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cupful

[kuhp-fool] / ˈkʌp fʊl /


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On a recent afternoon, Gérald poured less than a cupful of cooking oil into an old water bottle and handed it to a young boy.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2024

Each child participated, lowering a cupful into the water and tipping it until the eggs tumbled out and settled on a metal screen.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2022

"A simple-minded but perfect way to master the movement is to practice outdoors with half a cupful of dried beans."

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2022

Beat a single egg white, he wrote, and you’ll end up with “a cupful of snowy white foam, a cohesive structure that clings to the bowl when you turn it upside down.”

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2022

Kevin poured each of them a cupful of Coke.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer




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