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
Visitors crowd around Barry Goldwater's fourth-floor suite in the old Senate Office Building, hoping to earn a passing handclasp or a hastily scrawled autograph.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tiny though she is, her handclasp is as firm as a bricklayer's.
From Time Magazine Archive
This celestial handclasp between old adversaries involved more politicking than space exploration, but it did set an important precedent for future cooperation in the cosmos as well as on earth.
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
