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

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

Tiny though she is, her handclasp is as firm as a bricklayer's.

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