Sentence examples for a handful of basic from inspiring English sources

Scientists such as Aristotle, and Darwin have long promoted the idea that people's faces express only a handful of basic emotions - happy, sad, fearful, angry, surprised and disgusted.

It was in the years after World War II that a handful of basic hormones, discovered decades earlier, were transformed into powerful drugs.

She writes comfortable, upbeat pop that sticks to a handful of basic chords, the kind she can strum on her main instrument, the ukulele.

If you're considering a conversion — and just about everyone who has an I.R.A. ought to think about it — start with a handful of basic questions.

Instead, a handful of basic businesses — a hardware store, dry cleaners and Peter's Market, with a nice selection of meats and fish — are clustered in a compact red-brick plaza on Weston Road.

Created more than 70 years ago to keep farmers afloat during the Dust Bowl days, the subsidies are direct cash payments to farmers who grow a handful of basic row crops such as wheat, rice, corn and cotton.

Rohn taught that most of personal success boils down to a handful of basics.

It does this by asking its users to categorize their body shape as one of a handful of different basic shapes (like pear, cone or apple), and take a 'body quiz' answering some general questions like height, weight and the size of particular parts of their body (such as their arms or torso).

I own little more than a handful of yawn-inspiring basics — pearls, a signet ring — mostly from pawnshops.

The store is modestly sized, carries only a handful of brands and emphasizes basics, so long as your conception of basics includes aggressively priced re-creations of vintage work-wear and Americana styles.

With nuclear propulsion, thus far applied only to submarines and a handful of large warships, the basic logistic function of replenishing fuel may eventually disappear.