thermosful
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The amount necessary to fill a thermos flask.
Example Sentences
- "When, her face green, Louise wailed to him: 'This takes all the gilt off the gingerbread!' he not only consoled her with words, but, a practical man, provided thermosfuls of soup for her to take to work, homemade vegetable soup which soothed her ominously lurching stomach."
- "The advance of the sakura is tracked, as Will Ferguson puts it, 'with a seriousness usually reserved for armies on the march', and its arrival in a region is celebrated with extempore haiku, and thermosfuls of saké."
- "Finally he settles on a location in the basement of the Hunter College library, among books in French that don't tempt him away from the task at hand. He drinks many thermosfuls of coffee."
- "I let him steer me up to Dolores Park, stopping at the Turk's to get a cup to go and a thermosful for after that. We perched on a bench and Liam waited patiently while I drank my first cup and poured myself a second one."