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
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
Or try warming up a frozen dinner and turning it out onto a plateful of leafy greens.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2021
On breaks between shifts, groups of three or four staff members would sneak away to the employee break area to inhale a paper plateful of turkey and casserole and a slice of pumpkin pie.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2020
As soon as they ate one plateful, they filled their plates with snow again, and Grandma poured more syrup on it.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
From heaping bowls of mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce to platefuls of sliced turkey and stuffing, a hearty Thanksgiving feast is bound to leave behind extras.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2022
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
Mom said as she served out three platefuls of spaghetti and meatballs.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
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