There is a plateful of P's for you at any rate, Tom.
Next morning, before any of us were up, a whole plateful of cards were handed to us, and during the forenoon these were followed by as many invitations to dinner.
Adrian sprinkled sugar and poured cream over a plateful of big red strawberries.
Come, cheer up, goodman Dull," Adrian exhorted him, selecting the truffled portions from a plateful of gallantine.
And with this the devil put a plateful of gold coins into the prince's bag.
They were all not a little astonished at hearing a serpent talk; and the woman ladled out a plateful of soup and placed it under the bench.
Nina Almayer came through the curtained doorway followed by an old Malay woman, who busied herself in setting upon the table a plateful of rice and fish, a jar of water, and a bottle half full of genever.
In his mind's eye he saw the rich prize in his grasp; and, with tin spoon in his hand, he was forgetting the plateful of rice before him in the fanciful arrangement of some splendid banquet to take place on his arrival in Amsterdam.
You want to lay hold of a little bit merely, but the strips of cabbage-leaf are twisted one within the other, and hang together in spite of you, so that withoutintending it you get hold of a whole plateful at once.
Try, by way of experiment, to carry your spoon to your mouth without putting your thumb to it, and you will see what a long time it will take you to get through a poor little plateful of broth.
As I said just now, you will find you have got hold of a plateful all at once.
And this explains why a small slice of meat nourishes you more than a wholeplateful of salad.
I thought he would never stop; plateful followed plateful in an apparently endless endeavor to sate the insatiable.
No little time was expended in bustling preparations, before a flask of red wine, some coarse bread, a dish of fried eggs and a plateful of cold sausage were placed before us upon the rough oak table, well scored with knife-cuts.
Kongstrup was lying on the sofa reading a magazine, and on the table beside him stood a pile of old magazines and a plateful of little cakes.
The more buttered toast the children ate the better pleased was Nurse; and she brought plateful after plateful to the table, till even Sydney's appetite was appeased, and he felt the time had come for a little conversation.
Every day we kill a turkey and pigeons on purpose for him, I make a compote with my own hands, and he eats a plateful of broth and a bit of meat the size of a finger and gets up from the table.
In our town there was a merchant who, before he died, ordered a plateful of honey and ate up all his money and lottery tickets with the honey, so that no one might get the benefit of it.
In the evening, when we were drinking tea, the cook put on the table a plateful of gooseberries.
Not one person in a hundred is anything but a monstrous spectacle in front of a plateful of stewed tripe.
But, as I said before, we are, happily, so busy with our own plateful at the time that we have usually no leisure to regard their stuffing.
A plateful for each of the three meals should be placed in the refrigerator ready for use.
Have a heaping plateful of ochra cut up; put that in the pan and let it wilt a few minutes (you must stir it), then add three or four tomatoes cut up.
The sandwiches were rebelliously hunted up--a plateful was supplied.
Some minutes later he began in the same absent-minded manner on a huge plateful of bacon, with a pot of coffee in keeping, and was eating in silence when the stillness of the sunshine was broken by the sound of a horse's hoofs.
The two dogs heard and must have known that they were being called to dinner, for they came with a rush, each one trying to see which would be the first to reach Bunny with the plateful of good food.
When the meal was over Mrs. Brown gathered up a big plateful of scraps from the table, and gave it to Bunny to feed Dix and Splash.
Only one plateful of food such as this must, of a surety, make his dear mother strong and well once more.
He was asked to sit upon the sofa, and in so doing upset the plateful of salad upon the floor.
An old sofa served as a seat, and on it were a pair of lasts, a bit of a French newspaper, and a plateful of small onions and lettuce, which could not find a place on the little table.
Plateful after plateful of stewed meat and potatoes, steaming and savoury, disappeared.
With Finny revealing herself in this wonderful new light, and Kit sitting beside her in the comfortable firelight and sharing her plateful of stewed pears, the problem was more than she could solve for herself.
One rushed at her with the biscuits, another with a glass of milk, and a third with a plateful of bread and jam.
They say all the English are like that"; and he instructed Nikola to bring me a glass of slivovitz and a plateful of jam.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plateful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
