BRIMFUL in a Sentence

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But he had not taken into account the ocean of kindliness brimming over in the heart of Stepan Arkadyevitch.

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 Meanings and Examples of BRIMFUL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
brimful
 a.  full to the brim; completely full; ready to overflow
Classic Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  He was so brimful of exultation that he could hardly hold himself when the old lady came back and stood above the wreck discharging lightnings of wrath from over her spectacles.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  The tale was long, but brimful of interest.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
3  He was afraid of sullying what his soul was brimful of.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 10
4  Their waste-paper baskets 'd be fairly brimming, and papers falling over on the floor.'
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
5  He met Gerty Farish's brimming gaze.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
6  Receiving the brimming pewter, and turning to the harpooneers, he ordered them to produce their weapons.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck.
7  Her eyes were brimming with tears.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XV
8  Her letter was brilliant and brimming with cheerfulness.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXVI
9  It was as though her nature were so brimming over with something that against her will it showed itself now in the flash of her eyes, and now in her smile.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 18
10  But he had not taken into account the ocean of kindliness brimming over in the heart of Stepan Arkadyevitch.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 8
11  His teachers complained that he would not learn, while his soul was brimming over with thirst for knowledge.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 27
12  In the innocence of her brave affection, and the brimming up of her old devoted spirit, the once deserted girl shone like a beautiful light upon the darkness of the other.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
13  Wine rosy bright the brimming goblets crown'd.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
14  He observed that her eyes were brimming with tears.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 6 Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter
15  They said: pick, pack, pock, puck: little drops of water in a fountain slowly falling in the brimming bowl.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence:
1  He was so brimful of exultation that he could hardly hold himself.
2  She was brimful of energy and enthusiasm.
3  Davi was born without fully developed limbs but he's not been discouraged, despite the haphazard nature of facilities in Brazil; "Sport is my life because without sport I'm not Davi, " he said, brimming with confidence.
4  Rochester's eyes that they overflow like two cups filled above the brim: have you never remarked that?
5  She shut her book and slowly looked up; her hat brim partially shaded her face, yet I could see, as she raised it, that it was a strange one.
6  Better spare at brim than at bottom.
7  The glass was full to the brim.