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also handsful
as in couples
a small number
only a handful of people signed up for the wintertime hike
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Recent Examples of handfuls
When cooking the sauce, add in frozen peppers and onions, corn, or even a few handfuls of baby spinach leaves.
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Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Mar. 2025
The ornithology curator at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County placed handfuls of feathers between two small screens and clipped them together with zip ties.
—Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025
Per tradition, the attendees threw three handfuls of fresh soil into the grave.
—Yurii Shyvala, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
Turing evidently helped himself to large handfuls of red forms, scrawling out screeds of notes about Delilah on the blank reverse sides.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 Feb. 2025
Then there are the shoes, the manure, even thousands of dollars in cash (which alert bystanders scooped up and ran off with handfuls, by the way).
—Jeff Kleinman, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2025
Just one or two handfuls a day should do the trick.
—Julie Marks, Verywell Health, 13 Dec. 2024
It has since been repurposed and republished by handfuls of content creators.
—Cory Mull, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
There’s a complete lack of self-consciousness in Mother’s wolfing down handfuls of meatloaf or playfully woofing at strangers in public, and that’s matched by what Adams is doing to bring this woman to life.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2024
Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Mar. 2025
The ornithology curator at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County placed handfuls of feathers between two small screens and clipped them together with zip ties.
—Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025
Per tradition, the attendees threw three handfuls of fresh soil into the grave.
—Yurii Shyvala, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
Turing evidently helped himself to large handfuls of red forms, scrawling out screeds of notes about Delilah on the blank reverse sides.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 Feb. 2025
Then there are the shoes, the manure, even thousands of dollars in cash (which alert bystanders scooped up and ran off with handfuls, by the way).
—Jeff Kleinman, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2025
Just one or two handfuls a day should do the trick.
—Julie Marks, Verywell Health, 13 Dec. 2024
It has since been repurposed and republished by handfuls of content creators.
—Cory Mull, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
There’s a complete lack of self-consciousness in Mother’s wolfing down handfuls of meatloaf or playfully woofing at strangers in public, and that’s matched by what Adams is doing to bring this woman to life.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Handfuls.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handfuls. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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