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[ UK /plˈe‍ɪtfə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quantity contained in a plate

How To Use plateful In A Sentence

  • The waitress arrived and dumped a steaming plateful in front of Alexis. KICK BACK
  • Eat the whole plateful if you like -- they total about 400 calories. Suzanne O'Malley: Day Five: Super Bowl XLVI Guilt-Free Cauliflower Breadsticks and Pizza
  • For the same $50 you can see a dozen museums in Little Rock and still have money left over for a plateful of tamales smothered with chili at Doe's Eat Place, Bill Clinton's favorite haunt. Pam Grout: Doing It On The Cheap In Little Rock
  • Steep them for three hours in a plateful of weak kirsch, or maraschino, that is slightly warmed. The Belgian Cookbook
  • He doled out a plateful to Jo, who looked at it for several minutes and then suddenly leapt from her chair and ran out of the room. TEN STEPS TO HAPPINESS
  • I saw a number of substantial platefuls of the casserole being enjoyed.
  • Joe demolished an enormous plateful of sausages and chips.
  • He demolished two big platefuls of chicken.
  • All my co-workers, I bet, have sat at these tables at night, ordering platefuls of éclairs and perhaps even glasses of the cognac and champagne whose golden labels gleam behind the counter. A Mountain of Crumbs
  • The hungry boys polished off a plateful of ham and then asked for more.
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