Sentence examples for up by the handful from inspiring English sources

Diamonds were being scooped up by the handful.

Drain and squeeze dry, taking the spinach up by the handful.

Then wrap in a dishtowel and squeeze out excess water, or just take up by the handful to squeeze out excess water.

Like ninja assassins in a schlock action movie, C.I.A. dummies show up by the handful, and Roy blows them all away.

As his first wife, Maryann, recalls in "What It Used to Be Like," Ray suddenly announced that he was about to spend the next two years in the Amazon, where he seems seriously to have believed that diamonds could be picked up by the handful.

Those seeds, which the men gathered up by the handfuls, started the first wave of hardy camellias now offered to American gardens, including a deep red with yellow stamens called Korean Fire, introduced last year by Hines Horticulture of Irvine, Calif.

Drain, take up the chard by the handful and squeeze out excess water.

Latrell Sprewell, who was doubled and harassed by Mario Elie, was 0 for 2, and Marcus Camby, who picked up charging fouls by the handful, was 0 for 2. Almost a bystander to the chaos, Ewing didn't take a shot.

Alongside stalwart Ann Odong and the team at The Women's Game, podcasts popped up by a handful of others: The Sporting Wife, This AFL Life, LadiesWhoLeague and its stable of spinoffs, and The Outer Sanctum.

Her bright, curve-enhancing garments and loose, shoulder-grazing hair — even her rimless glasses — have been taken up by a handful of candidates on the climb.

In the other, backed up by a handful of non-governmental organisations and activists, plus a small but growing group of members of the public, is Christensen, head of the Tax Justice Network (TJN).