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Example sentences for "barrowful"

Lexicographically close words:
barrio; barrister; barristers; barroom; barrooms; barrows; barrs; bars; bartender; bartenders
  1. More by token Chirsty Lamby had seen him rolling home a barrowful of firewood early in the morning, her having risen to hold cold water in her mouth, being down with the toothache.

  2. A garden bed would be too good for that barrowful of filth!

  3. It was not of a barrowful of bricks and shovelful of mortar that he had been dreaming, but of lancet windows and stone mouldings; of polished oak rafters within, and of high gables and red tiles without.

  4. If it was in bad repair, Davis should see to it; a man with a barrowful of bricks and a shovelful of mortar should be sent down.

  5. The rule should be to spread every wheel-barrowful of manure as soon as it is put on the heap.

  6. Many a cart-load or wheel-barrowful of material will be deposited that would otherwise be allowed to run to waste.

  7. Strange figures began to emerge from the woods, a dumb man with a barrowful of roots for firewood, several women in men's coats, one smoking a cutty-pipe.

  8. Rob did not recognise a distinguished poet in a little stout man who was looking pensively at a barrowful of walnuts, and he was mistaken in thinking that the bearded gentleman who held his head so high must be somebody in particular.


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