine salmon on its surface.
From A Daughter of the Vine by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
