plateful
Example Sentences
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Flag isn’t like the Baxters’ other animals: He can’t pull a plow, track a bear, provide milk, or become a plateful of cracklings.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
When you bite into a juicy hamburger, slice into the perfect medium-rare steak or gobble down a plateful of chicken nuggets, your senses are most likely responding to the food's smell, taste, texture and color.
From Salon • Nov. 25, 2024
On breaks between shifts, groups of three or four staff members would sneak away to the employee break area to inhale a paper plateful of turkey and casserole and a slice of pumpkin pie.
From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2020
It was the product of our imaginations, a plateful of guesswork.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019
She ate a big plateful of cabbage and salmon and finished off with junket.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.