cupful
Example Sentences
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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
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
Once he woke and asked again for water; I gave him a cupful.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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