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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
Of the doctor so gentle, The other sick boys, And oh! a whole shopful Of beautiful toys!
From London Town by Crane, Thomas
Better than a shopful of toys they were to me!
From Authors and Friends by Fields, Annie
If a cannon had been fired close to her ear, or a shopful of glass had been broken, she could not have been more alarmed.
From The Animal Story Book by Various
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
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