sackful
IPA: sˈækfʌɫ
noun
- The amount a sack will contain.
- (figuratively) A large number or amount (of something).
adjective
- (obsolete) Intent on plunder.
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Examples of "sackful" in Sentences
- He's left the museum, started his own company, and is making money by the sackful.
- Why should he grow more when he can just sell me the old sackful over and over again?
- Money could be made out of them, and he would wait and take a sackful of it into the South Seas.
- Saxon got a sackful of the fish, and was compelled to make two trips in order to carry them home, where she salted them down in a wooden washtubs.
- Bobby Moore, leader of the celebrated band who also died tragically early, had his sackful of memories sold by his first wife, Tina, to his beloved West Ham.
- If I was down to one rifle it would be due to a situation beyond my control so I would hang onto my Ruger 10/22 plus a sackful of 30 shot magazines to go with several bricks of ammo.
- If I buy a sackful of potatoes from a farmer, that may well incentivize him to plant some more, especially if I've made a standing offer to pay him for a new sack (like the copyright law does).
- Five minutes into Double Agent – the Eddie Chapman Story BBC2 our bespectacled presenter Ben McIntyre has leapt from the cargo door of a Nazi plane, blown open a locked safe and done a runner in the London underground clutching a sackful of stolen banknotes.
- And one more southern rock choice in the soundtrack, I was going to go home and invent a time machine, go back in time, and sneak a sackful of rabid weasels onto Skynyrd's plane so I'd know that during the entire crash, they were ALSO being tormented by the weasel bites.
- Nelson Mandela must occasionally wonder if his real birthplace is not actually somewhere in west central Scotland as the postman brings the puzzled old freedom fighter yet another sackful of certificates, baubles and doctorates from right honourable and worshipful baillies, provosts and presiding officers.