Sentence examples for a half handful from inspiring English sources

Dip your fingers into the bowl of water and scoop up a half handful of rice.

Twenty years later, he was one of a half-handful of baseball people to testify on behalf of Curt Flood in his suit against the reserve clause.

When you wake up there is cereal on the floor and a dirty bowl in the sink and the cereal that you were going to eat for breakfast – Sugar Puffs – is no longer in the box – or, to be more specific, there is a half-handful of cereal in the box, enough to not say the box is empty, but certainly not enough for an actual bowl of cereal.

When you wake up there is cereal on the floor and a dirty bowl in the sink and the cereal that you were going to eat for breakfast Sugar Puffs is no longer in the box or, to be more specific, there is a half-handful of cereal in the box, enough to not say the box is empty, but certainly not enough for an actual bowl of cereal.

So among the evergreen cards destined for mantels and mailboxes, there will be, as has been for more than a half century, a handful of cards featuring the sweet watercolor portraits of animals and angels signed simply, "Mary".

The list of players involved in LCOS development or production spans a dozen and a half companies; a handful of those which are publicly-traded are listed in the table below.

Of the million and a half nonagenarians, just a handful are widely known to be gay.

The bugs initially cost about two and a half dollars each; a handful cost hundreds of dollars.

Even within the day and a half in which the handful of inspectors are in a school, more of their time is spent in offices looking at stats than understanding the human interactions that take place there.

The three-and-a-half minute video begins with a handful of cops approaching the car with their guns drawn.

As a child, Howard Dully was a handful and a half.