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Example Sentences

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But is it really unprecedented for a handful of stocks to dominate the market and produce the highest returns?

From The Wall Street Journal

It’s had a handful of modest successes and flops since then, but “Hail Mary” represents its most ambitious and expensive release, with a production budget of some $200 million.

From The Wall Street Journal

He nods to a "handful of hits" - including a Paddington immersive experience featuring a very real, very hungry bear - and while some fell flat, "at least they're willing to hazard their audience taking offence".

From BBC

A handful of people clung to an idea of normality, saying they were crossing into Turkey for vacations planned before the war.

From The Wall Street Journal

My body was covered in a handful of enlarged mosquito bites, many of them already open gashes from my relentless itching.

From Salon