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fistful
[ fist-fool ]
noun
- a handful:
a fistful of pennies.
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A fistful of dollars in his pocket, Mike—who once had a family himself, now long gone—heads across the border.
You can add a pinch of this and a fistful of that when cooking, but accurate measuring is a must for baking cakes, bread, pastries, and pies.
Before marching into the home store with a fistful of cash, think about where you want to mount it and how you’ll use it.
Baric was a top expert in coronaviruses, with hundreds of papers to his credit, and Shi, along with her team at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, had been discovering them by the fistful in bat caves.
The NCAA has a fistful of colossal sponsorship and media deals.
Brown continued sauntering along, still holding a fistful of cigarillos on each hand.
The models walked with a fistful of red roses, tenderly tossing them onto the bed-bound boys as they turned a corner.
As he stood at the defense table with a fistful of papers, he gave his baggy red pants a tug to keep them up.
And he reached his hand inside the sack on his back, and pulled out a fistful of bright gold pennies—oh, such a lot of them!
Justin handed a fistful of shells to the Factor, then proceeded unconcernedly to the water's edge.
The door opened and Bart grabbed a fistful of bed-ticking as two Lhari came into the room.
“A mistake,” said Aunt Jessica, shaking the dirt vigorously from a fistful of sorrel.
The General picked up a fistful of the documents which had cost the life of Fernando Rivas.
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