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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Armed with a fistful of papers you now have to join the queue to fetch the elusive gadget.
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Every time I tried to pull myself up, my fistfuls of rockweed ripped out.
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Finally I seized his scruff, took a fistful of fur.
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I fetched another fistful of miniatures and spent the rest of the flight telling her about my philosophy.
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One had to take a fistful of money to buy a few things at the market.
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The impact caused my fistfuls of weed to rip off the rock with a sickening, slimy, ripping sound.
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What he fails to add is that nowadays information is as leaky as a fistful of sand.