Sample sentences for BOUNTIFUL

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Definition

given in abundance (a large amount); or an abundant (large) amount

the bountiful Thanksgiving dinner

bountiful = an abundant (large) amount

the bountiful earth
enjoying by anticipation the bountiful gifts of Providence
Charles Dickens -- Barnaby Rudge
Your momma sent us a postcard from Coeur d'Alene, and on it was a bountiful blue lake.
Sharon Creech -- Walk Two Moons

bountiful = abundant (having much water or fish)

Gramps said, "Okay then, bountiful blue lake, here we come."
Sharon Creech -- Walk Two Moons

bountiful = abundant (having much water or fish)

Be bountiful, it's at her expense.
William Gibson -- The Miracle Worker
They played and bid and made sissing noises to acknowledge the bountiful folly of clothes in the garbage that are good enough to wear.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
I gathered from the bountiful way in which you treated me that you all enjoyed your visits very much.
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
'Not I, Holy One,' said Kim, reslinging the bountiful provision on his shoulders.
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
That year's harvest turned out to be bountiful, which made autumn even more celebratory.
Lisa See -- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
22:9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
The Bible -- Proverbs
And then, everyone would love her as they had loved Ellen and they would say how unselfish she was and call her "Lady Bountiful."
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
When I lay down beside her, her flower face smiled back at me omniscient and bountiful.
Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
— GLOSS Dame Fortune once upon a day To me was bountiful and kind; But all things change; she changed her mind, And what she gave she took away.
Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote
So presently Carley found herself carrying a bountiful basket on her arm, faring forth on an adventure that both thrilled and depressed her.
Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
In all his days Hare had never seen such a bountiful board.
Zane Grey -- The Heritage of the Desert
It was in those old and bountiful fields that Pedrito and his son and a few of the other men buried the boxes once we got them loaded and sealed.
Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies
This hour brings fulfillment to the longing of my heart: a ship for home, and gifts the gods of heaven make so precious and so bountiful.
Homer -- The Odyssey
The king of Schiraz[450] could not afford to be so bountiful as the poor Osman[451] who dwelt at his gate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
The captain had bountiful portions of food sent to them.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

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