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Example sentences for "hatful"

Lexicographically close words:
hater; haters; hates; hatest; hateth; hath; hathe; hathen; hati; hating
  1. These were so plentiful that I gathered a hatful for our friends below, and then I lingered for a last look at the boats.

  2. I stood, with the hatful of berries in my hand, like a stiff wax figure in a museum.

  3. And if I took a hatful of gold, I'd be off with it into another country--wouldn't you?

  4. It was half a hatful of bank notes raked up at the hazard table.

  5. Now, governor, I put it to you plump, isn't this hatful enough to make a man beside himself, so as not to stick at a white lie or two?

  6. Lablache was so delighted by this simple and innocent gayety that he avowed he could not be more pleased if she had given him a hatful of diamonds.

  7. So saying he took his hatful of the seed, and where Dick had been ordered to set one bean, Giles buried a dozen; of course the beans were soon out.

  8. And now go out in the garden and pick me a hatful of Brussels sprouts.

  9. Swine, before whom I have cast a hatful of pearls!

  10. I'd give a hatful of louis d'or to see Father Hamilton, for if he throve so marvellously in the flesh as his secretary he must look like the side of St. Eloi.

  11. If you keep on and shoot straight, you're bound to get a hatful of bullets into him somewhere.

  12. I might have a hatful of money if I chose, but I find myself better without it, and my constitution braces up.

  13. It is more to me than a hatful of gold, though nobody else would give a crown for it.

  14. Only last year I caught a large hatful of perch and dace, of which I persuaded Madame to cook some that Juliette would not eat and gave to the cat.

  15. Bromley sprang afoot at the first discharge, but before he could reach the door of the adobe, Ballard came in, carrying a hatful of roughly crumbled brown earth.

  16. Sophia Furnival, with her hatful of money, would not be considered too high for him; and in what respect was Madeline Staveley above Sophia Furnival?

  17. She is a very fine girl, and you are welcome to the hatful of money--if you can get it.

  18. I should have won a little hatful of money if Christopher Sly had come in first--but you know how it was.

  19. I lost a hatful of money over Pancake, at the very moment I thought I had made a fortune.

  20. And Miss Mackarness took the hatful up to Penelope, who sat with her nurse and the cause of all the trouble in a south room overlooking the moat.

  21. Bunting said he would get it, and came back with a hatful of fragments.

  22. He was in a very good temper, however, for he had won what his companions called a hatful of money on the steeple-chase, and he stood to win on other races that were to come off that afternoon.

  23. On the floor every day, and never yet bought a hatful of wheat on his own account.

  24. You'll look upon a hatful of them before the month is out.

  25. Two or three of the boys came forward, and stated that they had been eye witnesses of the transaction, and had seen me break the window, by throwing repeatedly at it with a hatful of stones.

  26. I shall make another hatful of money there, for cockering up the bridesmaids, and that sort of thing; and after that we might rout up old Hotchpot.

  27. He then offered another hatful at the same price.

  28. Eagerly the man gave a hatful of corn for ten bullets and ten charges of powder.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hatful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.