Sentence examples for glassful from inspiring English sources

Accordingly, bird flowers produce nectar copiously a thimbleful in each flower of the coral tree, for example, and as much as a liqueur glassful in flowers of the spear lily (Doryanthus).

When aspiration does occur, the volume of fluid entering the lungs rarely exceeds a glassful; the lungs "fill with water" chiefly because of an abnormal accumulation of body fluids (pulmonary edema) that is a secondary complication of oxygen deprivation.

The amber spirit has been given a 100,000 rating on the Scoville scale (the rating system devised by Wilbur Scoville in 1912 for spicy food and drink), which makes a glassful the equivalent of eating a handful of scotch bonnets.

Pour sauvignon blanc from the Loire Valley and you have a glassful of tart fruit and bright, mouthwatering acidity -- a summertime refresher.

(With so many glories of the garden in this concoction, surely Wordsworth would have joined Keats in a glassful).

A hundred years before Pushkin described ecstasy as "a glassful of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth," the demands of the sugar economy had ripped apart African communities and forced slaves across the Atlantic to work sugar cane plantations.

The pitchers, which yield roughly six glassfuls, will cost $36.

It is to live fully by spending freely the little money one does have on pleasure, on beedis and boiled eggs and glassfuls of moonshine.

2,400 metro / bus / Ferris-wheel rides, 2,400 sprigs of dill / parsley from a street vender, 2,400 bubliks (a fresh-fried Russian bagel of sorts), 2,400 table-tennis balls, 2,400 tins of mint tooth powder, 2,400 glassfuls of sunflower seeds from a street vender.

The juice was pricey and perhaps unsuited to a period of deprivation, but my plan was to consume it in tiny glassfuls and then reuse the containers to store water, or maybe even gas.

I don't know anybody who gives alcohol to 5-year-olds like Dexter, but I have friends who follow the European custom of introducing their children to small glassfuls of wine at some point after their age hits double digits.