hankie

Example Sentences

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Biden coughed, took out a hankie and discreetly blew his nose.

From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2022

“Keep your hankie in your bag; it’s not meant to be twisted.”

From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2020

When he dropped the hankie to the floor, there was inevitably a scramble amongst the audience to retrieve it.

From BBC • Oct. 1, 2018

This I hated to see, if only because one of the great things about Ms. Olds’s verse is that she never seems to be carrying a hankie at all, much less a fancy hankie.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2016

I pulled my hankie out of my pinafore and soaked it in seconds.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly