Meaning of roadful | Babel Free

Definitions

Enough to fill a road.

Examples

“Now, in those suburbs where cheap trains and cheap trams are having most influence, you may see farms being covered with houses, not by pairs or by half-dozens, but by roadsful and by hundreds.”

“The skidder moves about four times a day, cleaning up eight roadsful of logs.”

“The English, in particular, appear to enjoy consuming Minis by roadfuls and Mediterranean sun by the thermful.”

“One could visualize the bursting of mailbags and the roadfuls of snarled trucks hard by the sagging loading docks.”

“Turning at the café, I was held up by a roadful of cows, changing pasture at a pace that would not excite anyone’s milk.”

“By getting the household in the habit of leaving “outside shoes” in the basement, by the back door, or other main point of entry, we save ourselves the hassle of chasing down and cleaning up a roadful of dirt.”

“I saw death winkle life from shells, dive on cradle, burrow and bed, strafe roadfuls of refugees on the run from their cold bread-ovens, their blood-spattered streets.”

“In the black and white, smudgy pages of the Daily Aftab and Srinagar Times and a new paper ominously called The Daily Toll, I saw roadfuls of azadi-crying people on the streets;[…].”

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