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Example sentences for "handier"

Lexicographically close words:
handicaps; handicraft; handicrafts; handicraftsman; handicraftsmen; handiest; handily; handiness; handing; handis
  1. It was in neat piles, anyway, and that made it handier to get at.

  2. A successful bee-handier seems to be born, not made.

  3. It is handier for you to have them there when you go to the whale fishing?

  4. Do you think it is handier to make a settlement once a year and go to Voe for your goods?

  5. Sometimes it is much handier for them to get them from me than to go to Reawick for them; and when I know the crew will pay me, I supply them to them.

  6. Yes, it was handier for him to live near the place where he was fishing.

  7. You think that is handier than getting them put down into an account?

  8. Would it not be handier for you to get your goods there?

  9. But the smaller boats, when the weather permits, are much handier and lighter to manage.

  10. Sorra handier boy iver it was my luck to meet with!

  11. The English seamen greatly outnumbered the Spanish seamen, utterly surpassed them in seamanship, and enjoyed the further advantage of having far handier vessels to work.

  12. There was a room going to waste, he said, and I would be handier for the early and late billiard sessions.

  13. I did not need the sash, but it was handier to take it than to leave it, and so I took it.

  14. It is handier than one would suppose; even a farthing can be paid in it by putting one or two grains upon a knife-tip, and there is a name, peseha (Port.

  15. The fellow is handier than his southern brother: he can mend a wheel, make a coffin, or cut your hair.

  16. Tain't no handier than this way," said Philetus, with so much belligerent demonstration that the landlady thought best in presence of her guests to give over the question.

  17. It's more handier to leave the sugarin' off till the next day; and it had ought to have a settlin' besides.

  18. If one hadn't to do so much cutting every now and then, they'd be a long sight handier than raising stock.

  19. It's handier in shallow water and the ducks seem to be a long way up.

  20. She 's handier at sewin' than what I am, still.

  21. I'd write her off a letter myself if writin' come handier to me.

  22. I'm gen'rally reckoned handier wid a foursome 'n a single team.

  23. Howard's policy was to take full advantage of the three factors that were on his side in the solution of the problem, better seamanship in his crews, better gunnery, and handier ships.

  24. Either he was the better pilot or his was the handier machine, because in a few seconds he had out-manœuvred them and driven them diving down ahead of him.

  25. Again, because he had the faster and handier machine, he secured an advantage, and whipping round astern of the scout and "sitting on his tail" drove him to escape his fire in a steep spin.

  26. Carbines are much handier for the porters than long rifles, though the askari can be armed with the latter.

  27. To complete the shooting kit, a pair of powerful binoculars, which are much handier than a telescope, is indispensable.

  28. Further, these small batteries are both handier and more mobile in themselves; they are, therefore, better suited to Cavalry requirements, and at the same time the power of concentration when such is required is fully retained.

  29. I found that a wooden tool-rest was not satisfactory, so I had to buy one, but they are inexpensive and much handier than homemade tool rest.

  30. There was room going to waste, he said, and it would be handier for the early and late billiard sessions.

  31. I did not need the sash, but it was handier to take it than to, leave it, and so I took it.

  32. Yes," said the dentist, "so you did; but I found that the front ones were kind of handier to get at.

  33. I suppose the reason your president called upon those of us nearest the platform to-night was because he found us a little handier to get at.

  34. This is just a preliminary talk; and when a dozen people meet to discuss, it's handier as a rule to have some one in the chair.

  35. Women are handier at picking up appearances; 'adaptable' 's the word.

  36. Pete Vanders would have found pine logs more tractable and handier to come by, and they would have outlasted his time; but, being a Dutchman, he had built solidly by instinct.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "handier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.