Rice quantities

Usage examples of cupfuls.

And there were all of six cupfuls of sugar in the cache--if he had foreseen this he would not have been so saving the last several days.

Kris took two slow cupfuls of water before she started back to the crates.

Well, maybe not an unpleasant argument, for there seemed to be cupfuls of water thrown about.

Angelica Hutton was cutting elk meat on a folding table, and dropping the pieces and carefully measured cupfuls of dried beans and soup barley into the bubbling water.

There was a bucket of clean water hanging from a nail near the hearth, and he dipped several cupfuls to flood his dry throat.

Plunging the board into the ground, she came up with a couple of cupfuls of soil.

The average consumption of tea, a highly nourishing combination in the severe Tibetan climate, was put by one observer as high as forty to fifty cupfuls a day with some drinking perhaps as few as twenty and others as many as eighty.

As the machine dispensed two fizzing cupfuls of club soda, he realized that this was probably exactly what she was going to do.