Sentence examples for handful make from inspiring English sources

The crowd pushes; only a handful make it.

This gives MLB organisations the incentives of salmon, which spawn scores of young far upriver in hopes that a handful make the treacherous journey all the way back to sea.

The camp at Calais which has dominated the headlines holds an estimated 3,000 people and of these only a handful make it to the UK and avoid arrest.

"We found that, of the three billion nucleotides in the human genome, just a handful make the difference between those who can stay healthy in spite of HIV infection and those who, without treatment, will develop Aids," said Bruce Walker, director of the Ragon Institute at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

But just a handful make a living in the traditional ways from the water and the land, call each other "bub," a term similar to "buddy," and scoff at "upstreeduhs," people who have moved away from the water and into town.

Each year, a few cities slide off the list and a handful make their debut.

A handful made terse statements of support for Mr. Bouton.

Of the thirty partisans, only a handful made it back to Sarajevo alive.

The original printing plate was destroyed, but a tiny handful made their way into circulation.

There were only a handful made; he ordered four sets, which sold almost immediately.

A handful made headlines through the spring with rumors of their impending departures because of the regulations.