hankie
Example Sentences
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When he dropped the hankie to the floor, there was inevitably a scramble amongst the audience to retrieve it.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2018
In these post-truth times, journalists are fighting the equivalent of a firestorm with a bottle of water and a wet hankie.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2017
When the other antagonist is North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, the nightmare can’t be dismissed as the twisted hankie of the persistently worried.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2017
This I hated to see, if only because one of the great things about Ms. Olds’s verse is that she never seems to be carrying a hankie at all, much less a fancy hankie.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2016
He buried his face in a hankie, by turns lighting it on fire and then dousing the flames with his tears.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
