How to Use bagful in a Sentence

bagful

noun
  • She always has a bagful of stories.
  • Go heavy on the garnishes: Slice a bagful of lemons into wheels and wedges and grab a few bunches of fresh herbs.
    Marian Bull, GQ, 27 June 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • In short, crisply readable chapters, Greenblatt limns a bagful of Shakespeare’s tyrants.
    Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
  • Several farms sold freshly picked peaches by the bagful.
    Dennis Hohenberger, Courant Community, 23 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Taralli (breadsticks) were stored by the gallon bagful in her oversized GE freezer in her house or in the annex freezer, a 60 year-old monster that's probably still chugging away in the back pantry, too heavy to bother moving.
    Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit, 26 Apr. 2017
  • 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

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