handful
IPA: hˈændfʊɫ
noun
- The amount that a hand will grasp or contain.
- (obsolete) A hand's breadth; four inches.
- A small number, usually approximately five.
- A group or number of things; a bunch.
- (informal) Something which can only be managed with difficulty.
- (slang) A five-year prison sentence.
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Examples of "handful" in Sentences
- Mission mech franchise ready to roll out, having delayed the title a handful of times.
- President Obama says he called a handful of troops this morning wishing them a merry Christmas.
- "I often give them to people," said Anice, taking a handful from the basket and offering them to her across the holly.
- Weatherspoon's big plays were among the handful from a defense that has 10 starters back and was expected to be much improved.
- While professing unhappiness with what he called a handful of "mistakes," he held fast to his basic support of Bush's policies.
- "There is no word more shameful in the Israeli lexicon of violence than the word 'handful,' " wrote Nahum Barnea, a columnist for the newspaper Yediot Aharonot.
- In the early 90s he dated the housemate of my then-boyfriend and it was quite bizarre when he told me, when refering to bosoms, that "more than a handful is a waste".
- Aiming to minimize his risk, he called a handful of funds to find how many bonds in their portfolios were considered "distressed," with yields 10 percentage points above Treasurys.
- That's why the IP address management vendor is looking to dispel what it calls a handful of myths around DNS and get people paying attention to the technology in 2009, despite economic worries.
- Furthermore, that thin handful of shared beliefs that held the roof up -- imperialism, racism, antipathy to democracy, militarism, and authoritarianism -- was absolutely unacceptable to the vast majority of Americans; so you couldn't put any of that rigging out there where the voters might chance to see it.
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