acreful
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An unspecified but very large amount.
Example Sentences
- "The California sun was doing what the Chamber of Commerce says it always does; bees were buzzing; larks were bugling; orange marigolds were blooming by the acreful."
- "As pressures grow for increased Industrial, recreational and urban use of water, agriculture will have to justify every acreful of water it uses."
- "It does not cry for proof, what even one burning spark can accomplish in acrefuls of stubble."
- "...three insectivorous fledgelings, who no sooner have they swallowed a mosquito whole are they clamoring for the whole swarm, who no sooner have they swallowed a worm than are they clamoring for an acreful, reminding us not a little already in certain respects of our Palafox, their presumptive father."
- "Also the grant brought troubles by the acreful."
- "Flowers were all very well and good in their place, growing in the wild, or even a few in a vase on a lady's boudoir table, but when they took over the hall in acresful, it was too much."