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    Use "handful" in a sentence

    handful example sentences

    handful


    1. A small handful of walnuts or almonds, about 1-3 ounces, can help lower high blood cholesterol levels and other blood factors linked to heart disease


    2. Yet again Stephen comes to my rescue, grabbing a handful of tissues from the box I keep in here and holding them out for me


    3. He returns very quickly with a handful of kitchen roll and proceeds to dab at my leg


    4. A handful of other teachers are sprawled here and there


    5. ‘What have I let myself in for?’ he muttered theatrically as Liz, who has been collecting up some of the soggy wallpaper which fell out of the bag, throws a handful at him


    6. He corners her by the back door and, neatly forcing her to yield up the handful of wallpaper she is holding, dexterously pushes it down the back of her t-shirt as she squirms and squeals


    7. ‘Cheek!’ I retorted, grabbing a handful of cleavers from the nearby hedgerow and dabbing it on him


    8. "There’s a handful of amorphous transient contacts moving in the debris…


    9. He looked around at the handful of redsuits still out there on the ledge with him in the piss yellow, sulfurous haze


    10. Add a handful to a vegetarian stir-fry or use as a nut butter on crackers or bread

    11. These are a handful of perks that companies have offered in the past, and continue to offer to their followers in order to keep them on board


    12. So he grabbed a big handful of his stuff, and started to make a lot noise walking down the ramp to his cart


    13. Daniel’s voice was almost desperate in tone, he sighed deeply, millions have died, only a handful of us left


    14. ‘Yes, there’s the three here in the Med, one somewhere in the Rhone valley in France, four in the north American continent, a handful in Russia, two or three in the Germany/Poland/Austria regions, the three which we have in the British Isles and goodness only knows how many in the Oriental areas … they’ve never admitted to more than two up to now


    15. “Yes they are and quite a handful


    16. ‘It was cool!’ he finished, adding that Katie had a bit of a thing for Jake, before grabbing a handful of biscuits and disappearing up to his room again


    17. Then in a handful of minutes she had gone, smashed to pieces


    18. ’ He said, pausing by the side table where cutlery is neatly bundled up in napkins - he counts out sufficient bundles and hands them to me then picks up a handful of condiments, all packaged in their plastic bags


    19. ‘It was a mess, no doubt about it, but that’s because most of the house was unused; her parents were living in a handful of rooms on the ground floor by then


    20. Grabbing a handful of covers he wrenched them back

    21. 6 Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with


    22. As the story unfolds, the boy places a handful of each colour of sand into the bowl of dark water


    23. As well as the tents, there were a handful of horse-drawn


    24. And this!’ he picked up a handful


    25. Reaching for a handful of mud, Sheila roughly rubbed it onto Chrissie’s chest, her touch knowing and experienced


    26. “I suppose only a handful of people know the truth of that adventure


    27. handful of damp dirt and covered the wigglers with it


    28. That got a reaction from her, she stopped with a handful halfway to her mouth


    29. Sitting down beside Terry, having grabbed a handful of tissues from the box on the side, I put my arm round her shoulders, ‘What on earth is the matter, Terry?’


    30. He’s had lunch with her a couple of times (cue another outbreak of sobbing from Terry, I reach for another handful of tissues),

    31. He had only used it a handful of times


    32. sidled over to a nearby stall and bought a handful of


    33. She was actually dusting the thesh with a handful of flour to help it stick when that hit her and she wafted the flour over the basin while buckling up with laughter


    34. Abraham rewarded him with a handful of pennies


    35. Kneeling on the canyon floor, one hand stemmed the flow of blood from his nose, the other grabbed a handful of sand


    36. Johnson tried to grab Heather as she ran by him but only grasped a handful


    37. Accordingly, I dug up a piece of ground as well as I could with my wooden spade, and dividing it into two parts, I sowed my grain; but as I was sowing, it casually occurred to my thoughts that I would not sow it all at first, because I did not know when was the proper time for it, so I sowed about two-thirds of the seed, leaving about a handful of each


    38. My people work harder than even the Ancients, but we are no more than a handful, whereas they were thousands


    39. We were a mere handful against a horde of dead


    40. In fact, at present there was only a handful of mages who were of the Sixth

    41. She just had normal beautiful tits, one complete handful each


    42. " One of the reasons why he'd chosen to make a home of the inn was that -- beyond a handful of regulars, of which he was one -- very few customers frequented its walls


    43. "Unfortunately, only a handful of these weapons remained, smuggled down through the ages


    44. The first party through the gate were to consist of a handful of fair folk officers, five thousand Orcs and five thousand goblins


    45. Then Gogo took a shoebox out of her chest of drawers, opened it and grabbed a handful of what looked like cotton candy


    46. handful of rags in her mouth - stopping briefly to give her


    47. A lovely handful of oboloi


    48. There remained only a handful of Makii left in the Grand Hall


    49. Only a handful of Magi speckled the gathering, thin blue halos burning around their bodies


    50. From the tones, I knew my mother was one of the parties inside and I guessed from the other voices that a handful of the elders were arguing with her














































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    Synonyms for "handful"

    fistful handful smattering

    "handful" definitions

    a small number or amount


    the quantity that can be held in the hand