Examples of use of SACKFUL
1. We were offered instead a bulging sackful of mixed measures, with no clear theme running through them – apart from a desire to wrong–foot the Tories.
2. There can be no more sickening sight for Northern Rock‘s investors, employees and customers than Adam Applegarth, the chief executive responsible for the bank‘s downfall, being rewarded with a sackful of cash.
3. How did Judge Alan Berg describe The Jeremy Kyle Show? a) "As pointless as a sackful of broken compasses" b) "A human form of bear–baiting" c) "The best hope for a peaceful solution to the Middle East problem" d) "My pick for the TV Quick Award 2007" 13.
4. The Daily Mail‘s Ben Brogan writes on his blog today that a sackful of his printouts was found in the Commons by a Labour supporter and passed to Downing Street, "with the worst being saved for later". The Backbencher has a feeling that Guido Fawkes won‘t, for once, be seeing any of them.
5. "And I think that they‘ve got a little work to do with the packing and sorting and grading and sizing for the international market because that‘s what the international market expects." Pomegranates in Afghanistan are transported by the sackful along bumpy roads in trucks, which damages the fruit and reduces its shelf life.