handle
Example Sentences
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Pratt’s critics say that his plan relies on funneling homeless people into a shelter system that doesn’t have the capacity to handle them all.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026
But, he added, the department is “a thousand police officers short of what we need to handle the call volume we have.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
Both use it to handle drudge work in their own projects.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
It's billed as the next generation of astronaut exercise equipment for long space missions by its inventor, John Kennett, who says his small piece of equipment can handle 300 exercises.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
He shows me how to clamp the handle so the end of it opens.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
Vocabulary lists containing handle
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"Digging" by Seamus Heaney
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