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
But to many a patient, lying scared as she awaits the anesthetist's mask, the most comforting feature is the gentle but firmly reassuring handclasp of Dr. Scudder, the woman who decided to follow family tradition.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whenever possible, he applied the personal touch: a fervent handclasp, an embrace, a clutched arm, a kiss.
From Time Magazine Archive
Samples of his rhyming: Ain't it good when life seems dreary And your hopes about to end, Just to feel the handclasp cheery Of a fine old loyal friend?
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
