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  • noun Plural form of sackload.

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Examples

  • I did manage to keep the purchases under control this year...tasty morsels rather than sackloads!

    Back from Woolfest. Spinningfishwife 2008

  • I did manage to keep the purchases under control this year...tasty morsels rather than sackloads!

    Archive 2008-06-01 Spinningfishwife 2008

  • Being a compulsive disturber of sackloads of manure, I read the April 14 entry.

    Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Book marketing 101: the contents of your book bag 2007

  • 'Text and win' has been embraced by sales promotion agencies in particular as it means not only do you not have to deal with sackloads of post, you also don't have the post-campaign data entry issues.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Helen Keegan 2005

  • 'Text and win' has been embraced by sales promotion agencies in particular as it means not only do you not have to deal with sackloads of post, you also don't have the post-campaign data entry issues.

    'Text and win' or 'text and lose'? Helen Keegan 2005

  • Not one young woman in fifty thousand would stand beside a table piled with sackloads of treasure, and talk about the weather!

    QUEEN’S RANSOM Fiona Buckley 2000

  • Year after year, if I got downpours right, I winced over sackloads of letters from reproachful children who reckoned their disappointment to be my fault.

    Second Wind Francis, Dick 1999

  • A host of entertainments, food enough to eat to bursting point and take home sackloads to feed every member of the family to bursting point, lion hunts and performing elephants, chariot races galore, every farce and mime known to the Roman stage-and free wheat!

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • Within three or four weeks they had taken sackloads of Roman pottery from this place, some three inches in size, some eight or ten inches.

    Energy and Common Sense in Education and Empire 1928

  • They just dump sackloads of unsorted waste, sometimes at supermarkets, sometimes in the countryside and create a mess. real shaman: This is what happens when you have an unarmed populace.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2010

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