handbill
Example Sentences
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“Dance!! Dance!! Dance!! to the music of the Silhouettes Band!!” read the handbill.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2025
One fear-mongering handbill, “The Vaccination Vampire,” from 1881, for example, pushed the claim that vaccinations would lead to “degradation and extinction,” and were a source of “universal pollution.”
From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2021
The moderator of the neighborhood email group wouldn’t post their handbill, so as not to “harm the community.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2020
Targeting a different audience —”Mexicanos y Filipinos” — is a handbill from the time, also on the museum wall.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 24, 2019
“What if we baked small cakes and delivered them to the State House with a handbill advertising our new wares?”
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.