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Recent Examples of bellyful At dawn, the farmers loaded the trucks with the land’s bellyful of flowers and headed out to sell to the neighboring towns. Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025 The apex of that transformation arrived with the N.F.L. planting this year’s event in Las Vegas, where the prevailing ethos might well be that a bellyful of anything is barely enough. Billy Witz, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024 Who wants to talk of destruction with a bellyful of ribs? John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2019 Go instead for the exquisite acting, the splendiferous set — and a bellyful of laughs. Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 13 June 2019 The ecologist gets his data and the caiman is none the worse for wear, save for losing a bellyful of rotting flesh. Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 11 Oct. 2017 On its way to skim the lake and grab a bellyful of water to drop on a nearby forest fire, a CL-215—also known as Scooper—gave him a nice little haircut. Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bellyful
Noun
  • The New York Yankees have a surplus of outfielders right now and potentially more on the way ahead of the 2026 Major League Baseball season.
    Patrick McAvoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • For this Nuggets lineup, the average comes out to a pedestrian 6-9, with three capable perimeter defenders to assist the heavy-footed centers, two 40% 3-point shooters to space the floor, and a surplus of play-making talent.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Instead of the oil-baron excess of Dallas or the leather-and-chrome bravado of contemporary money dramas like Billions, Carter favors seductively austere minimalism and high-ticket abstract art.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2025
  • And pretty much everyone drank to excess.
    Kate Belli, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025

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“Bellyful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bellyful. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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