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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 old fellow, quaked and cowered in his chair, and would indeed have given his whole shopful of better concocted medicines than this, to be out of this danger.
From The Dolliver Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
I told her not to bother her head about it, that when we got to New York, or even to Cincinnati or Louisville, I would buy her a whole shopful of dresses.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
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
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
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