Sentence examples for hanky from inspiring English sources
The word "hanky" is correct and usable in written English
It is a shortened form of "handkerchief," which is a small fabric square used for wiping one's face or nose. Example: She pulled out her hanky and dabbed at her eyes, trying to hide her tears.
noun
Short form of handkerchief.
I'm still going around with the torch, a bucket, a hanky tied to my face, putting all the flames out.
Not that you feel that there has been much hanky panky in that department with Dench's Titania.
"Brick by Brick" is a fantastic festival song and "Piledriver Waltz" coughs me up into a silk hanky.
For his first solo show, the artist has draped four aeroplane models in hand-dyed fabric in an echo of the notorious 1997 rebranding of BA, which so offended the former PM Margaret Thatcher that she felt compelled to cover the designs with her hanky.
Monty Python was funny So, that's a man with long legs walking as if he's being attacked by wasps, a man with a hanky on his head acting stupid, some transvestites and a smattering of sub-Dali surrealist art.
Hang a damp hanky in your window and your nasty habit could be archived for ever if a Google camera-car happens by.
Despite recent sales, over half of Indonesia's banking system and a third of Thailand's remain in government ownership, as do stakes in big banks in Singapore and Malaysia.Nor has stricter regulation cut out hanky-panky.
For a change, workplace hanky-panky between men and women seems to be eliciting not outrage, but snickers.
Despite a flighty Mitfordesque relation and (soon) a lesbian romance, there is relatively little hanky-panky.
Now Mr Anwar has been linked to more hanky-panky, this time with a woman.
If more than two, hanky-panky is a racing certainty.In tests where the candidate is allowed to change his mind about an answer, the pattern of changes also provides information.
