fistful

How to use fistful in a sentence

• I squeezed three or four fistfuls of those pulped tormentors through my fingers and felt appreciably less depressed.

  Down the Yellowstone | Lewis R. Freeman

• They crammed fistfuls of food into their mouths and gulped the whole fistfuls almost without chewing.

  The Wolf Cub | Patrick Casey

• Carelessly he dropped the heavy fistfuls of dollars into the side pocket of his coat.

  Dust of the Desert | Robert Welles Ritchie

• Hogey gripped fistfuls of the dry sand and cursed between his teeth, while his eyes wandered over the sky.

  The Hoofer | Walter M. Miller

• When I turned him up, his clenched claws held fistfuls of possum hair.

  Wild Life Near Home | Dallas Lore Sharp