Sentence examples for teaspoonful from inspiring English sources

'teaspoonful' is a correct and commonly used word in written English
It refers to the amount of something that can fit into a teaspoon. You can use 'teaspoonful' when talking about measurements or quantities of ingredients in cooking or baking recipes. For example, "Add one teaspoonful of salt to the boiling water." You can also use 'teaspoonful' when discussing medication dosages. For example, "The recommended dosage for children is one teaspoonful of the medicine every six hours." 'Teaspoonful' can also be used in a more general sense to indicate a small amount of something. For example, "She added a teaspoonful of love to every dish she cooked."

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teaspoonful

noun

A unit of capacity equal to the amount a teaspoon can hold which is taken approximately as 5ml.

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(Check the pack, but you'll probably need about a teaspoonful in place of two teaspoons of dried).

The critics were all but silenced when the New Yorker declared in 1933 that Rockefeller Centre was "beautiful" and added that "if Mr Rockefeller will send us over a level teaspoonful of strained dirt, we will eat it publicly".

In fact, the secret of his mellifluousness was a teaspoonful of Worcester sauce.

A teaspoonful of this extraordinarily dense material would weigh 50 billion tons on Earth.

* Honey is said to contain anti-oxidants and enzymes that boost health and is used by naturopaths to help hay-fever sufferers in the belief that a daily teaspoonful will create a tolerance to local pollen, but the claims are unproven.

It didn't seem to matter how small a piece I tried to cleave – a teaspoonful, a mustardspoonful, a molecule – the result was always pretty substantial.

For anti-inflammatory effects, stir a teaspoonful into 50ml of water and drink twice daily.

Last week, a London GP who underwent stomach surgery earlier this year told The Independent on Sunday about how hard it is: the fear, the risk, the unending deprivation, the desperate food envy, the pain caused by eating just a teaspoonful over the maximum one cup a day.

Dr. Vail will be 95 in August, and told us that he would not be surprised if the secret of his longevity lay in the fact that for the past 50 years he has taken a teaspoonful of phosphate of soda every morning.

Then she put in half a teaspoonful of sugar.

During prohibition Jack & Charlie paid less graft than any other speakeasy in town, because no agent or detective ever got a teaspoonful of evidence against them.

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