hankie
Example Sentences
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They got a kiss, a scarf or a perspiration-filled hankie in return, keeping the crowd in a frenzy for the full hour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
When he dropped the hankie to the floor, there was inevitably a scramble amongst the audience to retrieve it.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2018
When the other antagonist is North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, the nightmare can’t be dismissed as the twisted hankie of the persistently worried.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2017
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
Then she went to her chest of drawers and took out a hankie, unfolded it and gave it to her.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
