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Example sentences for "handle"

Lexicographically close words:
handis; handiwork; handkercher; handkerchief; handkerchiefs; handlebars; handled; handleless; handler; handlers
  1. The fore-legs are represented by two large bosses, the wide-open mouth takes the place of the severed neck, and a handle connects the top of the rim with the back of the vessel.

  2. The handle being broken off and the vessel inverted, b, there is a decided change; we are struck by the resemblance to a frog or toad.

  3. You know, when this quiets down and cools off, we'll have more ore on the surface than we can handle in ten years, and more than we could have mined by ordinary means in fifty.

  4. His race horses were famous, and he delighted to handle them himself.

  5. The Commander's marvellous ability to handle men was shown by the entry made in his orderly book the next day, when he was back at Pennypacker's Mills.

  6. The handle was turning, the door was about to open.

  7. She stooped, touched a handle below the bed, and with incredible care and delicacy wound the little cripple up into a posture just enough tilted to enable her to feed herself.

  8. Then a touch upon the handle of the door startled him in a second from apathy.

  9. She ran along the terrace to meet him, intercepted him, shook hands as with the handle of a pump, shouted her chaff upon his change of attitude towards things feminine.

  10. Not only do I handle them myself, but I have induced many of my wild-eyed visitors to do so as a necessary part of their education.

  11. Still, I did not care to handle the wild and tormented thing on such short acquaintance, so I got a small barrel and quietly placed it over him, then removed the trap and brought him home, where he is now living in peace and comfort.

  12. Of course, her first impulse was revenge, but I was safe and those mounted men knew how to handle a cow.

  13. This tooth extractor had a handle about six inches long, and a sort of steel hook on the end, and it would draw the tooth, if the jawbone did not break.

  14. Fix the pencil in a hole bored through the ball, each handle of which is held by an experimenter.

  15. Meurice either holds the handle of the umbrella, or some one else does, whilst he simply touches the handle very lightly with his open palm.

  16. She looked back as she turned the handle of the heavy door.

  17. Betty let go of the handle and said indignantly, "I shan't fish any more.

  18. She ran on, nothing deterred by this discourtesy, and knocked at the door with the handle of her whip.

  19. Despicable,' said Ida, with her hand on the handle of the door.

  20. I can show you where he lives, as we pass; and, if that will do, we will now handle oars, and be on our way.

  21. The imperilled maiden uttered a cry of joy at the appearance of our voyagers, and held up the handle of a broken oar, to indicate to them at once the cause of her fearful dilemma and need of assistance.

  22. The handle of the telltale teaspoon was visible under the bed-valance.

  23. It must have taken all his nerve to turn the handle of the door.

  24. The handle turned noiselessly in his fingers, thanks to the precaution he had taken of oiling it, and he slipped outside.

  25. He stood, holding the handle of the door, which he had closed gently behind him, and looking with a certain sternness at the girl.

  26. Will throw in a cook stove and all the household furniture, consisting of a frying-pan handle and a broomstick; also a cow and a yearling calf; also one bay heifer; also 8400 lbs.

  27. Moreover, they must handle the beast tenderly, for it is easily injured.

  28. Wagner's scores are now before the world; and neither his widow nor his son can pretend to handle them with greater authority than any artist who feels the impulse to interpret them.

  29. True, they showed me how to handle English words; but if I had known no more than that, my works would never have crossed the Channel.

  30. Red and clotted, even the handle marked with bloody spots, the axe was theirs.

  31. Tall, straight, handsome he sat in the boat, fingering the oar-handle nervously.

  32. Mechanically he leaned forward to lace the stretcher-shoes, letting the handle of his oar rest against his stomach; mechanically he tried to slide, tested the oarlock.

  33. There's no way we can analyze it until we can handle it, and no way we can handle it until we can turn it off.

  34. The Inn has its own fleet of gasoline launches and row boats, with experienced men to handle them, and it supplies fishing-tackle free, but those who wish to use the rod must bring that with them.

  35. This makes the two difficult to handle in loading operations.

  36. Should she recover, the test can be easily applied, and we can judge then, how to handle the dilemma.

  37. I polished up that handle so carefullee That now I am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!

  38. I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor, And I polished up the handle of the big front door.

  39. But no, the handle was far out of my reach; and I groaned and wept at my helpless condition.

  40. So then I set to rattling away with my brush-handle to show as I was out, and then climbs down on to the roof, and begins looking about me.

  41. Grasp the handle of the pan in the right hand, placing the back of the hand underneath with the thumb pointing away from you.

  42. Make a slight incision with a knife through the middle of the omelet at right angles to the handle of the pan, and fold the omelet over upon itself away from the handle of the pan.

  43. When the knife and fork are used together, grasp the handle of the knife or fork with the first finger and the thumb so that the end of the handle touches the center of the palm of the hand.

  44. When the fork is held in the right hand and used for conveying such food as mashed potato to the mouth, its handle should be grasped by the thumb and first finger in somewhat the manner as a pen is held.

  45. If hot fat must be carried or lifted, wrap a towel about the hand before grasping the handle of the kettle.

  46. Donald entered the private office and found the red-faced man seated in a chair with his umbrella between his knees and a pair of ham-like fists clasping the handle of it.

  47. The fishing crew ship only to fish, handle sail, steer and keep watch.

  48. He was in shirt-sleeves and wore a hard bowler hat, and looked like a drygoods clerk, but he knew how to handle his craft.

  49. There'll be ten of us to handle her, and that's a good crowd for this hooker in any weather.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "handle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accomplish; air; alibi; analyze; apology; appellation; apply; attend; bed; behave; bestow; bilge; blind; blister; blob; boss; bow; break; bridle; brush; bubble; bulb; bulge; bump; bunch; button; byword; canvass; carry; chine; cloak; clump; cognomen; color; command; complete; conduct; condyle; consider; contrive; control; controvert; cope; cover; criticize; curry; deal; debate; deliberate; denomination; descant; designation; device; direct; discharge; discourse; discuss; dispatch; dominate; drench; drive; ear; employ; enact; engineer; epithet; examine; excuse; execute; exercise; exert; exploit; facade; feed; feel; feint; fiddle; field; finger; flange; flap; flick; fodder; fondle; front; gall; gentle; gloss; gnarl; govern; grasp; grip; groom; guide; guise; handle; harness; head; helm; hill; hitch; hold; honor; honorific; hump; hunch; investigate; job; knob; knot; label; lead; lip; litter; loop; lump; make; manage; maneuver; manipulate; market; mask; massage; meet; merchandise; milk; mole; mountain; name; namesake; navigate; nickname; nomen; nubbin; operate; order; oversee; palm; paw; peg; perform; pilot; play; ply; poke; practice; prescribe; preside; pretense; pretension; process; prod; protestation; quarterback; rap; reason; reckon; refuge; regulate; relate; remark; retail; review; rib; ridge; ring; run; saddle; screen; sell; semblance; shaft; sham; shoulder; show; sift; skipper; spine; stand; steer; steward; stock; stratagem; stud; study; style; subterfuge; supervise; survey; take; talk; tame; tap; tend; thumb; title; touch; traffic; train; transact; treasury; treat; trick; truck; tubercle; twiddle; use; utilize; varnish; veil; ventilate; vesicle; wale; wart; water; welt; wholesale; wield; work; yoke