Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
handful
IPA transcription: [h'ændf,ʊl]
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
handful, smattering
Meaning:
a small number or amount; "only a handful of responses were received"
Synonyms:
handful, fistful
Meaning:
the quantity that can be held in the hand
Usage examples
Look!" and Leslie flourished a handful of bills.
Boil a small handful of hops in a couple of quarts of water.
Presently came Carthoris, accompanied by but a handful of his gentlemen.
She drew from her pocket a handful of coppers and dropped them into his grimy little palm.
Then a handful of twigs is dipped in water and weighted with stones, while a spell is chanted.
And she turned to fling a handful of barley at a belated group of guinea-fowl that came racing toward her.
Grognon took a little hammer, and struck "toc, toc," on the cask, from which there rolled out a handful of silver money.
A nation which can place a mere handful of its own citizens in the line of battle voluntarily dooms herself to destruction."
The work was not yet finished, but most of the crew were sleeping during the hot hours, while a handful had volunteered to complete the job.
She thought it might contain something to amuse her, and looked eagerly inside, but nothing was there save a handful of wool and two empty eggshells.