How To Use Plateful In A Sentence
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The waitress arrived and dumped a steaming plateful in front of Alexis.
KICK BACK
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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
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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
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Steep them for three hours in a plateful of weak kirsch, or maraschino, that is slightly warmed.
The Belgian Cookbook
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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
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I saw a number of substantial platefuls of the casserole being enjoyed.
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Joe demolished an enormous plateful of sausages and chips.
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He demolished two big platefuls of chicken.
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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
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The hungry boys polished off a plateful of ham and then asked for more.
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The dish is a plateful of whole smelts, done in a sweet and salty soy-based sauce, topped with a generous scattering of lemon slices and green onion.
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Now come, you've hardly made a dent in those wonderful sandwiches I made, and there's a plateful of cookies that need to be eaten lest they go to waste.
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My friend I have flown many missions for the navy in a search and rescue capacity, and I must say that I don't think that was nearly as scary as the thoughts of staring down a plateful of tofu moose!!!
Heroes or Villains?
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A plateful of sinful chocolate eclairs sitting on the countertop were trying hard to call my name, flirting with my sweet tooth by offering promises of oozing cream and a sugary chocolate fondant topping.
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A huge plateful like that costs only 50 cents.
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Of course, yesterday I ate five tacos al pastor as well (and a plateful of bacon for breakfast) - my logic being that the government. didn't tell people not to eat pork.
Swine flu at Ground Zero (Mexico City): life in a masked city
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This time I hit the FSB fringe buffet, where I managed not only to down a plateful of sandwiches and assorted foodstuffs in record time, but I also succeeded in escaping the room with a coffee before the meeting began.
Saturday musings
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Here we serve 100 platefuls of choucroute a day.
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Here she slept at night, but during the day she amused herself on a table, where the woman had placed a plateful of water.
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There was a generous plateful of swordfish carpaccio with lemon and rocket to lighten things and, at the heavier end, grilled discs of Majorcan salami sobrasada to spread on walnut toast.
Restaurant review: Aurelia
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It is like trying to get a firm grip on a plateful of pudding.
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If you take the time to win their confidence, the secrets of the Atlas will be unveiled over cups of mint tea or perhaps a plateful of tagine, a stew of vegetables, mutton and herbs cooked in conical earthenware pots on charcoal braziers.
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However, she succeeded in pouring out and carrying into the parlor, without accident, three platefuls of that excellent condiment which formed the frugal supper of the family; but which they ate, I grieve to say, in an orthodox southern fashion, with sugar or treacle, until Mr. Lyon -- greatly horrified thereby -- had instituted his national custom of "supping" porridge with milk.
Mistress and Maid. A Household Story.
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My daily dinner money was nearer 15p, and for that I got a plateful of real food, lovingly produced on the premises by battleaxes in pink hairnets.
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Food is just about my only remaining pleasure up here, and so I dive greedily into vast platefuls of the stuff.
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As I sit over a steaming bowl of harira or a plateful of spicy cod accras and consider the question - and those brilliant young men, that culturally diverse team, who brought this country roaring to their feet in 1998 - I think not.
Jamie Schler: Football, Food and Nationality
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We had hardly ordered before two steaming platefuls arrived.
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The waiter, almost literally staggering under the weight, plumped a huge oval plateful of sizzling ribs in front of Lili.
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Among my favourites, from two platefuls, were pork in black bean sauce, the chilli spare ribs, the char sui in Cantonese sauce and the chicken wings in garlic sauce.
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My daily dinner money was nearer 15p, and for that I got a plateful of real food, lovingly produced on the premises by battleaxes in pink hairnets.
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When corporate executives take to conference calls to spin their employers 'quarterly earnings reports, listeners are usually rewarded with a heaping plateful of word salad.
Faster Forward: Steve Jobs, tech pundit (annotated version)
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Stein is like a plateful of smoked haddock, poached egg and mashed potatoes, a combination that is both unbeatably satisfying and fun.
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It turned out to be a bit of a chicken night for me as the curry was chicken too, but it was a very tasty plateful and the chips were cut like big scallops and were nice and crispy around the edges.
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He was tucking into a huge plateful of pasta.
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She had taken over a plateful of freshly baked cookies.
Fatal Error
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By the time we're eating platefuls of asparagus, the second sign of full-on spring has arrived - elderflower blossoms bursting out all over the elder tree.
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But nobody thinks of the glorious platefuls of fresh vegetables and steaming dishes of frumenty.
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Ever since Salome strutted her stuff for a plateful of chops (those would be the rather bristly chops of John the Baptist), women have recognised their power.
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Dozens of local children had the chance to dig into platefuls of bangers and beans and get a present from Father Christmas at Devizes fire station's Breakfast with Santa on Saturday.
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Why you should skip it: When you know you can have only one plateful, chances are you will pile it sky-high.
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Half a pound o 'boiling beef, an' a penny bone," was Leeby's almost invariable order when she dealt with the flesher, and Jess had always neighbours poorer than herself who got a plateful of the broth.
A Window in Thrums
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They did their best and the gin came at once, but by the time a plateful of spaghetti carbonara and one of linguine alla salmone landed in front of us there were five minutes to go before the doors would be shut.
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``The time you gave me a plateful of your seal flipper curry.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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Nina Almayer came through the curtained doorway followed by an old Malay woman, who busied herself in setting upon the table a plateful of rice and fish, a jar of water, and a bottle half full of genever.
Almayer's Folly
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I dived into the plateful as if I hadn't eaten for a week and soon felt well enough to finish the remaining half glass of my champagne avec cassis.
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A rustling plateful of deep-fried whitebait with anchovies and a red onion dressing screamed out for a smack of chilli, but was still pleasing for all that.
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All they seemed interested in was guzzling platefuls of sausages and going back to the counter for more.
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Everyone in the busy tapas bar I ventured into was tucking into heaped platefuls of pulpo, Galicia's ‘national’ dish, scallops and tasty, but tough-to-open percebes, unique to the rias.
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To see how they live and waste here, it is a wonder the whole city does not 'bankrape, and go out o' sicht '; - flinging platefuls of what they are pleased to denominate' crusts '
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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By the time we're eating platefuls of asparagus, the second sign of full-on spring has arrived - elderflower blossoms bursting out all over the elder tree.
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A whole plateful of spaghetti began to move inside her stomach.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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The daily routine started early in the morning with ablutions followed by a meagre breakfast at eight o'clock then back in the cell until they were served a plateful of dinner at about four o'clock.