Sentence examples for slim handful from inspiring English sources

This tale and others are collected in "You Better Not Cry," Mr. Burroughs's seventh book, out next week, a slim handful of hapless holiday stories, including one detailing a wincingly gross tryst with an aging sidewalk Santa.

This means that except for the slim handful of plastics designed specifically to biodegrade, every synthetic molecule ever made still exists.

But I also carry a torch for other shows that failed to complete more than one lap on the small screen, a handful of slim novellas to stack up alongside the Tolstoy girth of The Wire, The Sopranos and those other big beasts of heavily serialised storytelling.

Several factors lead to a firm no, a handful to a very slim yes.

This is particularly true of plants because unless one is an experienced gardener, the chances of knowing more than a handful of species is slim.

The startup is still a slim team and only has a handful of doctors on the platform — including one Jack says also treats NFL players.

Almost all the books were 35 cents, though some slim single volumes were 25 cents, and a handful were half a dollar.

Many Americans agree, although public opinion is rapidly shifting; a handful of polls now show a slim majority in support of same-sex marriage.

It was a handful of voters like me who provided his slim margin of victory in the primaries.

But with the political climate around gay rights changing drastically — a handful of recent polls show that Americans, by a slim majority, now support same-sex marriage — some strategists see little political cost to a shift in position.

That's not nothing, but Labor would be unlucky to lose more than one seat nationwide by such a slim margin, and the suggested deal would only apply to a handful of seats.