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1 Things could have appeared radically strange and radically different, and it wouldn’t have taken more than a handful of shots and a thimbleful of imagination to pull it off.

2 Just one thimbleful of neutron star would weigh 100 million tons.

3 These 10 wines represent a mere thimbleful of the rosés produced in the United States each year.

4 Watch five minutes of a remote-control back loader shifting two thimblefuls of earth across a hole, and all that will change.

5 Microbiologists began by isolating the microbial DNA in a thimbleful of soil to see what genes and species were in the sample.

6 “These are patients with literally pounds of tumor that are treated with less than a thimbleful of T cells, and their tumors melt away,” said Dr. Fred Applebaum, the Hutch’s deputy director.

7 Our only complaint: the tiny thimbleful of guacamole.

8 No need to use much of it—a thimbleful is enough.

9 Gilgamesh's plan had sounded good, but how could we cure an entire city with only a thimbleful of Mo's Promise?

10 About 50 guests, including several local government officials, responded with a chorus of amens, downing their thimblefuls of wine while self-consciously leaning to the left.

11 My thimbleful was entrancing: It tasted of black fruit, a little earth, maybe the sweat, hopes and fears of the crew who fashioned it.

12 He poured himself out about a thimbleful of the potent spirit and drank it off.

13 “This is a thimbleful out of a river of shame,” Osler said, “but it’s important that that focus is gradually being revealed.”

14 Periodically, they would fall silent and knock back a thimbleful; then they’d laugh and drink some more.

15 He has just a thimbleful of insight into human behavior.

他对人们的行为只有一点点见识.

16 On Netflix, a season is apparently a thimbleful of episodes and none exceeds half an hour.

17 Corn soup, a little heavy on the cream, gets a thimbleful of sprightly watermelon relish; it could use more.

18 Despite the efforts of talented actors, none of these characters share a thimbleful of onscreen chemistry – least of all Stephen Strange and Christine, a relationship meant to be at the heart of the movie.

19 Made with just a handful of actors and a thimbleful of cash, Patrick Rea’s “They Wait in the Dark” is a gruesome ghost story that plays with our expectations.

20 I made up my mind then and there, too, that I'd back him to the extent of every thimbleful of land and every splinter of timber in my possession; but it wasn't money he wanted.

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