handiness

How To Use handiness In A Sentence

• Women were forced to be notable housekeepers; men were compelled to attend to every detail of masculine labor in their households and on their farms, thus acquiring and developing a "handiness" at all trades, which has become a Yankee trait. Customs and Fashions in Old New England
• A handiness for visualizing in six dimensions or for abstracting the motion of a pendulum favors an agility of mind but apparently has little to do with anything else.
• It is a ‘butcher's block’ bench, simple and easy to construct (given my lack of handiness, it would have to be.)
• Rifle exercises have for their purpose the development of "handiness" with the piece. Military Instructors Manual
• We have got some big ones and they are getting to be whales regarding the size and unhandiness of them.
• Their compactness and convenience is appealing, but for pure handiness and rough and ready durability, the fixed-blade sheath knife is still king and the choice of most seasoned outdoorsmen.
• Although Paulette is suffocating under his egotism, there is a great scene in which she watches the great man at work and is entranced by his handiness with a brush and paint.
• = The object of these exercises, which may also be performed with wands or bar bells, is to develop the muscles of the arms, shoulders, and back so that the men will become accustomed to the weight of the piece and learn to wield it with that "handiness" so essential to its successful use. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition
• Concentrating on the high-class image of Bussel, we came up with an innovative idea that could remove the unhandiness of existing stoves.
• Though a little awkward at first in the use of his unfamiliar implements, his practice in all athletic accomplishments bestowed on him that invaluable quality which is termed "handiness," and he soon distinguished himself by the superior activity and neatness with which he performed his work. Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 02