How to Use armful in a Sentence

armful

noun
  • And no one needs a movie that leaves them with an armful of air.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The man left the store with an armful of clothes without paying.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Drop off a casserole or an armful of groceries.
    — Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Merighi would leave with armfuls of notes, his eyes opened to how Capello saw the game.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 2 June 2026
  • Grab armfuls of dahlias, zinnias, asters, and strawflowers to share with friends.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Yet another ran from the store with an armful of shoes and clothing.
    — Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Holding a bottle of wine and an armful of kiddie presents.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 2 Oct. 2025
  • One of them, heavyset, with an armful of tattoos, did twenty-nine years.
    — Charlayne Hunter-Gault, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2020
  • The hit causes the mail carrier to drop an armful of mail onto the street.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2024
  • This is the store where Eleven goes and steals an armful of frozen Eggo waffles.
    — Tainaya Nash, House Beautiful, 3 July 2019
  • Her mother gave her $50 and Barton left with an armful of finds.
    — J.m. Banks march 16, Kansas City Star, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The career lady struggled toward us with an armful of binders.
    — Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Stop by and ask for an armful of boughs to take home, then use a heavy-duty floral wire to fix them together.
    — Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Just pick up an armful of d'Anjou, bartlett, or comice pears, and let your imagination run wild.
    — Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit, 5 Jan. 2017
  • Debbie Buckley gathered an armful of bags brimming with food and packed them in her car.
    — Max Londberg, Cincinnati.com, 20 Mar. 2020
  • From a shelf in her pantry, Ingrid retrieved a bouquet of white roses and an armful of tea lights.
    — Ralph Blumenthal, New York Times, 22 June 2016
  • That decision proved fruitful, as the Taylors went home with armfuls of items.
    — Sue Ellen Ross, Post-Tribune, 25 May 2018
  • Researchers began by buying armfuls of 65-cent red bricks at a big-box hardware store.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Wander the city block-sized shop, snap a selfie of the iconic sign, and turn your reading list into an armful of books.
    — Laura Studarus, Marie Claire, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Criminals know that gun stores can be easy targets to obtain armfuls of firearms in a matter of minutes.
    — Fortune, 19 Jan. 2018
  • The Queen of Rosaria, Mya Brazile, held an armful of flowers and posed in her tiara.
    — oregonlive.com, 26 June 2019
  • That would be quite a deficit, one that can’t be made up by simply lingering when holding an armful of toilet paper.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The pursuit of both loves has resulted in an armful of Grammys and Junos.
    — Marisa Arbona-Ruiz, NBC News, 17 May 2017
  • One day, Thompson-Gaines opened her front door to find a woman standing on her porch with an armful of clothes.
    — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2021
  • In the store, just before closing, residents juggled armfuls of food, soda and beer.
    — USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2017
  • The man then hoisted himself over the counter and tried to gather an armful of firearms from a rack on the wall, but the guns were attached to a cable.
    — Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2023
  • None of the white history advocates have shown up to the protests with armfuls of history books and pamphlets.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 16 May 2017
  • On block after block, people were loading cars with armfuls of boxes, suitcases and framed pictures and clothes.
    — Kurtis Alexander, SFChronicle.com, 26 Oct. 2019
  • Trying to steer a path between their love of bread and beating the virus, some in France are now buying baguettes by the armful and freezing them.
    — John Leicester, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Gabi came back to the hotel with two armfuls of shopping bags, including one filled with shoes from Jimmy Choo.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2023

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