[ US /ˈmaʊθˌfʊɫ/ ]
[ UK /mˈa‍ʊθfə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quantity that can be held in the mouth
  2. a small amount eaten or drunk
    take a taste--you'll like it
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How To Use mouthful In A Sentence

  • Then you start to tuck into your breakfast but have to give in after two or three mouthfuls because the pain of chewing and then swallowing the food becomes unbearable.
  • Don't be fooled by English English," advised Columbia: "the accent is like a mouthful of pudding, and when they mean to say the weather is bad they say it is 'nawsty;' they call their rubbers 'galoshes,' their dépôts 'stations,' and when they start on a journey they get their Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885
  • Lengthy mouthfuls of Latin can be off-putting and difficult to remember for many.
  • It is next to impossible for a fruit bat to avoid the grit, which adheres to the sticky fruit it eats as well as to the animal itself; even as a bat grooms itself, it gets a mouthful of the ash.
  • There is yet another fiber network, called a mouthful SEA-ME-WE-4, is being constructed to serve the booming Asian demand for bandwidth. Yet another fiber network
  • Korina swallowed a mouthful of food and looked over at Cat as she sat down on the couch next to Matthew.
  • It's not going to be funny when someone who can't have nut products gets a mouthful of the wrong food and goes into shock.
  • Some of our friends must be burning for a mouthful, poor dears; the wounded flesh is drouthy. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
  • He laughed, swallowing a mucky mouthful. The Times Literary Supplement
  • She dumped the toys proudly on the kitchen table before taking her seat and another slurpy mouthful of cereal. Law of Attraction
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