Sentence examples for some handful from inspiring English sources

The answer seems to be that the true essence of life is not some handful of genes, but coexistence.

The job's only drawback was that it required some travel — the occasional overnight to Iowa City or the equivalent, to sound out some handful of guys who thought their business deserved to be bigger than it was.

On NBC's "Meet the Press," Mr. Gates said that under the plan, 100,000 American troops would be in Afghanistan in July 2011, and "some handful, or some small number, or whatever the conditions permit, will begin to withdraw at that time".

"By the time the thieves noticed the purse, it contained only some handfuls of paper, a powder compact, five twenty-dollar bills, and a pair of diamond earrings worth around forty thousand dollars.

In other words, some lucky handful of incoming freshmen will be handed $2,000 without jeopardizing their status as amateurs.

But there are some, a handful or two, that brush up against greatness itself, and yet don't seem to get a ticket on the literature train.

All it's going to take is some tubes, some water, a handful of seeds and some fish (poop is plant food).

Add a diced potato, some pumpkin, a handful of kale, some parmesan rind and cover with enough bean broth and water to make up a litre.

Mine probably contains some butter, a handful of eggs, some tomatoes and a hunk of cheese, along with a bottle of Diet Coke and some raspberries I bought at the weekend and which are on the cusp of going off.

Some have a handful of members, some have millions.

Beginning cooks might have a little trouble because his off-hand manner also extends to some measurements: "a handful of this," "a knob of that," "a wineglass or two" are used the same way as teaspoon and cup.