Sentence examples for odd handful from inspiring English sources

There are fiercely moral souls who don't fly, or go on holiday, or buy flashy new gadgets, or eat anything except locally grown vegetables and the odd handful of seeds.

As the movie's hero, an amiably unworldly scientist named Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum), undergoes his agonizing transformation from human being to bulging-eyed flying insect, Mr. Cronenberg provides plenty of special-effects goo, a good number of unpleasant growths and the odd handful of necrotic flesh, dropping like leaves in autumn.

Nor is it at all odd that these handful of Cork-registered companies have been able to claim "stateless" income – that is, their profits are beyond the jurisdiction of any state to tax.

So it may seem odd that a handful of scientists are going to similar lengths to share not just their results but also, sometimes, their raw data -- even their lab notebooks -- often in real time.

He had a handful of odd jobs over the years, including work in a bagel shop.

There are waterfalls and go-faster striped cycle lanes, funhouses and fairy lights, as well as a handful of odd things to which no words can do justice.

Von Arnim takes a handful of odd British ladies (one young, one old, two in the middle) to Italy for a month in the sun.

By the time he reached 40, Serl had a handful of odd jobs and alternate personas under his belt, all before he'd even picked up a paintbrush. .

In a handful of odd cases where people were caught, Peter said they'd just ignore letters from the court and keep on ordering stuff to their home address, pretending as though nothing was wrong.

Last year, as her… Twenty-odd couples, plus a handful of stags, out for a few hours on a summer evening.

By Lauren Collins Twenty-odd couples, plus a handful of stags, out for a few hours on a summer evening.