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

They all found his manner as genial, his handclasp as warm, his lan guage as blunt as ever.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Norman Clyde still has a face that is unlined and a handclasp that can crumple knuckles.

From Time Magazine Archive

It may have coaxed a cheer from onlookers, but last week's Rabin/Arafat handclasp was a trifle stiff.

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