The jugs were full to the point of overflowing.

Anybody can cure a curable disease if he happens to have the right drug at hand, but the treatment of a condition for which there is no positive cure makes much greater demands on the doctor, who has to be practical pharmacologist, human being, psychiatrist, and father confessor—he has, in fact, to be a proper physician in the fullest sense of the word.

Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.[…]A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.

Our book gives full treatment to the subject of angling.

'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.

She had tattoos the full length of her arms. He was prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

"I'm full," he said, pushing back from the table.

This movie doesn't make sense; it's full of plot holes.

For on those evenings, when the moon is full and bright and clear, mothers and fathers in Siam tell their children to look up at the moon and then ask them what they see there.

a full pleated skirt; She needed her full clothing during her pregnancy.

The heart is so full that a drop overfills it.

nines full of aces (three nines and two aces)

I'll beat him with my kings full! (three kings and two unspecified cards of the same rank)

Mr. Coniff: That is the only evidence you gave of his being intoxicated, that his hat was on the side? […] Mr. Coniff: That is the only indication you gave the committee when you were asked if the judge was full, that his hat was on the side of his head; is that right?

You know full well what makes me look so pale.

This cupboard[…]
this other one,
His true wife's charge, full oft to their abode
Yielded for daily bread the martyr's stone,

It is full strange to him who hears and feels,
When wandering there in some deserted street,
The booming and the jar of ponderous wheels,[…]

[…] he had tasted their food, and found it so palatable that he had eaten his full before he knew it.

Early next morning we were over at the elk carcass, and, as we expected, found that the bear had eaten his full at it during the night.

When he had eaten his full, they set to work again.

It is like, that the brain of man waxeth moister and fuller upon the full of the moon: …

a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (editor), Works, Volume VII: Practical Works, Revised edition, 1808 page 219,
This earthly moon, the Church, hath her fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses, while the shadow of this sinful mass hides her beauty from the world.

The September moon fulls on the 20th at 24 minutes past midnight, and is called the harvest moon.

By the black cave of Atropos, when the moon fulls, keep thy tryst!

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nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs

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