How to Use hankie in a Sentence
hankie
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Stealing Home is a two-hankie weeper, and a cheap one at that.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2021
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Parting Shot The Broncos have become masters of the two-hankie weepy.
—Joe Nguyen, The Denver Post, 19 Nov. 2019
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Keep a couple of hankies handy, because the play will likely soften the flintiest hearts in the audience.
—F. Kathleen Foley, latimes.com, 17 Apr. 2018
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And ready your hankie for a moment between Lady Mary and the Dowager Countess that—no spoilers—shows off a softer side to the tough-as-nails matriarch.
—Elizabeth Holmes, Town & Country, 16 Sep. 2019
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Bogar, who played quarterback for Morehouse College in Atlanta, obliged with the yellow hankie.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2022
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Several questionable calls went against the Seahawks, who always seemed to slip on a zebra’s hankie during an uphill climb.
—David J. Neal, miamiherald, 30 Jan. 2018
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Anyone offended by your costume can comfort themselves with a gin and tonic while wiping their tears with an Hermès hankie.
—Alden Wicker, refinery29.com, 16 Oct. 2022
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Sunglass cases, hankies, make-up bags, totes that hold tap shoes and batons, pocketbooks and key chains are all good candidates for our family markings.
—Leslie Anne Tarabella, AL.com, 10 July 2017
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Will this be a five-hankie tearjerker, or a Collateral Beauty–style calamity?
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021
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Despite his relatively casual daily dress of bluejeans, collared shirt and dress shoes, Luke rarely left home without a hankie in his back pocket.
—WSJ, 8 Mar. 2019
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Handing over a dog-eared paperback to a friend, gushing about shocking plot twists over coffee, sharing a hankie over tearjerker endings – good stories are made better with sharing.
—Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2022
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The six-step kits, which retail from $48 to $52, each include the dye formula, a silk hankie, protective gloves, string, and a manual on shibori—the Japanese dyeing technique that produces those better-than-tie-dye patterns on fabric.
—Zoë Sessums, Bon Appetit, 22 Feb. 2018
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President Barack Obama handed over a hankie during a funeral.
—Adrienne So, Wired, 5 Mar. 2020
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