plateful
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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
Alexandra herself worked on “getting fuller on less,” trying to limit each meal to a single plateful.
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2023
So, if you're looking to usher in more luck in 2023, be sure to also enjoy a plateful of lucky foods!
From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2022
“I’ve never told my whole story before,” she said, sitting across from Miles with a plateful of sausage and fried eggs, “only bits of it.”
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 15, 2018
“Tell you what,” he said, “you and I’ll mix up those pancakes and take a plateful right up to her, and she can eat in bed for once, like a lady.”
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
A cavernous, popular arcade in Brussels which for generations has drawn partiers seeking platefuls of mussels to wash down with that city’s famed brews sadly no longer resounds with late-evening laughter and chatter.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 24, 2020
People used to stampede down the halls when it was cookie time and grab handfuls or platefuls instead of taking one.
From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2019
In his mind, X. says some strongly-worded things about girls as a concept, eats two platefuls of chubby little doughnuts, and succumbs to several hours of moral and physical melancholy.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 23, 2018
Groups of people were staggering around clutching platefuls of them.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2017
If my mother had been in the room, she would have told me these poor people were victims of future husbands and wives who had failed to eat platefuls of food.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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