Thimbleful used in a sentence

Thimbleful in a sentence as a noun

Stillsuits obviously, so you won't lose more than a thimbleful of moisture a day

I have mixed feelings about golf courses, but there is a thimbleful of actual data for you.

Compared with what the Mississippi dumps into it every day, this is a thimbleful.

Reddit is a thimbleful of awesome floating in a bucket of ****. As I grow older, the best communities and sources online are small.

> There's no better reminder that only a thimbleful of useful human knowledge is actually found on the internet. Or in books, for that matter.

Sadly the equipment only gets you several thimblefuls per hamster-day.

My experience is just a small sample, like a thimbleful of water from a firehose, but it may be representative of the larger picture.

As another poster phrases it, "Reddit is a thimbleful of awesome floating in a bucket of ****". I wouldn't go that far, but it's closer than the usual framing of Reddit as having "dark corners"; that is, the site is much more bad than good.

Are we likely to detect a spacecraft "just 3 to 12 feet across and weigh as little as a thimbleful of water" passing somewhere through our solar system at 20% C?

There's no better reminder that only a thimbleful of useful human knowledge is actually found on the internet. I recently spent 4 hours online trying to solve a carpentry problem and not even knowing what words to use.

If there is a relatively cheap, concrete solution I did not uncover which has been stable for over a year I would buy that wizard a thimbleful of scumble

In a similar vein, I feel it was a lot better for just about everyone back when you could take more than a thimbleful of liquid onto an aeroplane. > Employers should be using other methods to screen prospective employees -- looking at past projects [...

The only reason fent exists on the black market is it's stupidly easy to smuggle compared to heroin, a tiny thimbleful of it could be cut into something like a thousand doses. This works out for dealer economics, it's not to benefit the addict.

If I'm having a nightcap then it's just a thimbleful rather than a tumbler; I like fine whiskey, and it's sufficiently expensive that I restrict myself to little sips rather than full measures.

We know a thimbleful of information about nutrition and health generally. We know even less than that about what more recent inventions do to the human body because there is simply less of a track record and time span in which to determine meaningful data and conclusions.

Taking the thimbleful of knowledge that you have and making snap judgements based on it will often mislead you. In the case of the cars, without looking it up it is not obvious to me which is worse - the energy loss in starting and stopping at low speeds, or the quadratically scaling energy loss from wind resistance at high speeds.

That process could not be captured; and it struck Sax forcibly how little of anyone’s thinking was ever recorded or remembered or conveyed in any way to others – the stream of one’s consciousness never shared except in thimblefuls, even by the most prolific mathematician, the most diligent diarist."