Synonym: fistful, smattering. Similar words: and function, hand in hand, stand for, send for, grandfather, back and forth, full, the rank and file. Meaning: ['hændfʊl] n. 1. a small number or amount 2. the quantity that can be held in the hand.
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121 In the midst of all this I let go of one handful of weed to shake my fist at him.
122 They played a handful of tunes from their new album.
123 The paracelsian mercurials represented one of the small handful of important therapeutic advances made before the present century.
124 What counts is having a handful of young that are exceptional.
125 Then the Government quietly pulled out and turned the operation over to a handful of communications giants and the long-distance phone companies.
126 The competition began Wednesday with 247 spellers representing newspapers from across the country, as well as a handful of international papers.
127 These days there are hundreds of newspapers, including four competing dailies, and a handful of independent television and radio stations.
127 Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.
128 Bix was appreciated by only a handful of musicians and fans during his brief lifetime.
129 Elephant seals are so severely sieved that in each generation a handful of males father all the offspring.
130 There were a handful of men in the audience when I saw the film.
131 He had grabbed a handful of cartridges from his pocket, which contained both blank and live cartridges.
132 A handful of children went to camp the first year with money provided by the House.
133 Ken Bradshaw was holding court among a handful of Waimea veterans.
134 I scooped up a handful of dinner mints as we left the restaurant.
135 And behold, he shrivelled and withered under their eyes, and became a small handful of grey dust and glass powder.
136 Gordy put his hand in the water and grabbed a handful of it.
137 With modest resources, the Agriculture Department is introducing the new technologies to growers in a handful of pilot projects nationwide.
138 Bankrolled by a few small grants, a handful of Tucsonans hooked up a 1-800 number to see if anyone would call.
139 The orangutan man reached into his pants and pulled out a handful of brochures.
140 Wild horses live in breeding groups comprising one stallion, a handful of mares and their youngsters.
141 What were they supposed to do about a handful of hedgehogs in Eunice Snell's freezer?
142 No, what I really needed was a handful of beta-blockers.
143 There was a handful of notes, of different denominations and a variety of origins.
144 Even if she only knows a handful of consonant sounds, we can help her to live like an author.
145 Neville poured a half of light and Raffles Rathbone flung a handful of silver across the counter.
146 The handful of dirt caught the dwarf in the face, making him gag and drop his guard.
147 The license limit has prevented retail chains from selling alcoholic beverages at all but a handful of locations.
148 She had three more falls before she and a handful of other players started stick and balling.
149 He shook out a handful of painkillers - the box was nearly empty.
150 There was a tapping noise at the shutters, as if some one had thrown a handful of pebbles against them.
More similar words: and function, hand in hand, stand for, send for, grandfather, back and forth, full, the rank and file, awful, in full, helpful, first and foremost, full-time, to the full, be full of, colorful, hopefully, be useful to, meaningful, fulfilling, in full swing, at full speed, successfully, hand, than, hand out, on hand, by hand, at hand, hand on.