Armful is an English word. Below you'll find 7 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Armful meaning
The amount an arm or arms can hold.
Synonyms of Armful
Using Armful
- The main meaning on this page is: The amount an arm or arms can hold.
- Useful related words include: containerful.
- In the example corpus, armful often appears in combinations such as: an armful, armful of.
Context around Armful
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Armful
- In this selection, "armful" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include an armful of funko and for an armful of various. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "armful" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with armful
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Pete Doherty on Tony Hancock: Very Nearly an Armful. (9 words)
An armful of Funko Pop figures at Arizona Toy Con 2017. (11 words)
Still, the housekeeper knocked on the door of Room 307 at 8:15 with an armful of fresh towels. (19 words)
With Rourke, they’ve played around with the idea of spending your words as if each one is a coin, and holding an armful of props that you drop with every word, so that you feel the impact of each one disappearing. (42 words)
Instagram / kuenstlerbrew The pandemic may have slowed San Antonio's craft beer renaissance, but local breweries are still creating drive-thru and curbside opportunities for beer lovers to swing by and take home an armful of their favorites. (38 words)
He was, like his wife, fond of films, and would often take her from their Ryer Avenue apartment to the nearby movie theater, and would always stop at the adjacent newsstand for an armful of various newspapers. (37 words)
Example sentences (7)
Pete Doherty on Tony Hancock: Very Nearly an Armful.
With Rourke, they’ve played around with the idea of spending your words as if each one is a coin, and holding an armful of props that you drop with every word, so that you feel the impact of each one disappearing.
Instagram / kuenstlerbrew The pandemic may have slowed San Antonio's craft beer renaissance, but local breweries are still creating drive-thru and curbside opportunities for beer lovers to swing by and take home an armful of their favorites.
An armful of Funko Pop figures at Arizona Toy Con 2017.
In person Pugh is smiley and friendly—the type to immediately seize upon your earrings, ply you with pleasant queries about them, and send you off with an armful of compliments.
Still, the housekeeper knocked on the door of Room 307 at 8:15 with an armful of fresh towels.
He was, like his wife, fond of films, and would often take her from their Ryer Avenue apartment to the nearby movie theater, and would always stop at the adjacent newsstand for an armful of various newspapers.
Common combinations with armful
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an armful 7×
- armful of 6×