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
The gold flows in, bubbles up, and that one is full to the top; and then the next is filled, and the next, and so on to the end.
From The Children's Book of London by Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith)
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)
In this part of the river, the stream was full to the top of its banks, and in some places it overflowed them.
From Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi by Optic, Oliver
Mountains of seas swept clean over the bark in their mad race, filling her decks full to the top of the bulwarks, and shaking things generally.
From Voyage of the Liberdade by Slocum, Joshua
