Meaning of carpetful | Babel Free

Definitions

The amount that fills a carpet.

Examples

“First stop, France, where Jean Paul has his trick white mice; Lady Green Satin and her maid, Rosette, perform for the carpetful of absorbed youngsters; […]”

“Gather ’round, Children, for the weekly story hour Thursday at 2:30. Last week there were two carpetsful of listeners.”

“Babies, like hamsters, develop supernatural physical abilities the minute an adult leaves the room. They have been known to disappear under furniture, pull over tables, lamps and bookcases and eat entire carpetsful of crumbs, dust, thimbles, books and valuable items that have been lost for generations.”

“All we know is that Duke Bhereu has died, the king and Baron Thomdor linger near death despite wagonloads of priests and winged carpetfuls of war wizards laboring night and day, […]”

“Walter, Shaw, Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer… all that would be needed for several spangled carpetsful of best actor gongs would be, say, Anna Paquin and Sophie Okonedo.”

“The first air-raiders loosed large carpetfuls of hurtling rocks that strafed men on the ground, dislocating their shoulders, shattering 150 large wooden shields, and pulverizing brows.”

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