HANDFUL in a Sentence
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382 example sentences for HANDFUL, such as:
1. The little lad was a real handful.
2. She has diminutive hands for an adult.
3. Satan always finds work for idle hands.
4. The two men examined the handful of coins.
5. The hands of the clock crept slowly around.
2. She has diminutive hands for an adult.
3. Satan always finds work for idle hands.
4. The two men examined the handful of coins.
5. The hands of the clock crept slowly around.
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Meanings and Examples of HANDFUL
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handful
n. the quantity that can be held in the hand
n. a small number or amount
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 She untied the knot and a handful of gold coins rolled out on the bed.
2 Why, there's hardly a handful of Democrats in the whole County who aren't barred from voting, now that they've ruled out every man who fought in the Confederate Army.
3 Near the bed stood a table holding her breakfast tray, with its harmonious porcelain and silver, a handful of violets in a slender glass, and the morning paper folded beneath her letters.
4 Puzzled by the sudden change in her tone, he mechanically gathered a handful of wood from the basket and tossed it on the fire.
5 She ran down the gravelly embankment, smiled at children gathering flowers in a little basket, thrust a handful of the soft pasque flowers into the bosom of her white blouse.
6 He picked up a handful of pop-corn, let it run through his fingers, looked at her wistfully.
7 The ship's company being reduced to but a handful, the captain called upon the Islanders to assist him in the laborious business of heaving down the ship to stop the leak.
8 I caught a handful of whiskers and pulled, shouting something.
9 There was a gold watch, for one thing, with a chain and locket; there was a silver pencil, and a matchbox, and a handful of small change, and finally a card-case.
10 Far off to the right, through a window in the forest could be seen a handful of stars lying, like glittering pebbles, on the black level of the night.
11 It was a handful of men splattered into the faces of the enemy.
12 The two men examined the handful of coins.
13 If his notions of hidden treasure had been analyzed, they would have been found to consist of a handful of real dimes and a bushel of vague, splendid, ungraspable dollars.
14 Before day-dawn, Judge Thatcher and the handful of searchers with him were tracked out, in the cave, by the twine clews they had strung behind them, and informed of the great news.
15 So she made a fire on her hearth, and that it might burn the quicker, she lighted it with a handful of straw.
Example Sentence: (172 in 12 pages)
1 Inside the bottle you will find a handful of sparkling semi-precious gemstones which spiritual healers believe affect our health and well-being.
2 He surveyed the handful of custo-mers at the bar.
3 The boy picked up a handful of stones and started throwing them at us.
4 A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
5 His specialization is too narrow to be of interest to more than a handful of students.
6 Only a handful of firms offer share option schemes to all their employees.
7 The little lad was a real handful.
8 I stayed behind a few minutes to plant in my garden a handful of roots I had dug up in the forest, and which I feared would wither if I left them till the morning.
9 This text book is a new edition of a work that has been used for the last four years in a handful of schools around the country.
10 Obama and Romney embarked Saturday on the final stretch, making their closing arguments in the handful of battleground states that will decide the outcome of a tight race that is going down to the wire.
11 She has diminutive hands for an adult.
12 The future of society is in the hands of mothers; if the world was lost through woman she alone can save it.
13 Satan always finds work for idle hands.
14 You can't reach for anything new, if your hands are still full of yesterdays junk.
15 The hands of the clock crept slowly around.