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[ US /ˈhændˌfʊɫ/ ]
[ UK /hˈændfə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. a small number or amount
    only a handful of responses were received
  2. the quantity that can be held in the hand

How To Use handful In A Sentence

  • But as I was mulling this a little later, I was suddenly struck by one of those things that was probably already obvious to everyone else: There are a handful of strange inflection points where rock nerd culture and mass culture are in eerie synchrony for a few moments before skittering off in their respective ways for a bit — and one of them was my early teens. The (Rock) Stars Are Aligned
  • On paper, we're a one-person-one-vote nation; in reality, we're more than a bit of an oligarchy, in which a handful of wealthy people dominate.
  • only a handful of responses were received
  • Dee of Ammalu's Kitchen transforms plain chickpea flour into a steaming hot bowl of Methi Pitla with the addition of a handful of aromatic methi leaves. Archive 2007-04-01
  • The writings of a great amoralist - a de Sade, a Stirner, a Nietzsche - can inspire a handful of murders in two centuries.
  • While I'm walking along the beach and eating handfuls of cornflake sand, I encounter a group of envelopes playing horseshoes. Horseshoe Champion
  • A handful of protesters began throwing stones at the police.
  • You would go back to a handful of radio news bulletins. The Sun
  • Crack a handful of whole new season's walnuts, remove the kernels from the shells and halve and quarter them.
  • He excavates the skull, and finds six handfuls of ambergris.
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