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Example sentences for "handles"

Lexicographically close words:
handlebars; handled; handleless; handler; handlers; handless; handleth; handling; handlings; handloom
  1. They knew the handles of contributors to LoD Tech Journal, and were likely to have learned their craft through LoD boards and LoD activism.

  2. During the next period we find the heavy boulder-stones, unhewn blocks fitted with handles and probably used at shorter distances, 70 or 80 lb.

  3. By moving the agitator handles from side to side whenever the latrine is used all solid matter is brought in contact with the Kaustine solution and decomposed.

  4. Small deep circular baskets with handles reaching from side to side.

  5. Wooden board with two handles at lower end, painted with two dancing figures, with joined hands, and other ornaments.

  6. Either one of two handles on the back of a piece of ordnance.

  7. One of the handles which project from a scythe snath; also, [Prov.

  8. My grandfather found himself seated in the middle of the floor, with the clothes-press sprawling before him, and the two handles jerked off and in his hands.

  9. Because now as I understand it the same committee handles the supplemental.

  10. The laboratory division handles all examinations of a scientific nature, and the domestic intelligence division handles all types of security work.

  11. We rigged a sort of rope harness to the truck, giving Tom the handles to steer by, while Old Dibs, Sarah, and me did tandem in front.

  12. The fellow handles a spade as if it was the first time he had ever had one in his hand.

  13. And here, we think the most partial critic will be scarcely disposed to deny, that he sometimes handles his knife a little at random and with too much severity.

  14. To provide silver-plated handles of the very best description, ornamented with angels' heads from the most expensive dies.

  15. But such is the magic of genius, which changes all it handles into gold!

  16. It is a good thing to have the handles of tools made of different colored woods, as it assists the carver in picking them out quickly from those lying ready for use.

  17. Birds, beasts, and flowers are as familiar to him as the tools with which he works, or the scent and touch of the solid oak he handles daily.

  18. The handles of knives should never be immersed in water, as, after a time, if treated in this way, the blades will loosen and the handles discolor.

  19. While Origen handles the subject like a metaphysician, Augustine handles it like a statesman.

  20. Often the spectators have sticks in their hands and all strike at once upon pieces of wood, or upon hatchet handles which they have before them, or upon their ouragans; that is to say, upon their bark plates turned upside down.

  21. It also handles other mails when necessary to transfer them between cars or trains.

  22. The express company unloads and handles its own matter.

  23. Consequently Honorius handles his allegories more easily, and makes a more natural human application of them, than Rabanus or Walafrid had done.

  24. It is otherwise with philosophy, which handles not only the truth of morals, but the true, speculatively considered.

  25. When the tank was full and sturdy arms were working the long handles up and down, there was a steady clank-clank to the pump, and a stream could be thrown for some distance.

  26. In less than three minutes from the time they had the engine in place, the boys at the handles could pump water, so quickly was the tank partly filled.

  27. Sometimes those working the handles stood on the ground, or, in case of a large engine, like the one the boys had purchased, on top of the water tank.

  28. It was also difficult to operate the pump, for the engine did not set level, and the boys on top of the tank had to cling there as best they could and send the big handles up and down.

  29. These handles were quite long, and usually there were two of them, arranged something like those on a hand-car, used by construction gangs on a railroad.

  30. When he has finished eating, he should lay his knife and fork close together, side by side, with handles toward the right side of his plate, the handles projecting an inch or two beyond the rim of the plate.

  31. Infinitely rather have every ornament of glass or china--and if knives and forks have crevices in the design of their handles that are hard to clean, buy plain plated ones, or use tin!

  32. But the corresponding passage of the Wealth of Nations handles the question more cautiously.

  33. Cairnes handles the theory of the normal case in economic life with a master hand.

  34. I am the only left-handed man in the traffic department, but the man that handles the rebates, Jimmie Black, is cross-eyed.

  35. I think Mr. Lee handles trains shockingly every time George tries to get home like this on Saturday nights--now don't you?


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