Sentence examples for To handful from inspiring English sources
noun
The amount that a hand will grasp or contain.
- I put two or three corns in my mouth, liked it, stole a handful, went into my chamber, chewed it, and for two months after never failed taking toll of every pennyworth of oatmeal that came into the house. - Joseph Addison, The Spectator, Vol. VI
Ms Bennett said the health service was being "torn to shreds" and "handed over to handful of profit-at-any-costs, multinational health companies".
Ms Bennett said the health service was being "torn to shreds" and "handed over to handful of profit-at-any-costs, multinational health companies". To applause and cheers she told supporters: "We will not rest until we've expelled every last corporate blood sucker from our NHS". BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said the speech was "defiantly and proudly left-wing in tone".
He said the documents on Korea, and the cables yesterday about Saudi Arabia's desire to attack Iran, should only have been available to handful of senior officials.
All of the important information about the stock market — especially when it is going to crash or rally — is known only to handful of secret insiders.
For two years in Rome, I looked from blank computer screen to handful of dust and back again — a scenario that no one, even in Britain, could turn into a sitcom.
For two years in Rome, I looked from blank computer screen to handful of dust and back again a scenario that no one, even in Britain, could turn into a sitcom.
Online, we'd tour each home, winnowing candidates down to a handful to see in person.
Most of the larger houses reduced their staffs from dozens to handfuls.
Blink, and another lane lined with hundred-year-old shikumen — each a home to handfuls of families — is bulldozed.
Just be sure to stick to one handful.
Send the paper to a handful of experts to check.
