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

Laegaire and Conall are here, the flagon full to the top, And the cups— Laegaire It is Cuchulain.

From The Green Helmet and Other Poems by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

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 Minard, Florence

It was full to the top with banknotes and securities.

From The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)

But when the first sunbeams fell on the garden, he saw the ten sacks full to the top, and not a grain was missing.

From Snowdrop and Other Tales by Grimm, Jacob