Sentence examples for handkerchiefs from inspiring English sources

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The word "handkerchiefs" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to pieces of cloth used for wiping the face or hands, or for other personal hygiene purposes. Example: "She pulled out a pack of colorful handkerchiefs to share with her friends during the picnic." Alternatives include "tissues" or "napkins."

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handkerchiefs

noun

Plural of handkerchief

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Small units manufacture bangles, handkerchiefs, bags.

As Ernest-Antoine de Seillière, head of the bosses' organisation, Medef, waspishly commented, "Businessmen will not be getting out their handkerchiefs" over Mrs Aubry's departure.That is probably not the main reason, however, that Mr Jospin feels relaxed.

Mr Roberts was empowered to heal via TV screens and through prayed-over handkerchiefs sent by the mail.

It brought a sigh from the crowd and a rush to dip handkerchiefs in the royal blood, for use against scrofula.

"There were no shouts, no huzzas," Mr Cooper writes, "but when Davis's carriage passed, men raised their hats and women waved their handkerchiefs".No fewer than 16 previous biographies of Davis exist and these have covered his war years well.

Here, overlooking a pastoral landscape, cows munch on feedstock, geese plop and paddle in a nearby lake, men rise early to farm the fields and women knit away at scarves and handkerchiefs.

It is very hard for him to resist when 80,000 people start waving their white handkerchiefs [the traditional sign that they want the manager to be sacked]." True to form, this spring Barcelona sacked its coach, Carles Rexach, even though he had taken the team into the final four of the Champions League.

(On her first trip to Europe, in 1959, she was amazed to see white women carrying burdens and white men digging ditches, with sweaty handkerchiefs round their heads).

She, it seems, left a three-word bequest which changed the actor's life: "Don't wash wool .Mr Crystal's ability to mix unabashed sentiment with such comic zingers has left Manhattan chortling into its handkerchiefs.

All of them expressed their loyalty and gratification by loud cheers, and waving of handkerchiefs and hats.

And Hawker Siddeley's Intercity Vertical-Lift Aircraft, intended as a passenger plane that could land in urban airports not much bigger than pocket handkerchiefs, looks like the sort of thing that would have whisked Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward, International Rescue's London agent, from her penthouse in Mayfair to New York for a day's shopping.Sadly, none of these fantasies made it into metal.

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