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.
Serves 2-4, depending on hunger4 raw, unshelled tiger prawns90ml olive oil3 cloves garlic, finely chopped500ml good-quality fish stock150g sustainable monkfish, cut into chunks1 onion, finely diced1 tsp smoked paprika200g chopped tomatoes50ml dry white winePinch of saffron soaked in 1 tbsp hot water200g Calasparra or other short-grain rice150g baby squid, cut into rings150g broad beans150g mussels, scrubbedHandful of flat-leaf parsley to garnish½ lemon, cut into wedges 1. Shell the prawns and put the flesh aside. How to cook the perfect paella
Cher's music career continued to flourish, but the Oscar made her a genuine movie star, even if she's only made a handful of movies since.
As for the remaining four songs, 'Wrapped Around Your Finger' and 'Tea In The Sahara' are doomy ciphers, the former possibly about marriage, the latter open to a handful of interpretations, none of them exactly upbeat, while 'Synchronicity I' is a trifle explaining the title concept and the monster hit 'Every Breath You Take', is ostensibly a trite love song with it's icy and obsessive core just barely concealed. Synchronicity
More kids climb on a riverside playground, and in the water beyond is a handful of cormorants, including one taking off low to the water like a seaplane.
Then a handful of fresh, chopped oregano, thyme, basil and tarragon was added.
Imagine that on only a handful of these worlds life evolved into intelligent life and built a civilization. The Sun
When you hear the term hacking, or hackathon, the first image that probably comes to mind is a handful of programmers staying up all night long, fueled by Mountain Dew and Twinkies, hacking away on laptops at arcane code. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
But at least Jasmine is employed, her now half-time job being one of a handful of Plant job classifications remaining unaxed. Shampoo Planet
He said most of the trouble was down to a handful of hard-core troublemakers who were well known to police and the courts.
The Titan Arum was discovered in 1878 in its sole indigenous habitat, the Indonesian island of Sumatra, and grows in cultivation in only a handful of places around the world.
He requested a weekly luncheon with the president and freedom to range across all areas rather than being ‘siloed’ in a handful of policy areas.
And behold, he shrivelled and withered under their eyes, and became a small handful of grey dust and glass powder.
The snow came down in handfuls and cars jackknifed to the left and right of us as we drove east on unplowed streets.
She was receiving a delightful potted history of a handful of her family's objects. The Sun
The gilded silver pinhead, styled in the image of a bird of prey, is one of a handful of examples discovered in Britain and will go on display in London.
This applies in particular to their secretariats that are tightly controlled and steered by a handful of developed countries.
And while the discounters sell a handful of branded items, most of their shelf space is for own-brand goods. Times, Sunday Times
It is burned in a metal or earthen dish called a brazier, and a double handful may last a family a whole day. Conservation Reader
There are a handful of real tech stormers (like "A Roboter"), a handful of really pretty, nearly beatless minimal compositions (see "Awaking Naked"), and another few, like this one, that find the line between the two and hop back and forth between both worlds. Slippy (Music (For Robots))
There are only a handful of entrepreneurs who doted on Steve Jobs as publicly as Masayoshi Son , the founder and chief executive of Japan's Internet and mobile carrier Softbank Corp. In the last few years, Mr. Son has compared the late Apple CEO to Leonardo da Vinci and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, while labeling him a "genius" and a "god. Softbank Founder Masayoshi Son: The 'Next Steve Jobs'?
Add a handful of the broad beans and pound to a fine paste, then add a further handful and pound again. Times, Sunday Times
Having asked only a handful of the questions I had planned, I felt disappointed, unsatisfied and unfulfilled.
No man's land is less than a mile wide and contains a handful of stalls selling fish and caviar. Times, Sunday Times
We see them playing to throngs of hundreds in big clubs and to a handful of dutiful applauders in improvised performance spaces.
Gwen unclasped her hands and grabbed a handful of nuts.
All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men. Mignon McLaughlin
Only a handful had returned to work in the immediate vicinity.
Where even the vinously literate search in vain for clues, getting down on their knees to turn over handfuls of soil or gazing down from the crest of the slope in utter bewilderment.
Walking around the cemetery yielded a handful of red-wings, phoebes, doves, and Song Sparrows and nice looks at a Field Sparrow and a White-eyed Vireo.
A handful of local people get off the bus, dispersing in different directions.
Try shredded pak choi, sliced shitake mushrooms, a handful of beansprouts, sliced mangetouts, cooked egg noodles and fresh crab meat.
A classic power feature, often touted by its supporters, that will be used by a mere handful of people.
The handful of guitar instruction DVDs I have watched range from superlative to abysmal, and nowadays the marketplace is glutted with guitar videos.
Their senior batsmen played a handful of fluent shots, but there was no stickability in the top end of the order, so that wickets fell at a steady rate.
The step sought by Virginia, known as certiorari before judgment, is one the court has taken only a handful of times, including its 1974 decision ordering President Richard Nixon to turn over Oval Office tape recordings and its 1952 ruling blocking President Harry S Truman from seizing the nation's steel mills. Chron.com Chronicle
You can always speed it up by recruiting assistance; for example, I bet the local scouts would be only too happy to help in return for a handful of woggles.
I try to limit pop-culture references and colloquial clues to a handful within each puzzle and in general each clue is some form of a dictionary definition.
I spotted a handful of guys donning suits with designer labels on their sleeves.
As they watched, one of the players shambled over to the jukebox and fed a handful of coins into it.
Only a handful of endangered species, such as the Tecopa pupfish, the longjaw cisco, and the dusky seaside sparrow, have ever been taken off the list because they went extinct.
Having spluttered vigorously into double-handfuls of water from the little stream and put the towel back on its bush, he turned his attention to his twelve-dollar boots -- for in the country of boots and saddles the leatherwork is the soul of appearances. The Wrong Woman
Here is a jade-coloured conglomeration of life resembling nothing in the world more than a loose handful of worms without beginning and without end, interloped and writhing and glowing as it writhes with opalescent fires; and here a tiny leafless shrub, jointed with each alternate joint, ivory, white, and ruby-red respectively; again this tracery of gold and green and salmon pink decorating a shiny stone, in formal and consistent pattern. My Tropic Isle
The vessel makes only a handful of voyages each year for up to 12 passengers willing to pay to swim with whale sharks and green turtles. Times, Sunday Times
With a pistol, two bullets and a handful of possessions, Viggo andson fightfor a new life in post-apocalyptic America, haunted by visions of his dead wife. SLACKERJACK – Ice Road Truckers
So this is what we are up against in the fight to preserve and vivify the life of the mind in the university-not a handful of old elitists, as leftist academics charge, but a mob of middle-aged managers.
When the gravy has been reduced to the right consistency, add a handful of rosemary sprigs and bubble for a few more minutes. Times, Sunday Times
Many of the start-up firms are small craft and microbreweries employing just a handful of staff. The Sun
The stroganoff pie had quite a creamy-textured filling, so it was a bit of a handful to negotiate in public.
It happens with only a handful of Members in their places and achieves little, if any, coverage by the media.
Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them. Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
The hound has to be a real character who tends to be bossy and, maybe, has become too much of a handful for his owners to deal with.
His specialization is too narrow to be of interest to more than a handful of students.
In this particular case the major reason for opposing an increase of a handful of dwellings was to object to a precedent being set.
In the third movement, Haitink's lucid communication of the music's textural contrasts made it a joy to listen to, and the violins’ cheeky acciaccaturas tinkled wholeheartedly from their instruments; the finale was brisk, with almost maniacal handfuls of semiquavers, and the trumpets were on top form.
Reserve the liquid and add a handful of chopped parsley and salt to it. Food Watch
All human beings (except for the handful of deviants who call themselves naturalists) have an inborn sense of shame.
The other reason a lot of folks are up in arms is because a handful of the tracks have the kind of dirty names you can't say on the radio ( "Titty F*ck", "Just F*cking"), that you'd expect out of someone like DJ Assault or 2 Live Crew, not the sweet-natured Dear. Music (For Robots): October 2005 Archives
She is losing her eyesight, cannot walk, and her speech is restricted to just a handful of words.
One handful of twilight was left, but Brevet General Thurman Dynamics fit skeet shooting into his day.
Self-evidently a handful of companies will benefit.
Cover the potatoes with another handful of grated Cheddar, criss-cross the top with thin strips of anchovy, and put it in the oven for half an hour.
From be-bop to jazz/rock fusion, he led the way, either by himself or in consort with a handful of other jazz visionaries.
A handful of other artists staged theatrical public spectacles, performances grounded in the sociologies of place and personality.
Those unwilling to concede that the corruption is pervasive generally blame rogue buccaneers at a handful of companies.
Michael threw his handful of dirt onto the coffin.
The offshore industry has trained a handful of apprentices, but these do not compare with its labour requirements.
She invited loads of friends to her party, but only a handful of them turned up.
A handful of idealistic hacks questioned the journalistic ethics of accepting freebies, but they no longer work at the paper.
For the sake of a handful of people making huge profits the entire planet has been put in jeopardy.
He said the party would rally against the stripping of national assets for the enrichment of a handful of private individuals.
The trackball products are rare products now , a handful of manufacturer in Taiwan still making it.
Loca" is hip-hop merengue performed in two languages, with assistance from Dominican rapper El Cata and English rapper Dizzee Rascal, with little appreciable difference between the versions; "Lo Que Más" is one of a handful of doleful ballads; the Pitbull-assisted "Rabiosa" is giddy, rapid-fire Latin pop. Album review: Shakira, "Sale el Sol"
Mr O'Donoghue insisted that just a handful of vagrants were causing trouble for people and that he was not insisting that all were creating a menace in the boom city.
A handful of other paintings and monotypes were on hand, but their greater sizes and varying approaches seemed to dilute the exhibition.
All these packages have the three core applications, plus a handful of additional features.
A HANDFUL of protesters stood outside George Bush senior's presidential library.
I know how it amuses him to reward loyalty by handfuls; how he likes to make a test of friends.
So it would take more years of dogged detective work by a handful of investigators to connect the dots.
Then the Government quietly pulled out and turned the operation over to a handful of communications giants and the long-distance phone companies.
Although the company reports that a handful of rafts self-inflated, the company says they've identified only one ‘suspected gas depletion.’
On the water, handfuls of gaudy drakes, cloaked in vivid breeding plumage, jockey for position near sought-after hens.
Most blogs have a dozen or so readers, but a handful have built up audiences in their thousands.
I don't happen to believe that gender is an immutable, inherent quality: rather, it is a performed series of behaviours, with accompanying emotions and cathexes, with which, for unknown reasons, a handful of people from the "opposite" sex identify. Another human target for conservatives
This had all the school's musical instruments on it: a xylophone, a handful of glockenspiels, some woodblocks, a few chime bars, about four very sorry-looking drums, and about 5 million triangles.
Alternatively you can use a handful of bonemeal or hoof and horn mixed with the soil.
There are a handful of groups which have formed around the country to find their own answer. Life Without Work
Trade isn't exactly brisk, although there's a handful of regular commuters and up to 100 ramblers on good days, so ferrymen traditionally find something else to do. Britain's Best Views: the Mersey ferry, Liverpool
For the sake of a handful of people making huge profits the entire planet has been put in jeopardy.
I was sitting around the fire pit in my backyard with a handful of straight male friends when drunken conversation inevitably turned to sex.
Hard water can be softened with the addition of a handful of washing soda (available from supermarkets) to the wash and rinse cycles.
As Mr. Malouf explained, while cooking at the Dock Kitchen, As the meal progresses, they use herbs in long slow braises, and literally handfuls of herbs are thrown on to the braising dish and cooked for an hour or more. Persia's Private Cuisine Goes Public
The orangutan man reached into his pants and pulled out a handful of brochures.
Further inside another snug adjoins the open bar, which offers up to eight real ales as well as a handful of carefully picked ciders and perries. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
A handful of common sense is worth bushel of learning.
Healthful choices include a small handful of dried fruit and nuts, whole - grain crackers with a slice of cheese or a hard-boiled egg, or yogurt topped with a tablespoon of granola.
A handful of profiteers, cashing in on this occasion to barter superstition, are ready to tout articles relating to funerals.
The latter and the Imperial Russian Musical Society were distrustful of the group of musicians known as the ‘Handful of Five’.
Sharpe grabbed a handful of his mare's mane to haul himself back upright.
A good rule of thumb is that a portion of rice is two and a half handfuls.
And it is this strength that Manhattan has drawn on, offering burgers, steak baguettes, scampi, ribs and a handful of other meat-lead meals.
There's an army of preppy kids and only a handful of skaters.
In fact, only a handful of the wealthy allow their entire fortunes to be taxed.
But love conquers all, and thanks to this series, we we're all well aware that breaking your parents' hearts is fine if you're in love with a vampire man-child, which only a handful of us are.
Warner Digital Studios is one of a handful of studio in-house operations that have entered the increasingly competitive visual effects business.
Finally he picked up a handful of stones and every time he looked round and found her following, he threw one.
Only a handful of high-quality azurite in equant blocky crystals to 4 cm have been found in these pockets so far.
The only hangers on are a handful of mendicants who are stretched out on the cool stone floor of the mandapam or seated on the benches inside the park.
After sleeping for most of the day and necking another handful of the same vitamin pills as yesterday, I'm feeling a lot better.
Because of sparse rainfall during the current season, I occasionally got 'shipwrecked' a handful of times but Oliver assures that the ride is even better in the wet summer months. Jamaica Gleaner Online
Carpio plays an evil spider woman called Arachne, one of the handful of large roles in the complicated, stunt-heavy production. The Seattle Times
She swallowed a handful of paracetamol tablets last Wednesday three hours after arriving at her new jail and had to be rushed to hospital. The Sun
I let the coins spill into my palm and tossed a handful of them at the open safe.
Those handful of days were long enough to realize how lonely an old timer could truly be.
I grab a handful of clothes and stuff it into the drawer of the mahogany dresser next to one of the king-sized beds.
Three days wi 'nothing; a week with naught more than drammach-a handful of oats and a little milk. Sick Cycle Carousel
In the midst of all this I let go of one handful of weed to shake my fist at him.
The airplane was a new weapon in the military arsenal, and Douhet was one of a handful who saw its potential.
It's the ultimate haute Robinson Crusoe hideaway: a handful of thatched villas, constructed by local artisans without recourse to a single nail, incorporating driftwood and reclaimed tree trunks as wall supports and table legs.
Far below you is the little linear cluster of houses with a handful of solid stone buildings at its heart. Times, Sunday Times
While Woody Guthrie was a rambling, gambling, hard-travelling, hard-drinking guy who collected a handful of wives in his time and whose guitar "killed fascists", his travelling partner, Pete Seeger was a teetotalling Quaker Unitarian pacifist who married a Japanese girl during World War Two and did time briefly for refusing to name names to Joe McCarthy. "This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces It To Surrender"
We all watch the same TV shows, gawp at the same handful of celebrities, hanker after the same soft furnishings and hardwood floors.
Any person in the world could reach the caliber of magician to be able to make these by the handfuls and that's what a great majority of people did do.
Take a handful of clay and roll it out about a centimetre thick. Times, Sunday Times
A handful of freelance photographers work inside the country, but none of the big names. Times, Sunday Times
Sprinkle over some large handfuls of crushed honeycomb, then run the spatula through the mixture again to make more streaks. The Sun
The second was more dangerous, coming five minutes after the session had started and just as a handful of cars were completing their installation laps, bringing out the red flag. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
Chantry houses tend to resemble community hangouts , jam-session rooms or fraternity houses more than magical workplaces, and they're often inhabited by several Cultists and a handful of Sleepers.
The license limit has prevented retail chains from selling alcoholic beverages at all but a handful of locations.
My parents are one of a handful of the originals who have remained to this day. Times, Sunday Times
The grisly human sacrifice described by Dio Cassius is presented as the work of a handful of violent drunks and is quickly stopped by an appalled Boudica, and a little Roman boy is horrified by a bear-baiting in the arena. Boudica, Queen of the Iceni
We have received only a small handful of letters on this subject.
Leaving aside terrier men, for whom the label ‘lower class’ might have been invented, the field and its followers included only a tiny handful of people who could fairly be described as toffs.
Most beers are brewed to be drunk immediately but a handful of brewers are now producing beers that are intended to improve with age.
Pour in the cornmeal by the handful in a thin stream very slowly, whisking constantly in one direction.
At eight o'clock on Monday evening Nicholas was cabled a warning that only a handful of his troops remained loyal.
Yet this handful of churchmen is habituated to a life of devotion, worship, and communal living that gives them a depth of character that is lacking in their secular counterparts, most of whom live in a solitary sufficiency.
There have been a handful of cases of transmissible neuropathies reported in neurosurgeons. A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
Despite the possibility that a handful of Republicans will vote for the climate change bill, party leaders continue to pound their message that a new set of environmental regulations will overtax Americans and eliminate jobs. Democrats turn up heat on climate bill
If no one is vegetarian, you can add a handful of bacon lardons to the pan with the onions and garlic. Times, Sunday Times
All, and I do mean all, this veteran postman is providing in 20 minutes of play these days is a handful of rebounds. USATODAY.com - Running (and screening and defending) on empty
Hardly had a century and a half elapsed before the sturdy colonists, who did not claim freedom but determined to keep it, formally revolted and fought their way to absolute independence -- not, by the by, a feat whereof to be overproud when a whole country rose unanimously against a handful of troops. Arabian nights. English
Under them, the entire company -- most notably McLeavy as a tender-tough Stella and Tim Richards as unpolished but compassionate gentleman-caller Mitch -- vivify a revival that works to remind anyone who's forgotten that here's one of the handful of preeminent 20-century American plays. David Finkle: Blanchett as Blanche in Tennessee Williams's Streetcar Named Desire
Ruben Quinones, 33, director of sales and social media for Path Interactive, a digital advertising agency in New York City that provides services to a handful of pest control companies, called the bedbug search environment over the last few weeks "ridiculously competitive. NYT > Home Page
A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
The machine press that was found on the premises was locally made and police believe it could be one of a handful in the country.
A handful of old faithfuls came to the meeting.
The trend has been fueled by a handful of small niche designers.
Houses like this can either feel like they've never been occupied - full of treasures polished by an invisible army of servants - or appear all too lived in, suggesting a handful of ghosts and a madwoman or two in the attic.
New York was once home to a handful of roller-skating rinks, but most have shuttered in recent years. High Line on a Roll
A handful escaped across the shark-infested waters on makeshift rafts. Times, Sunday Times
We ate handfuls of bittersweet chocolate chips and licked peanut butter off spoons.
There's no place on earth quite like this handful of sun-drenched, mid-Pacific islands.
For pesto, the traditional method is to put basil leaves into the mortar before adding a fat clove of garlic, then some local olive oil and a handful of pine kernels.
A handful of newsletters have outguessed the market with some regularity. Time To Time The Market?
Butter the toast and place a handful of shrimps on each slice. Times, Sunday Times
That first handful of novels, slim as panatellas, are testament to that.
The composition of these minerals is known from a handful of outcrops containing inclusions of mantle material.
Proper buffet cars are economic on only a small handful of their routes, notably Waterloo-Bournemouth.
A mere handful set up their own business.
Simple mathematics starkly outlined the scale of the difficulty for the handful of Southern Presbyterian missionaries who had elected to hold themselves responsible for saving the souls of ten million people in North Kiangsu. PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
Brothers Tim and David Dang have poured their proclivities for fanciful imaginings and arty doodles into a sharply drawn comic for kids, Brilliant Boy, about a handful of precocious tykes and their G-rated misadventures.
Mejorana (marjoram) origanum onites: Along with thyme, marjoram is the ingredient in the traditional manojo de hirbas de olor - handful of fragrant herbs - mentioned in countless recipes for soups and stews. A Culinary Guide to Mexican Herbs: Las Hierbas de Cocina
Yet a handful of committed neoconservative defense intellectuals in and out of government convinced the president, rightly or wrongly, to back the idea.
Auditors only have to identify the flights staff were on, and then track down the handful of no-shows from those flights - both painfully easy tasks.
“They are too slight and unsolid pledges, my lord,” said the Queen; “add at least a handful of thistle-down to give them weight in the balance.” The Abbot
Only a handful seemed to appreciate the advantages in actively building trust, credibility, and cooperative relationships with peers.
Shadowy clouds completely obscured the moon, leaving a meager handful of stars to vainly attempt to provide light.
A little while later, still holding Maura in his arms, Michael threw his handful of dirt on to the coffin.
Rinse, squeeze dry in handfuls then wrap in a clean tea towel and squeeze dry again. Times, Sunday Times
She has been diagnosed with blepharospasm, an incurable condition affecting a handful of people. The Sun
There, Obama scattered flower petals in remembrance of his mother, posed for a few pictures, and waded out to join a handful of locals populating a wedgy little peak on a small-wave day. Obama Surfs!
A handful of components, scraping iron ore from a planetesimal. Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » 2010 » March
But the scandal of Enron's collapse is not an isolated example of a single company run amok, or even a handful of companies.
Apart from these three suites, there are two piano sonatas and just a handful of smaller works.
Berman's plea also assumes that the entertainment industry must forever be dominated by a small handful of conglomerates, the equitability of whose revenue distribution can charitably be described as abysmal.
These new arrivals from the continent renamed the landscape, towns, and many of the rivers in their own tongue so that only a handful of pre-Anglo Saxon British words-such as mattock, brock, bannock-remain in modern English. Futureofthebook.com
Yet the aid package passed in an instinctively isolationist Congress with only a modest handful of dissenters.
Well, among Mark's many peculiarities (and there is neither the time nor the space to describe the others), is the fact that he owns only a handful of CDs, if that.
At one point, Amba was asked to throw a handful of flowers onto a yantra, or sacred diagram, with five faces corresponding to the five faces of Lord Siva.
Vegetarian barbecue riblets, vegan Southwest steak wraps, and dairy-free chocolate coconut-cream pie are just a handful of the hundreds of delicious, animal-free menu options now commonplace in dining halls across the nation. Ryan Huling: The Most Vegan-Friendly Colleges
This is only a handful of some of the most notable men who helped to get American astronauts to the Moon.
I was raised in Canberra, where the public education system is quite excellent and the handful of private schools are relatively unpretentious.
I picked up a handful of snow from what was left on the bench and mushed it around in my hand idly.
She bent and pulled up a double handful of weeds.
Much of this has been concerned with the production of automobiles, and alongside a veritable library of antiquarian books about specific marques there are a handful of excellent scholarly histories of individual manufacturers.
Among the group's upmarket names, Bentley is probably cost-effective, but Lamborghini and Bugatti sell only in handfuls and must be a huge drain on resources.
Kile is among a handful of top-flight pitchers headed toward free agency.
This applies to no more than a handful of wine styles: claret, red and white Burgundy, Rhône reds, Tuscan and Piedmontese reds, vintage port, vintage champagne, a few Spanish reds, Mosel Rieslings and Californian Cabernets.
She also looks after her granddaughter, Abby, who is three years old, loud, boisterous and basically a handful.
Others are no more than a handful of true believers with a nifty website.

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