Wondering how to use Bellyful in a sentence? Below are 3 example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as overabundance or overmuch.
Bellyful in a sentence
Bellyful meaning
- Enough to fill one's belly; a large portion of food eaten.
- An undesirably large quantity of something.
Synonyms of Bellyful
Using Bellyful
- The main meaning on this page is: Enough to fill one's belly; a large portion of food eaten. | An undesirably large quantity of something.
- Useful related words include: overabundance, overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance.
- In the example corpus, bellyful often appears in combinations such as: bellyful of.
Context around Bellyful
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 0 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bellyful
- In this selection, "bellyful" 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 more than bellyful of pounded and up a bellyful of beer. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bellyful" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bellyful
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
With nothing more than bellyful of pounded yam to show for attendance, I stopped after about a dozen. (18 words)
On any other Saturday morning, the preteen kids would be still in their pajamas with a bellyful of pancakes. (19 words)
She was not very big but her motherly appearance belied a 'No Messin' attitude to any inebriated customers who staggered through the doors late on a Saturday evening looking for a bagful of fish ‘n’ chips to soak up a bellyful of beer. (43 words)
She was not very big but her motherly appearance belied a 'No Messin' attitude to any inebriated customers who staggered through the doors late on a Saturday evening looking for a bagful of fish ‘n’ chips to soak up a bellyful of beer. (43 words)
On any other Saturday morning, the preteen kids would be still in their pajamas with a bellyful of pancakes. (19 words)
With nothing more than bellyful of pounded yam to show for attendance, I stopped after about a dozen. (18 words)
Example sentences (3)
She was not very big but her motherly appearance belied a 'No Messin' attitude to any inebriated customers who staggered through the doors late on a Saturday evening looking for a bagful of fish ‘n’ chips to soak up a bellyful of beer.
With nothing more than bellyful of pounded yam to show for attendance, I stopped after about a dozen.
On any other Saturday morning, the preteen kids would be still in their pajamas with a bellyful of pancakes.
Common combinations with bellyful
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- bellyful of 3×