armful
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How to use armful in a sentence
Donella Pressley fled with her two young daughters, Cordelia and Elena, and an armful of family pictures just before a branch of the swelling river engulfed her house off Pisgah Drive.
‘They are not slowing down’: The rise of billion-dollar disasters | Brady Dennis | August 4, 2022 | Washington PostOne day, Thompson-Gaines opened her front door to find a woman standing on her porch with an armful of clothes.
The inspiring math of kindness: How one woman turned a 2-day yard sale into a year’s worth of kindness | Theresa Vargas | September 22, 2021 | Washington PostAve screamed, and we both relayed an armful of food back into my van.
One more armful of dead leaves, and the little workers will take the road home.
Child Life In Town And Country | Anatole FranceMrs. Rewins brought up an armful of books which Michael examined dismally one by one.
Sinister Street, vol. 1 | Compton Mackenzie
After bringing an armful of the tea-plant, we made a trip to the moss-patch.
Left on Labrador | Charles Asbury StephensYou wait until I get an armful of rocks and I'll beat some of their heads off!
The Call of the Beaver Patrol | V. T. ShermanThat night, when the mess was sitting around after dinner, Tam appeared with a big armful of cigars.
Tam O' The Scoots | Edgar Wallace
British Dictionary definitions for armful
/ (ˈɑːmfʊl) /
the amount that can be held by one or both arms
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