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
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
Now fill the crust full to the top.
From The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by Gillette, F. L. (Fanny Lemira)
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
It was a little urn of jade and ivory, and it was full to the top of dried poems written on rose-leaves.
From The Garden of the Plynck by Minard, Florence
