handkerchief

Example Sentences

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Morris dancing involves performers - often wearing hats and bells on their legs - wielding handkerchiefs, sticks or swords, to the accompaniment of folk music.

From BBC

“I mean, what pocket handkerchief is he going to wear? Maybe this will become the equivalent of the queen’s handbag.”

From Seattle Times

“Her concluding trick, wherein a card jumps from a handkerchief into the core of an orange, was the hit of the show,” The Las Vegas Review-Journal said.

From New York Times

A White mob gathered, wearing handkerchiefs over their faces, tied up one of Juricks’ guards and forced the other to drive the wagon into some woods.

From Washington Post

Thomas Hampson, a 67-year-old American baritone, starred as President Richard Nixon, complete with hunched shoulders and a sweaty face he repeatedly dabbed with a white handkerchief.

From Seattle Times