Sentence examples for handbill from inspiring English sources

Your reporter was cycling home earlier through Brussels this week (he is a bit Green, you see), and spotted a smudgy handbill reading, in rough translation: "Growth = pollution, Recession = the solution".

On the morning of March 5 someone posted a handbill ostensibly from the British soldiers promising that they were determined to defend themselves.

As advertised in an old Astley handbill, such acts sought to demonstrate the battle techniques of "a general engagement, sword in hand, with the different postures of offence, for the safety of man and horse".

The distribution of the humblest handbill or leaflet entails printing, paper, and circulation costs.

When running for Congress in 1846, he issued a handbill to deny that he ever had "spoken with intentional disrespect of religion".

A political radical, he was forced to emigrate in 1792 because a handbill he had printed was deemed seditious.

On the heels of Pond's reproductions came handbill-like personal caricatures.

In the exhibition a representation of a masquerade in Sierra Leone has shards of records littering the floor along with handbill-size advertisements for films such as "Shaft," and "Superfly," a startling example of how pop culture from one part of the world can be interwined with traditional ritual in a distant place.

Advertisements for books, in the form of handbills or broadsheets, are known from about 1466 onward, including one of Caxton's of 1477, ending with a polite request not to tear it down, Supplico stet cedula ("Please let the poster stand").

Among the earliest products of the printing press were broadsheets about the size of handbills on which were printed the text of ballads.

Written media include letters, handbills, posters, billboards, newspapers, magazines, books, and handwriting on walls and streets.