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(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
a batch of letters
a slew of journalists
a lot of money
a wad of money
it must have cost plenty
a deal of trouble
he made a mint on the stock market - as many or as much as a hat will hold
How To Use hatful In A Sentence
- You just can't let a little thing like his being already dead get in the way of a good, irrational hatful desire to kill! Tom Cruise is a LOT OLDER than I thought
- Silsden missed a hatful of chances as Bulldogs levelled the match.
- We gathered a hatful of mushrooms, those toothsome "plants in masquerade," which grow in great perfection in this valley. Janey Canuck in the West
- They continue to make and miss a hatful of chances and City will punish them too tomorrow. The Sun
- It will be very surprising indeed if he does not take a hatful of wickets. The Sun
- Win a hatful of medals in Lucerne in three weeks and then Olympic hype can begin. Times, Sunday Times
- The second half failed to produce the hatful of goals the first period provided. Times, Sunday Times
- Wednesday had a hatful of early chances but blew the lot. The Sun
- She was quite upset at my refusal to part with the note; and we haggled for a quarter of an hour about whether she would give me, roughly, sixteen shillingsworth of Turkish silver for a piece of worthless paper, or whether she would accept five piastres Egyptian in exchange for a hatful of limes. With Our Army in Palestine
- Town can still sneak the second automatic spot if results go their way and they score a hatful against Exeter. The Sun
