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Example sentences for "handling"

Lexicographically close words:
handler; handlers; handles; handless; handleth; handlings; handloom; handmade; handmaid; handmaiden
  1. In handling broken antennæ it is best to use a fine sable pencil, which may be moistened very lightly by applying it to the tip of the tongue.

  2. In handling mounted specimens it is well always to take hold of the pin below the specimen with the forceps, and insert it into the cork by the pressure of the forceps.

  3. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any other textual issues encountered during its preparation.

  4. This calcium hydroxide is a substance which is very caustic, and care must be exercised in handling it.

  5. Extreme care and attention is required to keep the balance on the right side of the ledger, and often the proper handling of the by-products forms the deciding factor between success and failure.

  6. Among them will be the quantity of his output, the facilities for handling it in any specified manner, the demand for different finished products to be made therefrom, etc.

  7. In order to make a wise selection of the method of handling the different by-products the manufacturer must take into consideration many factors.

  8. It might perhaps be well to state that propagation, handling of the plants from the seed bed to the plantation, culture, etc.

  9. He was uneducated, and had neither experience of nor training for the strategical handling of great armies.

  10. Logging on the Pacific Coast is characterized by the use of powerful machinery and by extreme skill in handling enormous weights.

  11. The handling of the funds is always a danger point in all working class movements.

  12. Moreover, the system used by many internationals in handling their organizers was wrong.

  13. Great care must be taken in handling neteen to preserve the shape, as it is very easily stretched and pulled out of shape while sewing on the edge wire.

  14. TO PIECE BRAID-- Sometimes a braid must be pieced at a conspicuous point on the hat, when careful handling will be found necessary.

  15. Steam shovels, automatic loaders and unloaders, dynamite and blasting powder, have taken the place of brawn and muscle, which is now mostly expended in directing and guiding mining machinery rather than in actually handling the ore.

  16. In this molding a great amount of time was wasted in the slow process of cooling, and a large expenditure of energy wasted in this handling and re-handling of the metal.

  17. The mantle is now ready for use, but is so fragile that it can scarcely be touched without breaking, and such handling as would be necessary for shipment would be out of the question.

  18. At these centres, slaughter houses and meat-packing houses of stupendous magnitude have been developed, capable of handling millions of animals in a year.

  19. It has special utility where it is desirable to apply power intermittently, as in various parts of a dockyard, or in handling guns and ammunition on shipboard.

  20. Do not toss over the cards in the card receiver, if there be one, and, while your name is being announced, do not wander impatiently around the room handling everything within reach.

  21. Nowhere has Espronceda shown greater virtuosity in the handling of meter.

  22. Nowhere else has the poet shown equal virtuosity in the handling of unusual meters.

  23. He is remarkable for his virtuosity, his harmonious handling of the most varied meters.

  24. So far as clothing is concerned the rule should be that those handling infected materials have a special uniform[22] which is cleaned and disinfected after the day's work is done.

  25. So I confined my dealings to men, and I found so much joy in handling and mastering men that my eyes became closed to the fact that life could offer me anything else.

  26. He privately regards Trades Unions as an antiquated drag upon the wheels of that chariot at the tail of which he hopes one day to see Capital led captive, gentlemen like Mr Tom Winch handling the reins and plying the whip.

  27. Shaw approached the table and began to help himself, handling the bottles in profound silence and with exaggerated caution, as if he had been measuring out of fragile vessels a dose of some deadly poison.

  28. Several reasons contributed to this abandonment and, no doubt, the first of them was the growing sense of general difficulty in the handling of the subject.

  29. His hands were heavy, his force irresistible, though he himself imagined he was handling her gently.

  30. The difficulties and pitfalls are incalculable; from start to finish the glass obeys no fixed laws, but answers only to the skilled handling of the scientist and craftsman.

  31. This is especially the case in certain Filling Factories, where immunity from ill-effects from the handling of T.

  32. The femininity of the worker has, however, its drawbacks, and for the sake of successful handling of women in the munitions factory, it is as well that these psychological points should be noted.

  33. There the girls learn almost every part of aircraft production, from the handling of the tiny hammers used on the woodwork for the body and wings, to the assembling, or putting together the tested parts.

  34. Bath-rooms are available, as well as a generous supply of towels, and face ointment, or powder, are supplied as preventatives to any ill effects from handling explosives.

  35. The girl weighed, perhaps, one hundred and twenty pounds, and the trunk itself another fifteen or twenty, and handling that amount of weight was a mere joke to Wilkins.

  36. A conservative handling of National policies, or a radical one was the question in each case.

  37. These animals require most careful handling and a thorough comprehension of their individual characteristics.

  38. Quite as much tact and forbearance are needed in the handling of horses as in handling children.

  39. In handling it one is afraid of crushing it between the fingers.

  40. Now the dead bee retains for some minutes the reflex use of the sting, as I know to my cost: for removing the bee too soon from the aggressor, and handling it carelessly, I have received a most effectual sting.

  41. On one of his winter passages to Europe he found the sailors suffering extremely from handling frozen ropes, as they were not provided with mittens.

  42. Handling a case of death in these conversations is simplicity itself.

  43. He again took over the stick, being desirous of handling the ship when later on they reached the river post and started to drop down on the stream for a stop-over, long or short, neither of them knew just then.

  44. Yes, I called Captain Fritz once or twice in an effort to see if they were handling it or if the chief was handling it, or if homicide--Captain Fritz was handling it.

  45. I don't recall the exact conversation there other than the fact that I had asked him if he was handling it and he said, "No.

  46. And do you mean that the normal method for handling would be one where he would be brought to the elevator to the jail office, and into the basement?

  47. Of course, we are not experienced in handling this sort of a prisoner.

  48. Before that, had you been told by Chief Stevenson when he instructed you to go down to the Commerce Street ramp and make arrangements for the handling of the armored truck---- Captain JONES.

  49. It was just a normal, routine day, as far as our work was concerned, handling the juvenile prisoners and checking those beeves that we had assigned to us.

  50. He said I should talk to Chief Curry, that he was handling the transfer.

  51. But they saved it by skillful, swift handling from a capsize.

  52. With as much care now as if he were handling eggs, Ram lowered the final cylinder of dynamite into the hole.

  53. He selected a number of these, handling them with no more apparent care than if they had been tins of tomatoes, instead of charges of dynamite.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "handling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accomplishment; achievement; action; administration; agency; authority; care; caressing; charge; command; commission; completion; conduct; control; direction; discharge; dispatch; driving; employment; enactment; execution; exercise; feeling; fingering; friction; functioning; government; guardianship; guidance; handling; husbandry; implementation; lead; leading; management; manipulation; occupation; operation; ordering; oversight; performance; performing; petting; pilotage; practice; pressure; regulation; responsibility; rubbing; running; service; steering; stewardship; supervision; touching; transaction; treatment; usage; work; working; workings