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

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

From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2022

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

She even took a hankie she tied to the strap of her undershirt and cried into it.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia