Use handle in a sentence
Sentences ending with handle
- Now, in relation to my not having said anything about the quotation from the Chicago speech: he thinks that is a terrible subject for me to handle. [7]
- He knows a thing or two for a millionaire that don't have to work, and he runs that place of his right up to the handle. [9]
- Wilson noticed that there were fingerprints on the knife's handle. [5]
- Compare it with the assassin's signature upon the knife handle. [5]
- As Lopez stood still with folded arms, paying no heed to his command, he turned the spear, to strike him with the handle. [10]
- The glass and silver was all of a special pattern, and an obsequious waiter handed Honora a menu in a silver frame, with a handle. [9]
- Stepping cautiously from one foot to the other she ran like a kitten the few steps to the door and grasped the cold door handle. [2]
- Particularly a rope of great diamonds, a lovely thing to look at and handle. [5]
- He turned the handle. [11]
- It is a common saying of a jockey, that he is "all horse"; and I have often fancied that milkmen get a stiff, upright carriage, and an angular movement of the arm, that remind one of a pump and the working of its handle. [6]
Short sentences using handle
- Oh, I can handle them. [9]
- I can handle a rifle. [11]
Sentences containing handle two or more times
- She had not heard the handle of the door of her bedroom turn, but the handle of the door of this room. [11]
More example sentences with the word handle in them
- The sweet violet you inclosed came safely to hand, but it was so dry, and mashed so flat, that it crumbled to dust at the first attempt to handle it. [7]
- Without saying a word Rostopchin rose and walked hastily to his light, luxurious drawing room, went to the balcony door, took hold of the handle, let it go again, and went to the window from which he had a better view of the whole crowd. [2]
- From the time when he could barely handle tools until he attained his majority, Lincoln's life was that of a simple farm laborer, poorly clad, housed, and fed, at work either on his father's wretched farm or hired out to neighboring farmers. [7]
- You've seen how we have to handle them, in this election and--in other matters. [9]
- So then they washed their faces in the river; and just then there was a loud order to stand by for a crossing, and some of them went forward to man the sweeps there, and the rest went aft to handle the after-sweeps. [5]
- So Washington's mind was in a state of turmoil; there were more interests at stake than it could handle with serenity. [5]
- Not he; but virtue passed through the hem of their parchment and leather garments whenever he touched them, as the precious drugs sweated through the bat's handle in the Arabian story. [6]
- It is a very thoughtless thing to say that the physician stands to the divine in the same light as the divine stands to the physician, so far as each may attempt to handle subjects belonging especially to the other's profession. [6]
- You handle yourself very carefully, all the time, under the silly impression that if it is not falling, your trifling weight will start it unless you are particular not to "bear down" on it. [5]
- Nothing is more unwieldy than our big blanket-sheets: they are awkward to handle, inconvenient to read, unhandy to bind and preserve. [4]
- He knelt, and unclasped his father's fingers from the handle of the sword. [11]
- I think the Trust will be handed down like the other papacy, and will always know how to handle its limitless cash. [5]
- I think the Trust will be handed down like Me other Papacy, and will always know how to handle its limitless cash. [5]
- For Heaven's sake train him in something, so that he can handle himself, and have free and confident use of his powers. [4]
- It was beautiful to see Joan handle the foils, but the old man was a bad failure. [5]
- I should like to read you a passage here and there out of it, where I have expressed myself a little more freely on some of those matters we handle in conversation. [6]
- We warned Ollendorff to keep his wits about him and handle himself carefully, but it was useless; the moment the bow touched the bank, he made a spring and the canoe whirled upside down in ten-foot water. [5]
- The Egyptians appear to have handled these huge monoliths as our artisans handle hearthstones and doorsteps, for the land actually bristled with such giant columns. [6]
- It is needless to handle this subject, for Mr. Lowell has written upon it. [6]
- She knows how to handle the ribbons, though. [4]
- He knows how to handle men; I'll say that for him. [11]
- When you come to handle life and death as your daily business, your memory will of itself bid good-by to such inmates as the well-known foramina of the sphenoid bone and the familiar oxides of methyl-ethylamyl-phenyl-ammonium. [3]
- He'll know how to handle him. [9]
- How is one to handle an opponent who praises one with a delightful irony? [9]
- Now, that is the way to handle Eckert. [5]
- Both parties handle the same materials, but the Baconians seem to me to get much more reasonable and rational and persuasive results out of them than is the case with the Shakespearites. [5]
- Count Markov was the only man who knew how to handle him. [2]
- Everybody talked about the new wonder, canvassed the theme of her proposed discourse, and marveled how she would handle it. [5]
- The maladies of the larynx are very ticklish things to handle, and nobody should be trusted to go behind the epiglottis who has not the tactus eruditus. [6]
- She had seen the Gaul quit the court during the time of evening-prayer with a few soldiers, two of whom carried after him a huge coffer, out of which rose the handle of a mighty cauldron, and a skin full of water, and various vessels. [10]
- The handle on the end of the Trunk has evidently been retouched--I think, with a piece of chalk --but one can still see the inspiration of the Old Master in the tranquil, almost too tranquil, hang of it. [5]
- The physician in the Arabian Nights made his patient play at ball with a bat, the hollow handle of which contained drugs of marvellous efficacy. [6]
- We all feel that there is a crack in the teacup, and are disposed to handle it carefully. [6]
- And a holiday that takes on such proportions that the Express companies and the Post-office cannot handle it is in danger of a collapse. [4]
- You know well that one man can't handle the boat and the nets also. [11]
- At last he struck the door so heavily with the handle of his dagger that the whole house echoed with the sound. [10]
- He saw his son turn and walk to the door, and turn again with his handle on the knob, and Hilary did not move. [9]
- He has had some reason to know that I can handle a ship. [9]
- Turning the handle softly, she stepped inside. [11]
- At last, however, she gave the final turn to the handle, and every screw was in its place, its top level and smooth with the iron of the cross. [11]
- The handle is seven and a half feet long. [4]
- He did not seem to be getting hold of his pitcher by the right handle, somehow. [6]
- He could not see into the cave, for the space in which the bed stood was closed at the end by the narrow passage which formed the entrance, and which joined it at an angle as the handle of a scythe joins the blade. [10]
- The convention is scarcely thirty-six hours off, and Hilary is about as fit to handle it as--as Eben Fitch. [9]
- In the horny right hand was a defiant pike-pole, its handle thrust forward, its steel spike stabbing the ground. [11]
- His right hand rests on his hip, and his left grasps the handle of his sword. [4]
- All this must react on the minds which handle these forms of truth. [6]
- With all this prosperity in the country we can't handle the freight. [9]
- The instructions were prepared very carefully, and after Governor Fish and I had gone over them for the last time I wrote an addendum charging him that above all things he should handle the subject of the Alabama claims with the greatest delicacy. [6]
- Always handle any positively electrical body, whether it is charged with passion or power, with some non-conductor between you and it, not with your naked hands. [6]
- A man that pays his bills reg'lar, in good money, and knows how to handle a hoss is three quarters of a gentleman, if he is n't a whole one,--and most likely he is a whole one. [6]
- Indeed, the law of the United States forbade him to listen to commands or suggestions, rightly considering that the pilot necessarily knew better how to handle the boat than anybody could tell him. [5]
- The long fingers of the man with the white beard clove to the knife like a dead soldier's to the handle of a sword. [11]
- Gripping the handle of my tomahawk, I prayed for guidance in my stroke, for the blade might go wild in the darkness. [9]
- He had, however, no idea how skilfully Carnac would handle the situation--yet he had heard much of his brother's adaptability. [11]
- Mr. Bernard had never heard of the power, or, at least, the belief in the possession of a power by certain persons, which enables them to handle these frightful reptiles with perfect impunity. [6]
- As for me, my temper had flared up like the burning of a loose charge of powder, and by instinct my right hand sought the handle of the mate's hanger. [9]
- I answered as my readings of the champions of my side of the great controversy had taught me to answer: that a man can't handle glibly and easily and comfortably and successfully the argot of a trade at which he has not personally served. [5]
- It entered into my original plan to treat of the doctrine relating to Psora, or itch,--an almost insane conception, which I am glad to get rid of, for this is a subject one does not care to handle without gloves. [3]
- They wouldn't handle money which I had soiled, and I wouldn't trust them with it, anyway. [5]
- My old gentleman means to be Mayor or Governor or President or something or other before he goes off the handle, you'd better b'lieve. [6]
- It's a difficult matter for England to handle, as you can see. [11]
- It is fascinating material, this mica, to handle, and we amused ourselves by experimenting on the thinness to which its scales could be reduced by splitting. [4]
- That same strange man, who was my right good friend, had ere now taught me to handle a falcon, and I could help my uncle to teach my friend the art. [10]
- It'll do a lot of good, but how in hell are you going to handle Judd?.... [9]
- It had a long slender handle, which took apart for packing, and was put together with the greatest ease. [6]
- The latter had long known that the unusual favor the king showed the artist was an abomination, not only to the heads of the Holy Inquisition, but also to the ambassadors and court dignitaries, yet Moor's quiet, stainless life afforded no handle for attack. [10]
- Instead of the little knobs of the electric bells, a so-called "bell-rope," about the width of one's hand, provided with a brass or metal handle, hung beside the doors. [10]
- Now we were light-manned, two half-breeds and two Canadians to handle the oars in time of peril, and Captain Xavier, who stood aft on the cabin roof, leaning against the heavy beam of the long, curved tiller, watching hawklike for snag and eddy and bar. [9]
- I'd jest 'z lieves handle them creaturs as so many striped snakes. [6]
- And they've been just a little afraid that they couldn't handle him if the time ever came. [9]
- Be this as it may, Quilp gave him no time for correction, as he performed that office himself by more than tapping him on the head with the handle of his umbrella. [12]
- The handle of it cuts and the blade doesn't. [6]
- He felt the instinct to handle the larger interests of society. [6]
- But at the instant when it seemed that the incomprehensible was revealing itself to her a loud rattle of the door handle struck painfully on her ears. [2]
- He had been in trouble before in his lifetime; he drew out the pistol, and passed it, handle first, to three fingers stretched out from the dark lantern. [11]
- If there is, I am willing to handle him professionally. [6]
- I never knew how to handle her, but we grew like flint and steel. [9]
- Suddenly Poulsson dropped his handle, causing the boat to swing round in the stream, while the men damned him. [9]
- We couldn't handle him, of course; he would a flung us into Illinois. [5]
- Go along and help handle the baggage. [5]
- But, you see, he has a fortune which, as yet, he has never been able to handle for himself; and I do it for him. [11]
- With fair opportunity he could swear very well and handle his adjectives with considerable judgment; but when the spasm was on him it was painful to listen to him, he was so awkward. [5]
- He tried the handle, and the door opened. [11]
- You do certainly handle your Rangers like an expert, General. [5]
- Jump out, Watling--that handle turns the other way. [9]
- She saw the handle turn, and she slipped the letter inside the portfolio again. [11]
- He caught the handle to turn it, when there came the noise of loud talking, and the sound of footsteps in the court-yard. [11]
- He tried the handle of the door. [11]
- Billy turned the handle of the door. [11]
- She turned the handle of the door softly, and opened it. [11]
- Softly turning the handle of the big wooden doors which faced him, he opened them an inch or so, and listened. [11]
- It has a handle like that of a gimlet, with a claw like a hammer, to lift with, I suppose, which last contrivance I do not see figured in my books. [3]
- It takes a good deal of tact to handle such a little assembly as ours, which is a republic on a small scale, for all that they give me the title of Dictator, and Number Five is a great help in every social emergency. [6]
- If he thought Foyle needed him--his fingers were on the handle of the door. [11]
- They made a formidable parcel, but a little handle was supplied and the rector hurried out, swinging himself on a Tower Street car. [9]
- Hannah dropped the fork, the handle of the frying pan and crossed the room swiftly, seizing Janet by the shoulders. [9]
- Wilson examined the finger marks on the knife handle and said to himself, "Neither of the twins made those marks. [5]
- A peasant was drawing water at the pump, and the handle made a noise; a priest chatted with three French ladies who had come over from a neighbouring seaside resort. [9]
- The well-known old door handle, which always angered the countess when it was not properly cleaned, turned as loosely as ever. [2]
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