How To Use Long-handled In A Sentence
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The 3rd Division prisoner by a series of processes and with the aid of a long-handled polisher, first swept, then beeswaxed, then polished the wooden floor.
Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences
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When all the cornmeal is added, begin stirring with a long-handled wooden spoon.
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The coffee is made individually in small, long-handled pots.
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Although a pressure washer is more efficient in removal of dirt and debris, scrubbing the inside with a long-handled broom and a mild soap is acceptable.
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A sprayer can be used, but some deck experts prefer to use a long-handled painting pad on decking, and painting ‘mitts’ or a brush on railings and balusters.
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When all the snow was thrown out that could be reached with the long-handled snowshovels a rude windlass was made, and then the leather baglike bucket was brought into requisition, and the work went on as fast as it was possible to haul up the snow and have it dragged away on the dog-sleds.
Winter Adventures of Three Boys
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Long-handled battle-axes might be used instead of swords, particularly in open combat.
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Using long-handled tongs, he holds the metal in the forge until it heats to a dull red or straw color, then quickly moves it to the anvil.
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After washing the cervix with antiseptic solution, the clinician will place a tenaculum a long-handled, slender instrument on the cervix.
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES
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In the deep archway were guards, dressed in brocaded and puffed suits, their long-handled spears beside them – who sat and threw dice.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This term for a long-handled gardening tool can also be an immoral pleasure-seeker.
CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2009
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Now baste the turkey very thoroughly with a long-handled spoon, then return it to the oven for a further 30-45 minutes to finish browning - give it as much basting as you can during this final cooking period.
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She has attached herself to it by a long-handled pruner and is trying to summon up enough leverage to cut the recalcitrant branch, while chatting non-stop.
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We used long-handled hoes with heavy heads that we kept razor sharp, but it was still slow work.
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His normal gait, more a lazy stroll than an upright walk, was even more exaggerated by the long-handled loads he appeared to be toting in each hand.
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Ron Vecchio , who runs a Long Island cleanup business called Minesweepers, agrees that a sweep-through with the old-school shovel and long-handled dustpan is indispensable, even though his company uses backpack blowers to try and get the job done faster.
Down and Dirty: Cleaning After Geese
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If we no longer understand a word they are saying, then we may want to turn to those still willing to call a ‘spade’ a spade rather than a ‘fabricated long-handled domestic or industrial spatulate tool designed to lift and move material from one place to another’.
Archive 2008-03-09
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Besides the radio, he had acquired a large toolbox packed with tools, two rifles, a shotgun, several boxes of ammunition, a long-handled axe, a crowbar, and a first-aid kit.
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A man started toward Rubenstein with a long-handled scythe and Rourke shouted, "Watch out!" then started to bring the Python out of the Ranger cammie holster on his pistol belt.
The Nightmare Begins
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Using a stiff long-handled brush, scrub the stain with concentrated detergent suds.
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An outdoor game in which the players drive wooden balls through a series of wickets using long-handled mallets.
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In a sandy field of half-grown cassava plants, a group of 30 farmers were fighting a plague of locusts with long-handled weeding hoes and improvised brushes.
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Mike Sudal/The Wall Street Journal Disposable long-reach butane lighters • Disposable long-reach butane lighters—perfect for candles and fireplaces—and a long-handled brass candle snuffer to extinguish flames.
Ask Teri
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A long-handled spoon helps to savour the foodstuff in small and leisurely mouthfuls, in true connoisseur's style.
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I assume that meant that he was making peels, long-handled wooden tools used by bakers to load and unload bread from ovens.
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The guy with a long-handled putter is also a long hitter and traditionally plays Augusta well.
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Reaching under the kitchen counter, I bring up the electric juicer (some argue that an old-fashioned long-handled squeezer is best, but I like the way mine reverses itself under my hand as I push down, to get every last glorious drop).
Letters from Mexico -norange, anyone?
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The patrons' tables are constantly resupplied with clear, cool, tart pomegranate juice and hot, flat white bread extracted with long-handled wooden spatulas from the ovens through openings in the walls.
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There's a state-of-the art tripod burner (made somewhere like Norway, where they know about these things) and an armoury of long-handled implements for the boy scout in your life and – and I'm my mother's daughter on this – there's everything the fussiest glamper could demand: a wood-burning outdoor shower (it takes 45 minutes to heat up – but, hey, what's the rush?); organic products; and compost loo cabins with chirpy (and possibly unnecessary) instructions.
My romantic break… in a horsebox
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Using long-handled tongs, he holds the metal in the forge until it heats to a dull red or straw color, then quickly moves it to the anvil.
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She motioned with one hand, pointed to the long-handled candlesnuffer which (we assumed) had been in the room since before the candelabra had been electrified.
Orphans of Chaos
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He opens a tub and, using a long-handled hook, picks up a classic black and brown diamond-patterned rattler.
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He plunged the streaked and sticky glasses into hot water, set them on a dripping grating to dry, turned on this faucet of sizzling soda, that of rich slow syrup, beat up the contents of glasses with his long-handled spoon, slipped them into tarnished nickelled frames, and slid them deftly before the waiting boys and girls.
Martie, the Unconquered
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For no apparent reason I had decided when packing my boat that a long-handled boathook might be useful in the mid-Atlantic, and now its moment had come.
Rowing the ATLANTIC
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Fortunately most boatyards pressure wash the bottom as soon as they haul the boat, and many will also knock off hard growth with a long-handled scraper.
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Use a long-handled shoehorn if you have trouble putting on shoes.
