Spelling
See -ful.
Etymology
Origin of shopful
Example Sentences
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The jolt splintered the ice and sent glass-covered limbs clattering to earth like a shopful of shattering crystal.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
The painter was so touched by this first complaint that he ordered a shopful of toys to be brought to the studio the following day.
From Strong as Death by Maupassant, Guy de
Here she sat, in the little enclosure of this upper room above a shopful of strange Delikatessen, securely adrift.
From Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 by Richardson, Dorothy Miller
I'm a British sailor, Sir; I come to your God-forsaken parish on a Government job, and I happen on a whole shopful of ancient remains.
From News from the Duchy by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
Better than a shopful of toys they were to me!
From Authors and Friends by Fields, Annie
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