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Example sentences for "potful"

Lexicographically close words:
potestas; potestate; potestatem; potestatis; poteva; poth; pothecary; potheen; pother; potherb
  1. I have had no more than a dish of mush and a little potful of fat, and I am thinking over whether I ought not to eat you as well," said she, and she seized the man and ate him up.

  2. I have had no more than a dish of mush and a little potful of fat and the man in the house, and I'm thinking over whether I ought not to eat you as well," said she, and she seized the woman and ate her up.

  3. When they cooked a dish of mush or a potful of porridge that was to do for all six of them, the child swallowed it all by himself.

  4. The woman offered her a dish of mush and a little potful of fat.

  5. The grave-digger's wife found it a long way off from the spot, and boiled a potful of potatoes over it.

  6. There is a good fire in the chimney, the whole window is cheery and red; the stout Mir'l is probably skimming a large potful of potatoes, and she always gives him one.

  7. Hitapwakan ug íhì ang nangharána, The serenaders got splashed with a potful of urine.

  8. The oxide of lead existing in certain parts of a potful of glass in greater proportion than in other parts, increases the density unequally in the same mass, so that the adjoining strata are often very different in this respect.

  9. To render a potful of glass homogeneous by agitation, is a more difficult task, as an iron rod would discolour it, and a copper rod would be apt to melt.

  10. For I was never worth a potful a' worts sithen I was born.

  11. Weigh a potful of hard soil and a potful of lowland soil, or muck, after each has been thoroughly dried.

  12. A lot of potatoes about the size of walnuts, boiled and peeled and added to a potful of salmon, made a savory stew that all seemed to relish.

  13. The result of this experiment was a bright, clear amber-colored, rank-smelling liquor which I did not taste, but my suffering companion drank the whole potful and praised it.

  14. Mr. Pym had gone out, she added, after drinking a potful of strong tea.

  15. He bade me make him a big potful of strong tea--which I did at once, having the kettle on the fire.

  16. Oh, nothing much; only a king was out there in the road, and wanted to know if she would sell the apple yonder for a potful of gold.

  17. So he called one of the servants to him, and told him to go and ask whether it could be bought for a potful of gold.

  18. We got a fine potful of cabbage-tree sprouts, which eat like asparagus.

  19. At this camp we had a potful of cabbage-tree sprouts, and we ate a large quantity of it with lime juice which made it resemble rhubarb in taste.

  20. Last night we had a potful of the young wood of the cabbage palm, which tasted like asparagus.

  21. I was tired, and, to tell the truth, had far more desire for our sleeping-bag and a good potful of meat.

  22. A good potful of meat was prepared, and our appetite was ravenous.


  23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "potful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    mint; pile; pot; wad