Sentence examples for double handfuls from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

The double handful of documents produced by the Scottish lords to justify Mary's deposition were supposed to show her as cognisant of the plot against Darnley, and adulterously involved with Bothwell at that early date.

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.

By Lillian Ross Joshua Logan, co-author, co-producer, and director of "South Pacific," was busy last week, but we contrived to get a double handful of superficial data on him by wangling an invitation to sit in one of his two aisle seats during the first act of Wednesday evening's preview, the audience for which seemed to be made up mostly of war veterans and friends of the cast.