Bowl full

"Bowl full" in a Sentence (12 examples)

Great bowl fulls of wild tumbling hills, blue mountains in the distance and a silvery stream—the Umzimkulu—winding in and out among the canyons.

Coffee and tea, bowls full, were served at every meal.

Out in the Yard he had rosebushes set out. No one was allowed to touch them, but great bowls full were picked, by his orders, daily and placed in the barren wards and in the dining room and in the nurses’ quarters.

He ate bowls full of crackers.

Moreover, we doubt that the statement that the defendant was ultimately trying to place before the jury — “[she] smoked a couple of bowl fulls” — would be admissible as a statement against Kibbe’s penal interest.

There, I ate several bowls full of white rice.

During her recitation, they ate bowls full of curried chicken stew, the entire chicken, sans guts, brains and feathers, tossed in the pot for twelve hours, bones still to be picked out as they turned up in one’s spoon.

So they ate bowls full of spaghetti covered with cheese and tomato sauce, craning their necks skyward and stuffing their mouths with the long strands.

Around noon, they sat down at a little table and ate bowls full of steaming oyster stew.

Having opened his presents Chiang sat down with the family and ate bowls full of longevity noodles.

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But there is an additional nuance of logic: these social drinkers (or solitary drinkers at home in the afternoon) drink wine in bowls. Even if the idea is not excess to the point of intoxication, the image of the bowl at least adds the twist of a high level of consumption. The overall logic of the portrait that Amos paints is that of self-indulgence on a grand scale, made possible by the affluence of the people involved. Wine by the bowl fulls fits that logic.

Peel and slice your potato – I use a mandolin for slices as thin as a credit card. Gently wash the slices in a couple of bowl fulls of water until the water is clear.

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