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  • adverb rare In a manner that fills.

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Examples

  • This is the telltale point for any coffee, and it marks a sharp division between dark roasts, which start out mouth-fillingly rich but tend to become bitter and flat when they cool, and light roasts, which can start out fruity and thin but go on to develop a light, syrupy body (Howell calls it “buttery”).

    The Magic Brewing Machine 2007

  • This is the telltale point for any coffee, and it marks a sharp division between dark roasts, which start out mouth-fillingly rich but tend to become bitter and flat when they cool, and light roasts, which can start out fruity and thin but go on to develop a light, syrupy body (Howell calls it “buttery”).

    The Magic Brewing Machine 2007

  • Tuber melanosporum comes from southwest France and is in season conveniently after the room-fillingly aromatic white truffle of Italy goes into sleep mode.

    Vegas's Best Bets 2008

  • One tends to forget how unusually, screen-fillingly large O. J.'s head is.

    Host 2005

  • One tends to forget how unusually, screen-fillingly large O. J.'s head is.

    Host 2005

  • Cupcakes can't possibly be as mouth-fillingly flavorful as I am imagining the Madras cupcake to be.

    Mad About Madras Cupcakes Appropriately Accompanied by Cranberry Vodka and Grand Marnier Glaze Cupcake Queen 2006

  • So, this adaptation of his books on the big screen - in being true to their source material - will be tremendously, heart-fillingly comprehensible to those of us who love Jesus.

    The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Mike L 2005

  • So, this adaptation of his books on the big screen - in being true to their source material - will be tremendously, heart-fillingly comprehensible to those of us who love Jesus.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Mike L 2005

  • Aged in sherry butts and with chocolate, raisins, nuts, burnt sugar and leather on the nose and palate, it is mouth-fillingly delicious, either on its own or with the merest dribble of water.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Open up a salad bar, California-style, meaning the less familiar the produce, the more fillingly slimming it’ll taste.

    The Swell Dressed Party Cynthia Rowley 2005

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