handclasp
Example Sentences
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What matters is the listening, the bearing witness—the quiet handclasp that says, I hear you.
From Slate ● May 30, 2017
Each had held its last separate meeting before their 800 delegates gathered to witness the handclasp of union by their presidents.
From Time Magazine Archive
And although both Miss Gish and her step-daughter Sonia love Dr. Astrov, no entente more cordial than a handclasp is ever consummated.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whenever possible, he applied the personal touch: a fervent handclasp, an embrace, a clutched arm, a kiss.
From Time Magazine Archive
As he held her hand in the handclasp, he thought, “She’ll be my wife, someday, God and she willin’.”
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
