Definition: 1. A small number or amount. 2. The quantity that can be held in the hand.
Use 'handful' in a sentence:
1. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone.
2. Only a handful of islands in the Southern Ocean are suitable for sustaining large breeding colonies.
3. Quite a lot, according to a handful of scientists quoted in the News Feature.
4. I bought a handful of perfectly ripe small strawberries and a little sweet melon.
5. I can't take this handful of nuts out of the jar.
6. We invited 30 people, but only a handful came.
7. Only a handful of people were dead set on following him.
8. Millions of waterfowl were killed at the hands of market hunters and a handful of overly ambitious sportsmen.
9. The little boy was a real handful. He was always up to mischief.
10. The date has only dipped into late March a handful of times in recorded history.
11. Only a handful had returned to work in the immediate vicinity.
12. Her children can be a real handful.
13. The two men examined the handful of coins.
14. He grabbed a handful of hair and jerked at it.
15. It's currently home to 2,500 people and all but a handful of them indigenous Inuit.
16. He was lifting up handfuls of leaves and throwing them at her. She was laughing and egging him on.
17. According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or Hispanic student---and only a handful of girls---has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence.
18. She brought a handful of rice out of the bag and showed it to me.
19. One spring morning a handful of potential investors assembled in Quincy.
20. In 1993, few corporations had a web page, and only a handful allowed one to order products or services online.
21. I'd taken a handful of uppers.
22. Beyond those books and a handful of newspaper clippings and magazine stories, winter has nothing.
23. A handful of lawsuits have been filed in recent years against companies accused of using misleading environmental labels.
24. By the time he was 15, Scott had gigged with a handful of well-known small bands.
25. Only a handful of people came.
26. Only a handful of patrons come to this theatre every day.
27. My little grandson is no trouble at all, but his 6-year-old sister is a handful.
28. The band are playing a handful of shows at smaller venues.
29. Won't they think us rather a handful?
30. A handful of junior officers were made to bear responsibility for the incident.
31. The first is a handful of ocular diseases like pigmentary glaucoma.
32. Race officials announced a handful of new sponsors on Tuesday.
33. Last October, while tending her garden in Mora, Sweden, Lena Pahlsson pulled out a handful of small carrots and was about to throw them away.
34. Retail prices for a handful of tomatoes at local markets have risen from$ 0. 50 to$ 2.50.
35. Tom grabbed up a handful of snow and shoved it down his sister's collar.
36. He put in his hand and pulled out a handful of gold coins.
37. Frank emptied a handful of loose change on the table.
38. A handful of onlookers stand in the field watching.
39. Only a handful of firms offer share option schemes to all their employees.
40. Dad answered, shaking a handful of greens.
41. People don't speak one universal language or even a handful.
42. They constitute but a handful of the number.
43. The little lad was a real handful. He was always up to mischief.
44. Argentina is one of only a handful of countries that refuse all dealings with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
45. She scooped up a handful of sand and let it trickle through her fingers.
46. He picked up a handful of dirt and threw it at them.
47. A handful of people can recall almost every day of their lives in enormous detail — and after years of research, neuroscientists are finally beginning to understand how they do it.
48. Zara can be a handful sometimes.
49. He surveyed the handful of customers at the bar.
50. She takes a handful of ash, the flakes are large and sticky.
