How To Use basinful In A Sentence
- What lawns deserve is grey water, that basinful of (cooled) soapy washing-up water, the sluiced out teapot, the diverted bathwater. Times, Sunday Times
- What lawns deserve is grey water, that basinful of (cooled) soapy washing-up water, the sluiced out teapot, the diverted bathwater. Times, Sunday Times
- Private houses generally contributed a halfpenny a week, and farmers gave a basinful or a nogin of flour.
- Washcloth draped over the neck, basinful of toiletry items in hand, perhaps shod in wooden clogs, many Japanese ritually visit a public bathhouse, at whose entrance hangs a curtain decorated with a design of steam vapor.
- But first, the poor thing must endure violent convulsions: ‘In great heaving waves the old hero would vomit basinfuls of gruelly white flocculent matter, the color of soap in hard water.’
- a basinful of water
- We often went down on a Sunday to scoop up basinfuls of capelin when they washed ashore.
- `Frankly," said Jeremy, `we had a basinful of that in Munich and I'd welcome a change. OUT OF THE ASHES
- Two quart basinfuls were a common allowance - and at least half-a-dozen exceptionally long and narrow lads were pointed out to me as having emptied four basins.
- Huge basinfuls of the stuff wrapped in fresh banana leaves, were eaten with some fresh, hot palm oil stew.
