How To Use Handy In A Sentence

It's unhandy at 300 yards, but then there's not a lot of shooting at 300 yards over there. The .375 H&H: Fraud or Scam?
Other handy bits and pieces like plasters, handkerchief, aftersun and a needle and thread can also come in handy, and don't take up too much room.
There was a Malay steward behind each chair, and over in the corner, silent but missing nothing, the squint-faced Jingo; even he had exchanged his loin-cloth for a silver sarong, with hornbill feathers in his hair and decorating the shaft of his sumpitan* (* Blowpipe.) standing handy against the wall. Flashman's Lady
Normally, even in icy winter, the furnace in constant use gave warmth enough, supplemented by an electric convector heater in the gallery, but by the time help arrived for Baxter I had wrapped him in my jacket and everything else handy, and he was still growing cold to the touch. Shattered
This solution gives homeowners the freedom of never having to carry or circulate multiple sets of keys, coupled with the ability to instantaneously grant entry to family members, friends, unexpected house guests, and service providers such as handymen and housekeepers. HomeToys News

Giving money to charity in your will is another handy way to sidestep the taxman. Times, Sunday Times
In combination with the single-classloader model of WAR-deployment this is very handy for even the smallest applications. Sun Bloggers
Keeley is about to start filming the new Michael Winterbottom movie, Tristram Shandy, co-starring Steve Coogan.
The council wanted a handy city centre venue where younger mums could share a coffee and discuss matters with other people facing similar challenges.
As you are painfully aware, when it comes to being handy, I can barely work a shower curtain.
Like "just A moment," the album sees the act expanding the posthardcore sounds that dominated their early releases. "shandy" starts as an experimental pop song filled with dizzying distorted noises and then morphs into a dramatic rocker. "this is is this?" is the disc's most dynamic composition. Japan News latest RSS headlines - The Japan News.Net
So Frances Hodgson Rondel must, one way and another, have got quite an earful about Professor Shandy's strange avocation. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
Shandy Gaff is made with equal parts of beer and ginger ale.
We are confident that their reputation and persuasive skills will come in handy for the municipal authorities to collect taxes from defaulters, " said Bharat Sharma, a revenue officer.
Or on the other hand, from the governments' perspective should piracy be viewed as a handy but deniable mechanism for pressuring the software company's pricing downwards?
All this comes in handy for his job in advertising. Times, Sunday Times
Stay calm and keep your angina spray handy. The Sun
The leather cover folds out to make a handy stand. The Sun
They were kind enough to send me a box of handy, test-size virgin pieces of horsehide and cowhide, as they came from the tanner.
Our modern metric units, like the gram or the centimetre, originate from their handy description of everyday quantities.
I am not suggesting that everyone remortgages their house tomorrow and buys a side scan system, but it is handy to see just what it can do.
Have some horticultural fleece or old net curtain handy to drop over plants before frosty nights. The Sun
To forego means “to go before” – the matching fore in forego and before is a handy way to remember the correct form: Forego and forgo
Narang's experience in managing business came in handy for his new assignment.
Is there a handy dustbin or a down-spout that will assist the thief to climb on to the roof?
This machine is fully automatism number controlled, its operation is handy , andits cutting is exact.
Western parents - I use the term loosely, which is handy for any generalization Forbes.com: News
I washed it down with a pint of John Smith's, which with my soft friend's lager shandy came to more than £5 a little steep, I am sure you will agree.
I'm pretty handy at giving out advice," claimed Mark.
It's a work of exactitude in literature not rivalled outside Tristram Shandy.
For help on which questions to ask, see our handy decision tree, facing page. Times, Sunday Times
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This will always be handy and already help accentuate the area. Eve Pearl: "How To" Beauty -- Quick & Easy Breast Enhancement
And, a jig saw or coping saw is just about the only tool you'll need, so don't fret if you are not particularly handy with a hammer and saw.
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Cutaways are useful to shoot when on location as they can be used as handy band-aids in editing.
I can rewrap lines to 65 characters by typing "gq", I can use regular expressions for search and replaces (* very* handy), I can edit in Unicode when I need to, and I can speed things up greatly by making keyboard mappings for repetitive tasks. The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002
Our flat is very handy for the schools.
The Hawken brothers used the Kentucky as a model for their guns, but the barrels were much shorter (26 to 38 inches), because their users had discovered that a long-barreled rifle, regardless of its advantages, was a damned unhandy thing to hunt with from horseback. Why Shorter is Better
A large sheet of horticultural fleece, ready for a cold is always handy to wrap around tender plants. The Sun
The 25-35 litre daysacks are generally used and carried to provide storage for every day items such as sun cream, camera and all the other knick-knacks that come in handy.
Here, we have hard facts, culled from the Joel Whitburn book I keep handy for just such occasions. A break from politics: back to the oldies charts
The house was near Drury Lane, very handy for the theatre.
Another device that is very handy is a voice modem with telephone recording software.
In fact Gerry can resemble a motormouth at times and this week he'll find that comes in handy when he covers for a holidaying John Laws on AM radio station 2UE in Sydney.
Rich in PA: Or we could let invisible handymen rebuild the country. Matthew Yglesias » Context in Haiti
Have a towel handy to wipe wet faces. The Sun
But thanks to double bogies front and back, wide tracks, and a mighty handy boom, ground disturbance is kept to a minimum.
Like its cousin the haversine, the hacoversine is mainly useful for doing trig on a sphere when you don't have a calculator handy to square the familiar trig functions. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
A hanger and clothespin don't just come in handy for doing laundry, they can also be used to straighten out coiled cords, even ones that may appear permanently kinked.
He phoned elderly Americans and persuaded them to reveal their numbers and then he punched them into a handy machine in his home, which printed the new card.
Detecting suspicious activity in the community is where the bike patrol agents come in handy.
Edith Bowman reveals why the festival is special to her, and shares handy hints and her pick of this year's performers
In addition, remember to have handy in the glove box your driving licence, GB sticker, and the vehicle's registration document and MOT certificate.
She took a piece of paper from the notebook from one of the shelves in the hallway and then found a handy dandy pen and began writing in a neat yet hurried script to her mother.
The trackpad pointing device also includes handy scroll buttons.
A pussy man 'd find it rather onhandy comin' down that chimbly an 'hoppin' hether an 'yan takin' things off o 'the tree. Back Home
The one time minimum repayments come in handy is if you have multiple debts. The Sun
As an aside, it occurred to me that Tyrion could have fulfilled the prophecy if he'd killed Cersei with the same improvised garotte he used to take his revenge on Shae -- and that Jaime might find the Hand's chain of office "handy" himself for the purpose, given that his gold prosthetic isn't really suitable for tasks like strangling psychopathic sisters. Casting clues and possible solutions
The Story of Film can be read as a continuous narrative, but will be equally useful as a handy reference to dip into.
The crème blush comes in a handy compact with mirror. Times, Sunday Times
Afraid of the wonderful jiu-jitsu, I had picked up the first thing handy, which was a tabaret. The Romance of Elaine Sequel to "Exploits of Elaine"
Shandy for the men and the girls on little drops of vodka and Baby Burpjoys and I don’t know what next in the way of gut-rot. Cargo of Eagles
Always keep a first-aid kit handy.
Handy's work examines the changing nature of work, working life and of organisations.
Enter the spherical coating of niobium: when niobium becomes superconducting, and the spherical superconductor spins, it does something very handy.
This saying was often used to demean the work of an individual, especially "handymen". Undefined
Whether it's filming the so-called unfilmable (A Cock and Bull Story from Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy), telling the story of Muslims, both WN.com - Articles related to Kate Hudson gets David Letterman's pulse racing with a preview of her kinky new film
All are facts that may come in handy should direct intervention prove necessary. Christianity Today
Handy for keeping tabs on trends. Times, Sunday Times
Toast your bread as you deem appropriate, either via the broiler or your everyday handy toaster.
Some of them wanted to sell things that would come in handy, such as fowls or panoche (brown sugar). Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan
THIS jacket may come in handy - if you like your blazer attached to a pair of giant gloves. The Sun
I found him friendly and approachable, and he possessed a disarming charm that could come in handy. Times, Sunday Times
There was, among the many, a hammock-shaped nest of the golden oriole, and igloo-shaped nest of some jungle specimen, a grass-at-all-angles nest of the ouzel, an eagle's nest spacious enough for Thor to hide in, and yes, a cuckoo's nest, which is to say the nest of any other bird the cuckoo finds handy. Another Roadside Attraction
Even Mrs. Rooney, who thought that her boy was "the sweetest craythur the cun shines on," preferred to hear him called "Handy Andy" rather than The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
The house is spacious with all mod cons, handy for the station and has a garden.
Our modern metric units, like the gram or the centimetre, originate from their handy description of everyday quantities.
Clearly bodyguards come in handy for more than just getting rid of starstruck fans. The Sun
Dwarfed by her jury-rigged splashboard, Lee had pushed to a handy boat length lead at the finish and will qualify for the A-final over Denmark's Fie Udby Graugaard.
One delight, as long as it is not too early in the morning, is that everybody, from chambermaids to handymen, make their way around the property pedalling a bicycle and singing sweetly.
Seawater antennae, whose components weigh next to nothing and are easily stowable, could provide handy backups-and, eventually, more than backups. The Economist: Correspondent's diary
Uncertain how the children might react, I thought it would perhaps come in handy if I needed to defend myself.
That is not to undersell or under-rate the book: it is also a handy reference for professional writers, particularly those looking to expand more widely into other areas of food writing.
Cypal Studio for GWT has a couple of handy features to make it even easier for you to create and manage a remote connection.
It's quite a handy little tool.
Botanical names for plants are often tongue-twisters, but they are handy things to get a grip on because they can tell one a lot about a plant, without even seeing it.
They come in handy when you need to cream some extra traction between your bowling ball and the lane.
This is only a four-minute slippery shuffle from the ski lifts, while also being handy for the resort's centre.
The idea of a battlefield tour is, of course, a handy way to move audiences around a site. Times, Sunday Times
I'm really sure I've seen this business before… someone who put together a consortium of retired handymen / DIYers, and they even had a price on their site for each individual piece of Ikea furniture.
Have you seen this handy little gadget - it's for separating egg yolks from whites.
Everything was blooming and many local handymen, gardeners and maids were on the road.
This handy wooden mallet was made from some left-over scraps of oak that I had salvaged from a pallet.
This ability to be self-contained probably came in handy during her nomadic childhood. Times, Sunday Times
I assume that there were a couple of Secret Service agents handy, but he didn't seem all that well defended.
The itinerant handyman is driving through the Arizona desert when he realizes that his car radiator is in need of water.
Having the antenna dome topsides can also come in handy when the IRS auditor visits your boat to discuss your deducting all the costs of your boat as a home office.
Last weekend I asked my very handy dad to come over and replace a broken faucet in the kitchen since J and I are so very unhandy. Archive 2007-11-01
Our neighbours, it seemed, had no handy chimney stack of their own or safety rail around which to secure their gear. Times, Sunday Times
Keep some horticultural fleece handy to cover the plant on cold nights. The Sun
Some friends got together, and using a handy nearby barbeque, on several occasions provided food to the patrons.
Along with illuminating the critters, they make it easer to see the edge of ragged Colorado roads, and can be handy for setting up camp.
Also some of the buttons have a raised edge to help the visually impaired, but which are also handy when you're fumbling around for the pause button in the dark.
If the wells are made of brick, a mason or a skilled handyman can add another row or two of bricks on top of the existing wall.
This is a handy little safety box.
It is used for scrolling and zooming and is handy because using your fingers to scroll blocks the screen. The Sun
Antibodies are to scientists what tools are for handymen. Times, Sunday Times
Keep a clean cloth handy to wipe off any drips or overspray that may get onto the tracks.
You wouldn't make a chip buttie with these chips but they are so handy to have in the freezer.
Which will come in handy should it too burst into flames. The Sun
Keep an emery board handy in case of nail snags, so your teeth do not get to them first!
They are pretty handy with a bat, too. The Sun
The chief Minister, Oommen Chandy, stumped the District Collectors at their two-day annual conference here on Monday.
What's a progressive professor to do if there are no conveniently handy hate crimes on campus to rail against?
It is especially handy if the country uses another alphabet. The Sun
From shopping receipts to hankies, napkins to the tiniest scraps of paper became handy as they literally mobbed the Hyderabadi beauty for her signature.
Raymond Robair, a 48-year-old handyman who died shortly after an encounter with police, was autopsied by McGarry in 2005. Medical Examiners In America: A Dysfunctional System
The phrase may come in handy one day. Times, Sunday Times
They don't even take small chances, because these fellows are so unhandy to have around.
This handy-dandy cliche is generally attributed to Simone de Beauvoir in her book The Second Sex – this translation is from Wikiquote: Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What
In a place to themselves were other treasures, a daguerreotype of his mother, a capacious huswife that Sairy had made and stocked for him, the little box of paper "to write home on" that had been Tom's present, various trifles that the three had agreed might come in handy. The Long Roll
Jones has a cherubic face, a gappy smile and a loud voice, which probably comes in handy when he is shouting across crowded rooms.
Invented in the 1890s, the multitool is more useful now than it ever was: Its flashlight yes, some have lights can help you search through a backpack filled with charging cables to find your keys; its screwdriver is always handy when you need to open your PC for a RAM upgrade and its blades will slice through any of those blister packs that mummify electronics. Bold Folds
Here's a handy tip for removing stains from clothing.
Whether it's because you or someone you love had a hard day, or because you're just keen to help another person relax, a good cuddle, hug, or nuzzle will always come in handy.
Even the dimmest terrorist must by now be saying, “Hey, those drones the U.S. could come in handy in our line ofwork.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare in House Subcommittee Hearing
The development will also adjoin a pub and restaurant, as well as being handy for the shops and other visitor attractions in Pier Road.
Chris Green says: orca: Even the dimmest terrorist must by now be saying, “Hey, those drones the U.S. could come in handy in our line ofwork.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare in House Subcommittee Hearing
It is the season for festivity, and Carnatica has learnt from past experience that many youngsters are keen to devote time to learn a song that can come in handy for a community performance.
Ice cubes come in handy for a range of household chores, too. Times, Sunday Times
BTW I just saw a germicidal lamp at the shop Handy Mail office for only Windows Vista and Telmex Prodigy
The transcription service would be handy for the voicemail's sender and its receiver. Times, Sunday Times
So that dog lead must have come in handy after all. Times, Sunday Times
The publication ends with a handy index of notes enabling quick location of the anatomical point required.
The metronome is handy and well positioned visually to be a constant reminder of the benefit of slow practice.
Ms Grant, who has previously regaled us with tales of her family's butler and the slaughter of innocent birds and beasts up north, recalled being taken with her sisters to school ‘by a handyman’ who had a motorbike and sidecar.
The company's website has a handy reckoner that tells diners what their shares will get them. Times, Sunday Times
A converter is a handy tool to switch back and forth without having to needing a program like Photoshop or GiMP. bgrigg002 roderashe CMYK Converter Converts Between Spectrums With A Few Clicks | Lifehacker Australia
Though, as always with a Decemberists album, you may want to have a lyric sheet and thesaurus handy just in case you get a word like "roustabout" thrown at you. FIUSM.com
The logic is that they would also welcome the handy access to a healthy beverage at the same time.
Table data editor with handy functions such as paging, filtering, searching, generating SQL for data row (UPDATE, INSERT, etc.). 2BakSa.Net
Inventions, handy fables, and propaganda wormed away at the story for decades, institutionalizing falsehoods and calcifying legends, many of which then became part of the narrative in the West, where further repetition hardened and certified official Soviet accounts. The Gun
He said: ‘I go abroad a few times a year to Spain and France and it comes in handy to have some Euros.’
One long-married rebbetzin suggested making a list of all the reasons you married him and keep it handy.
I just wrapped my arms and legs round a handy railing and held tight.
A dealbreaker for me is believing in astrology, which is handy since so many numbskulls blurt out references to astrology very soon after you meet them.
A filled bath also makes a handy dip for anyone not mucking in properly.
He called it "shandy," and I felt as though the lemon soda was being punished. NPR Topics: News
Next thing you know, my bathtub drain clogged and, being an unhandy single head of household with a knack for networking with all manner of service pros, I picked up the phone to call my plumber, who'd previously told me never to use Draino on antique pipes in an old house. Janet Carlson: Popular Mechanics: A Modern Woman's Heartthrob
Level headed, a capable bushman, handy with a rifle and a natural with horses, Harry displayed all the attributes of the cream of Australia's youth.
Some claim that the term ‘Divan’ is an Arabized Persian word while AI-Kalkashandy argued that it is an Arabic word.
found a handy spot for the can opener
Eighteenth-century miniaturists were part of an industry of copyists who provided full-scale replicas for a range of residences and official sites or reduced life-size portraits to handy pocket-size miniatures.
In some of his trysts, he adopted the persona of his famous novel's protagonist; in a 1765 letter to "Lady P" he wrote, "There is a strange mechanical effect produced in [being] within a stonecast of the lady who engrosses the heart and soul of an inamorato - for this cause have I, Tristram Shandy, come forth from my lodgings to a coffee-house the nearest I could find to my dear Lady's house. APM: Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac RSS Feed
Have some horticultural fleece or old net curtain handy to drop over plants before frosty nights. The Sun
The mascara gave my lashes amazing volume and comes with a handy mirror - great for on the go. The Sun
Spreadsheet convert to values One useful trick that often comes in handy is to convert an entire spreadsheet to values.
A large sheet of horticultural fleece, ready for a cold is always handy to wrap around tender plants. The Sun
You take any random word, preferably BAYBEE, chant it a few hundred times whilst repeatedly thumping any handy hard surface, record it with some techno tweaking, and Bob's your uncle.
It also has a 'multiscreen' feature, allowing you to control two apps on the same screen - very handy for multitaskers. Times, Sunday Times
Boot space with the rear seats in place isn't brilliant, although there is a handy underfloor storage compartment. Times, Sunday Times
Centenaries were always handy opportunities for reassessment. The Times Literary Supplement
Have a towel handy to wipe wet faces. The Sun
She found a handyman who put up bookshelves made of green, unaged timber, which she knew would warp and sag. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
It sounds like a handy location, but there's a drawback.
Clearly Ricky Swallow is very handy with a chisel.
If you want to try a craft you can buy supplies, with expert craftspeople on hand to pass out handy hints.
Wake up dull skin with this handy little tool. The Sun
I was afterward to learn, and also, as I was to learn, a handy thing to clutch hold of with one hand whilst you clouted with the other when an argument went beyond words. Chapter 15
He puts on the toniest accent he can muster, while the other guests drop names 'like a handyman scattering rawl-plugs'. The Times Literary Supplement
They become ‘unhandy’ and in this unhandiness they fail to serve the function that they had served so inconspicuously up to that point.
If I run out they will come in handy. The Sun
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The Rotate button spins the display into a portrait format, which can be very handy when you're reading a long document.
Don't throw that cardboard box away it may come in handy.
GOOOOODDDDD DAAAAMMMM ITS WARM TODAY FELLOW DEFENDERS OF THE REALM!!!!!! however i am now nursing a nice lager shandy (off duty of course, im not in CID) and sat in the shade. meanwhile up north today i had to stifle mirth (not very succesfully) as we placed a ‘regular service user’ into a cell. as i left him and came home i hear he was still kicking off about how stifling his cell is … … .. clearly the systems failed him and i feel absolutely dreadful for him … … …. no honestly i do … … … … on July 1, 2009 at 7: 42 pm | Reply Olivers Army Police Body Armour Heatwave Shock! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Credit cards can be handy-they mean you do not have to carry large sums of cash.
Those qualities would be handy now as the banks continue to hoard cash rather than lend it. Times, Sunday Times
Quickly flicking the C stick down will activate the gadget, and it often comes in quite handy while scouting for enemy soldiers.
For instance, one of the overhead cubby holes was grooved to form a CD-rack, which was very handy and would have been even more so had the car come with a CD player.
Handy was obviously little interested in nosological categories; most of the inmates were described as maniacs. The Mad Among Us
It is set in a health farm run by a targe, whose handyman is an amiable drunk.
If an axe handle was handy, that wouldn't go astray, either.
Dave, That little carbine is a handy little gun for it intended purpose. Imagine This: If old guns could talk, what stories would they tell us?
Drink spirits and mixers, or bottled concoctions, or shandy.
Keep a wire brush handy for this purpose and rub down the grill after finishing your cooking.
All this comes in handy for his job in advertising. Times, Sunday Times
As for things I can’t live without …. mac eye shadows and lip gloss .. touche eclat is a must for the ‘ol under eye bags .. and I always keep tea tree oil handy for spots. The Beauty Products I can’t live without « Bored Mommy
GOODBYE summer - but hello handy rain mac. The Sun
Random Trivia: "Benriner" means "oh, how handy!" in Japanese, despite the fact that the Japanglish on the box front proclaims "Dry cut radishes also OK. Serious Eats
As you are painfully aware, when it comes to being handy, I can barely work a shower curtain.
Some time later he went to a church-builder in the same place, and under the architect's direction became handy at restoring the dilapidated masonries of several village churches round about. Jude the Obscure
Navios Holdings has options to acquire three of the 17 chartered-in vessels currently in operation within the next two years (one Capesize, and two Ultra-Handymaxes) and eight of the ten long-term chartered-in vessels on order (on two of the 11 purchase options Navios Holdings holds a 50% initial purchase option). The Earth Times Online Newspaper
Eugenides lets us know he knows what we know about the fictiveness of fiction; he even evokes "Tristram Shandy's" digressive account of the narrator's own conception. The Gender Blender
This is a handy little quick read for anyone that is studying teaching English as a second language or anyone just interested in differing cultures. Look at Me When I Talk to You: ESL Learners in Non-ESL Classrooms, Second Edition « Books « Literacy News
Students heading back to start their new term at university are being given handy reminders of the warning signs of meningitis.
Look, the big box actually contained lots of smaller boxes, Russian matryoshka style … and the last one contained a Swiss army knife the kid had bought for himself, thanks to mum's handy one-click Amazon account. Everything will be better next year!
So, as you build your computer data backup system, be sure to document your test procedures into handy checklists.
Her expertise will come in handy for a company not unused to the odd legal tussle. Times, Sunday Times

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