Sentence examples for hankie from inspiring English sources

Nursing her hangover the following morning, she was thinking about the vanishing hankie and the removal of clothes, and Hanky Panky came to her in a flash.

"We've got a hankie," Sherwood says.

Full of bitter, he leans against the bar and occasionally wipes sweat and satisfaction from his forehead with a hankie.

A pitchside thermometer showed the temperature reached 106.7F, prompting a few fans to bring out that old Blackpool favourite – the knotted hankie.

This is the sound of the audience realising that Martinez, after gradually discarding all her clothes, is about to make a red hankie vanish and reappear even though she is not wearing a stitch.

Mike: Given Vinnie's rather emphatic theme here, am disappointed he finally balked at the knotted hankie.

Released in the UK today, where it is again expected to attract astonishing levels of hankie-clutching cinemagoers, what can explain its extraordinary success?

Out in Minneapolis, bases-empty seventh-inning dingers by A-Rod and Jorge Posada took away a one-run lead and then reversed it, silencing the hankie-wavers in the space of five pitches.

I'm no hankie-waver, but I believe that we victory-stuffed Yankees fans or recently enriched Red Sox Nation loonies have little notion of this deep local pain, nor quite remember the quivering first joys of giving ourselves to the hopeless early Mets.

Buffalo, N.Y., alone had maybe 15 family-owned men's-wear shops selling what a certain three-hankie film would universally popularize as the preppy look.

So there was barely a raised eyebrow among those waiting in a Bronx courtroom in June when one gum-chewing, pocket-hankie-wearing lawyer strolled in late for the start of a trial over a grisly stabbing in Co-op City, saying his return flight from a weekend getaway to Puerto Rico had been delayed.