How to Use bagful in a Sentence

bagful

noun
  • She always has a bagful of stories.
  • Books were being checked out by the bagful; there were lines at the circulation desk.
    Sue Halpern, The New York Review of Books, 18 Apr. 2019
  • Because of this, savvy Southerners freeze bagfuls or preserve the fruit whole or as jam.
    Jill Warren Lucas, charlotteobserver, 8 Aug. 2017
  • In short, crisply readable chapters, Greenblatt limns a bagful of Shakespeare’s tyrants.
    Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
  • Big, sweet onions, bagfuls of juicing carrots, new potatoes and all colors of cauliflower, cabbages and kohlrabi.
    Steve Edwards, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Aug. 2019
  • According to Wong, the actor bought a bagful of items, including records and a few maternity T's, which were the last of the bunch.
    Marianne Garvey, CNN, 23 Oct. 2019
  • The preview later shows daughter Moriah taking her first bite of cotton candy — something most kids her age would have enjoyed by the bagful several times over.
    Laura Hanrahan, Woman's Day, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Now, a bagful of bronze artifacts and tools found at the bottom of the river in the middle of the battlefield suggests some of these warriors traveled from hundreds of kilometers away to fight.
    Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The volunteers worked with the Audubon Society, removing the mothballs by hand and properly discarding bagfuls of the product, typically used as an in-home pesticide.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026

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