Sentence examples for handful because from inspiring English sources

Since starting the squad, Mr. Weiss, a former Ford assembly plant worker, said he had attended funerals almost every Friday, missing only a handful because of snowstorms.

The games have all been available for me to follow, although I have only caught a handful because of the time difference.

And I've said this to Sue Paterno, and the truth is, he could also be a handful — because he had strong opinions about things.

Moreno, who stands 5 feet 11 inches and weighs 207 pounds, is a handful because of the yards he generates after the first hit.

Just don't eat more than a handful because almonds (and nuts in general) are high in calories.

Coupled with moodiness, the moody temper-throwing person can be a real handful because you never know where you stand with this person.

The remote is more than a handful, mostly because it has too many buttons, including a keyboard that is close to useless -- the tiny keys are laid out in alphabetical order, not QWERTY style, forcing you to hunt and peck.

He has placed a handful fewer judges because he has nominated fewer.

Old recipes often begin "melt a handful of sorrel" because that's what it does.

The law, part of a broader anti-abortion package, is the most aggressive of the "previability" abortion bans enacted recently by a handful of states because it outlaws abortion two weeks earlier.

You don't want to narrow the data so finely that it can be swayed by just a handful of people, because then you get into the bought-off situation that we remember from the pre-SoundScan charts.