How To Use Hankie In A Sentence
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There were months of handwringing and hankie clutching and ‘how will we ever sleep again knowing that political activity took place in the People's House!’
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Just remember to have some hankies handy.
Times, Sunday Times
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I had 35 shillings wrapped up in a hankie in my mackintosh pocket.
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She dabs her eyes with a hankie, and pushes the shy girl toward our table.
ELVIS HAS LEFT THE CHITLIN STRUT • by Jeanne Holtzman
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Gone are the handkerchief codes of the seventies, where a hankie in the left pocket indicated a guy was a top, and the right indicated a bottom.
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She rummaged in her jewellery box, found the hankie mixed up with her gloves.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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Senator William Evatts who was noted as a long speaker was making his speech and dragging it out as usual when he stopped for a moment to sneeze, the boy thinking it was over waved the hankie and Bartholdi pulled the cord to release the flag.
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She had on long white gloves and a feather boa, as she sauntered onto the scene clutching her handkerchief she pretended to faint, and drop the hankie.
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A number of other women on the block were likewise kind, wiping my blood with white hankies.
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When I went to primary school, many aeons ago, the only kit required was a satchel, a gymslip and a clean hankie.
Back to school
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Are you wiping your screen with a hankie, unsure you read that right?
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He pointed to mugs, pens, paper hankies, the desk lamp, and calendar, all of which bore the trade names of antidepressants he had heard of.
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She would open the hankies every morning after her morning prayers and count out fifteen piles of eighteen cents, eighteen being the corresponding number to the Hebrew letters in the word chaff, meaning life.
My life as a woman
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My father comes out real slow in his black tuxedo with his little red silk hankie, takes his time "good evening ladies and gentlemen," and tells a long story, not afraid of the silences.
Thelma Adams: Bust a Hip -- Marlo Thomas Makes Us Fall Over Laughing
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Hence, you cannot "throw, drop or place" a used hankie "upon any public way or public place or upon the floor of any convenience or upon the floor of any theater, hall or assembly or public building or upon the surface or any lot or parcel of ground or on the roof on any building or in any light or air shaft, court or areaway.
Archive 2007-01-01
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She had on long white gloves and a feather boa, as she sauntered onto the scene clutching her handkerchief she pretended to faint, and drop the hankie.
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Ms. TALAN: Well, it came about from a few different sources, but one was, you know, those sort of old movies that were called weepies, where you could basically be guaranteed that if you needed a good cry, you could go and see one of these and bring your hankie and have a good time.
The Weepies: Beautiful Music Together
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Tuesday I toddled off to Textile Guild and worked on a couple of peplos and hemmed a linen hankie to embroider.
(Oh, and I still have a zombie eye)
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Ages 5+ The never-ending deluge of grubby hankies, horrid socks and grimy nightshirts imposed on the seven washerwomen by their skinflint employer pushes them to go on strike.
Recommended reads: ages 5–7
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I've worked my way through heaps of tissues and oversized hankies.
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But other factors contribute as well. Hankie says amid uncertainty and volatility in global stock markets, many investors have pulled pored money in commodities, such as oil. T.
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There are always mums in the audience wiping their eyes with hankies.
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The police found his body abandoned on a roadside with a red hankie blindfolding him.
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I bought a dozen or so, mostly hemstitched linen, hankies.
Archive 2008-04-01
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All you will be left with are hankies to wipe your tears.
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But you just want to sit here and give me a loving description of his character, and cry into my hankie.
THE INNOCENT
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At the three-hankie end of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," Francie Nolan and her kid brother look out from their tenement rooftop to the skyline of Manhattan.
From Dinaw Mengestu, A 'How To' With Few Answers
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Given the theme - children separated from their parents - Kindertransport could easily have been a multi-hankie weeper.
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But other factors contribute as well. Hankie says amid uncertainty and volatility in global stock markets, many investors have pulled pored money in commodities, such as oil. T.
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Some try their best to comfort you, hand you a tissue or hankie, trying to soothe you with some soft words. But then there are some who will hold you and hug you.
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Among those who will not be weeping into their hankies over his ‘resignation’ are the poor beggars in York he put out of work.
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From shopping receipts to hankies, napkins to the tiniest scraps of paper became handy as they literally mobbed the Hyderabadi beauty for her signature.
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Come on now, stop crying - blow your nose on my hankie.
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Grab a hankie, because the stench of hooey is going to get very strong, very fast.
Captains Hillstrand, Hillstrand & Hansen return to "Deadliest Catch," shocking no one
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He wore a gray suit with, unlike other board members, no pocket hankie.
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And while on the subject of handkerchiefs, Brodie Ross's Roderigo is the best ever – a hilarious wimp, blubbing into his soggy hankie, insisting on repeated hugs from Iago.
Othello; Grief; St Matthew Passion – review
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She was one of the girls who flirted her way through a hair-mussing group number with Steven as the muss-ee, but went to pieces in Vegas and ended up sobbing on the ladies room floor while an "Idol" camera crew stood by without so much as throwing her a hankie.
'American Idol' 2011: Top 24 survive the Trail of Tears
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With their white hankies, the Catalan fans seemed to be waving goodbye to the league title.
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Instead they twisted their little lace hankies like a couple of rich old biddies and sniffed and whimpered about how they don't agree with such tawdry sentiment.
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But then again, she wore girdles and kept monogrammed hankies and Devonshire toffees in her handbag.
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The hankie arrived, gently daubing at the corner of my eye, at the precise moment the first tear fell.
The Bird House
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Around this time of year it's the ‘I'd better do something or I'll never get into one of those sparkly knotted hankies that designers laughingly call party dresses’.
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Come on now, stop crying - blow your nose on my hankie.
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With the azan shrilling in the background, the curtain rose on the beautiful Kashmiri dancers holding basketfuls of yellow flowers and yellow hankies, moving in simple and sensuous formations.
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If that cover doesn't strike a chord then the first few pages of this amazing book most certainly will, and me and Andrew Marr (his Introduction that Stewart cleverly spotted is actually an Afterword) are both in snivelling uncontrollable 1950's (me 1953, he 1959) children's tears over it all, our hankies are wringing.
45 entries from March 2008
