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• Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.From the entry dry
• Her dad heard her sniffling and passed her a handkerchief.From the entry sniffle
• You're barely breaking even with the snotters stealing handkerchiefs in the square.2020, Ellie Jacobs, The Last Orphan: A Victorian Romance. From the entry snotter
• A large handkerchief covering her head was knotted below her chin, encircling her sunburned and wrinkled face.2017 December 17, Kee B. Park, “Amid Talk of Nuclear Weapons, North Koreans Go Hungry”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from…. From the entry weed
• In one hand she held a handkerchief, and in the other she held two cherry-shaped marzipans.2016, Rosanna Chiofalo, Rosalia's Bittersweet Pastry Shop, Kensington Books, →ISBN. From the entry marzipan
• Rosalia smiled when she saw the marzipans and took them and the handkerchief from Madre Carmela.2016, Rosanna Chiofalo, Rosalia's Bittersweet Pastry Shop, Kensington Books, →ISBN. From the entry marzipan
• Kelly cultivated a taste for the chivalry and silk handkerchiefs of his parents' generation.2001 December 18, “Timothy C. Kelly: A Dapper Throwback”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 Dec 2012. From the entry Dapper Dan
• Zander took out a silk handkerchief and vented some unpleasing odour from his mouth.2000, J. G. Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 86. From the entry unpleasing
• He patted his brow with his handkerchief and tried to clear his salivaless throat.1995, David Armstrong, Until Dawn Tomorrow, London: Collins Crime, →ISBN, page 42. From the entry salivaless
• Herbie had taken out a handkerchief and blown his nose loudly, muttering something about "Foolish.1989, John Gardner, The Secret Families. From the entry blubbing
• At last Sinoway pulled himself together and blew his nose honkingly into an immense, white handkerchief.1981, J N Williamson, Premonition. From the entry honkingly
• She waved a large blue handkerchief and heffalump waved his little white paws.1973, The Malahat Review, Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 82. From the entry heffalump
• Agnes, considerably scratched up, gives him a snakely glare as she pats her wounds with a handkerchief.1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay). From the entry snakely
• Reefing a couple of times, he lifted my handkerchief, as he might have taken out anything else.Myron M. Stearns, So You Lost Your Pocketbook?, in 1940, The Rotarian (volume 56, number 2, page 39). From the entry reef
• I saw hundreds of villages in which the community handkerchief, modern sanitation, was absolutely unknown.1916, Foreign Christian Missionary Society, The Missionary intelligencer. From the entry handkerchiefless
• Banks’s panama hat was in one hand, while the other drew a handkerchief across his perspiring brow.1913, Robert Barr, “In Search of Game”, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad, London; Melbourne, Vic.; Toronto, Ont.: Ward, Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 166. From the entry Panama hat
• Ransacking the drawers of the dresser he came upon a discarded, tiny, ragged handkerchief.1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Furnished Room”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips &…. From the entry heliotrope
• Lassies writhing on little checkerboard handkerchiefs of dancefloor.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 125. From the entry dancefloor
• For the technical rehearsal, Beckett reduced the size of Willie's handkerchief, ridiculously dainty when it perched unprotectively on Willie's bald head.2014, Ruby Cohn, Just Play: Beckett's Theater, page 255. From the entry unprotectively
• Laying the baby down, he pulled a handkerchief from his pocket to wrap around the handle of his firehot knife.2012, Sally J. Walker, Desert Time. From the entry firehot
• After six weeks in Belgium he arrived in England with only two possessions: an aluminium horse comb and a handkerchief.2003, Pamela Howe Taylor, The Germans We Trusted: Stories of Friendship Resulting from the Second World War, →ISBN, page 34. From the entry horse-comb
• In New York and Chicago, laws were passed making it illegal to sneeze or cough in public without using a handkerchief.2002, Joy Hakim, War, Peace, and All that Jazz, page 22. From the entry cougher
• Then she saw that they were waving their handkerchiefs; dipping them up and down, with a curiously sedate, formal motion.1989, Hilary Mantel, chapter 9, in Fludd (A Owl Book), New York: Henry Holt and Company, published 2000, →ISBN, page 149. From the entry sedate
• This was a linen square for practical use as a handkerchief or tablenapkin, chiefly by common folk and children.1972, Cunnington, C. Willett, Handbook of English costume in the seventeenth century, Plays, inc, page 77. From the entry tablenapkin
• Hair brushed back, legs oiled, new dresses and pressed pleats, fresh pocket handkerchiefs and little handbags, all homesewn.1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 23, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 149. From the entry homesewn
• “Can we go home now?” He nodded, produced his handkerchief, gave his face a going-over and blew his nose violently.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC. From the entry going-over
• Nature of goods.—Toilet paper, paper handkerchiefs, paper towels, paper serviettes and paper covers for lavatory seats, none being medicated.1955 October 25, The Official Gazette of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, page 1145. From the entry serviette
• Mama says you mustn't pick boogers out of your nose with your fingers; you must use your handkerchief.1948, Publication of the American Dialect Society, page 16. From the entry booger
• They won't come off on your handkerchief or powder puff.1925, Cosmopolitan, volume 78, page 194. From the entry powder puff
• She was a strangely thin girl in a dark pinafore, with a pink handkerchief tied over her hair.1917 September 20, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Feuille d’Album”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London…. From the entry pinafore
• Phillips that you'd require two handkerchiefs to dry your tears just because he was going away," said Marilla.1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Chapter XXI: A New Departure in Flavorings. From the entry never
• She’d had to sit out the rest of the race, a handkerchief filled with slightly lemonadey ice pressed against her swollen ankle.2020, Lisa Swift, chapter 30, in The School of Starting Over, Hera, →ISBN. From the entry lemonadey
• Delgard got out the handkerchief again and blew his nose loud enough to alert any bird or groundling within several hundred yards.2012, David Williams, Planning on Murder, →ISBN. From the entry groundling
• I had: socks, handkerchiefs, booktoken, record.2012, Philip Larkin, Anthony Thwaite, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica, →ISBN. From the entry booktoken
• Suddenly, to my eyes, my throat, my mouth there rushed tears and a cry which I stifled into a feigned cough into my handkerchief.1992, Alejandro Morales, chapter 14, in The Rag Doll Plagues, Houston, Tex.: Arte Público Press, →ISBN, page 64. From the entry discomfiting
• Observing that the Christ Child’s nose was running, she deftly wiped it; then she held the handkerchief in place, while instructing him to “blow.”1989, John Irving, chapter 5, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: Ballantine, published 1997, page 195. From the entry instruct
• He did have a horseface, Darby decided angrily as he yanked a handkerchief from his back pocket to wipe the tobacco off another ruined shirt.1981, Gary McCarthy, Mustang Fever, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry horseface
• His upper tunic was of white cambric, as fine as a handkerchief, so that the bright red tunic beneath it showed through.1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 14, in The Horse and His Boy, Collins, published 1999. From the entry cambric

Meaning of handkerchief

1. noun A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face, eyes, nose or hands.
2. noun A piece of cloth shaped like a handkerchief to be worn about the neck; a neckerchief or neckcloth.

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How do you use handkerchief in a sentence?

Handkerchief is used as a noun. For example: “He sneezed into his handkerchief during the meeting.”

What is a short sentence with handkerchief?

“I had: socks, handkerchiefs, booktoken, record.”

What does handkerchief mean?

Handkerchief means a piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face, eyes, nose or hands.