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
The gold flows in, bubbles up, and that one is full to the top; and then the next is filled, and the next, and so on to the end.
From The Children's Book of London by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
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 Oliver Optic
On her way to supper, however, she looked into the cooky jar and found it full to the top.
From The Cat in Grandfather's House by Carl Henry Grabo
It was a little urn of jade and ivory, and it was full to the top of dried poems written on rose-leaves.
From The Garden of the Plynck by Florence Minard
