cupful
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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
Cope asks Truelove if he wants coffee and fetches a small paper cupful before asking about his living situation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2023
"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
When the casing shrinks in the heat of the oven, it pulls up the sides of each slice, forming a little meat cupful of spicy oil.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2019
Taking the pot up eagerly, Yitzchak poured himself a cupful that slopped over the rim.
From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen
We sloshed cupfuls from a field across from the school, brought it back to our little tables and carefully used a dropper to transfer the pond water to a microscope slide.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2020
Because, he explains, "with all our knowledge of chemistry we could not produce a meal from a few cupfuls of chalk and salt."
From Scientific American ● Sep. 16, 2019
The key is to think of herbs — particularly the tender ones — not as accents used in mere tablespoons but rather as star players tossed in by fistfuls and cupfuls.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2019
People waited patiently for nearly two hours for a shot at the chili bowls and the fried chicken sandwiches, the flat bean-filled tacos called "foldies" and the cupfuls of stewed collard greens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2016
Most of the knots fixed that morning had loosened under her headcloth and were now cupfuls of soft wool her fingers thrilled to.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
