Sentence examples for double handful from inspiring English sources

The doctor hands you a double handful of wailing flesh and tells you it lives with you now.

"This is a double handful of nothing.

But when he scooped a great double handful of water up to his cracked lips it turned back to sand and fell through his fingers.

Sitting on a makeshift stool, Joseph Rice, 41, scooped up another double handful of copper and silver from the bucket and spread it around a 3-foot-by-3-foot sieve, looking like an urban prospector.

At its very best (six or seven of the novels and a double handful of the short stories), it is like nothing that surrounds it in time and space.

A square is laid out in the centre of a table, its sides marked 1, 2, 3, and 4. The players put their bets on any of these numbers, after which the banker rings a bell to terminate the betting and empties onto the table a double handful of small coins, beans, buttons, or other small objects (numbering about 200), which he covers with a metal bowl.

Me, pondering the choices: sand castles or sand balls — wet double handfuls smooth-coated with dry sand into hard, sugar-dusted spheres; such a pity to have to whip one at your brother.

For information call 020 7565 5000 Kathy Burke's spaghetti with Fontina and spinach Serves 2 as a main dish 250g spaghetti 125g Fontina 2 cloves of garlic 8 sun-dried tomatoes in oil 2 double handfuls (about 125g) small spinach leaves a handful of basil leaves optional: a small tin of red salmon Put a large, deep pan of water on to boil.

That said, even if you avoid mass oppression and strife, even the "best" autocrats trigger countless low-grade petty cruelties that ruin double handfuls of lives every day.

Accompany Leyshon to Leddenton for a double-handful of the bleakest horrors imaginable.

Women handed out pink-frosted cupcakes and dished mikigaq (barrel-fermented whale meat) by the double-handful to people with outstretched Ziplocs.