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thimbleful
[ thim-buhl-fool ]
noun
- the amount that a thimble will hold.
- a small quantity, especially of liquid.
thimbleful
/ 藞胃瑟尘产蓹濒藢蹿蕣濒 /
noun
- a very small amount, esp of a liquid
Spelling Note
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of thimbleful1
Example Sentences
鈥淲e are losing older drinkers by the bucketful, but only gaining new ones by the thimbleful,鈥 Mr. Menezes was quoted as saying in 1999 in The Scotsman newspaper.
Made with just a handful of actors and a thimbleful of cash, Patrick Rea鈥檚 鈥淭hey Wait in the Dark鈥 is a gruesome ghost story that plays with our expectations.
Gil亚洲网紅露点h's plan had sounded good, but how could we cure an entire city with only a thimbleful of Mo's Promise?
I remember throwing mosquito dunks into storm drains and desperately draining every thimbleful of standing water, as well as having to douse myself in repellent just to go outside and pick up the paper.
Microbiologists began by isolating the microbial DNA in a thimbleful of soil to see what genes and species were in the sample.
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