Example Sentences

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Any ambitious manufacturer who can use 5,052,177 sq. ft. of floor space and does not mind operating an unhandily located plant should apply to the Defense Plant Corp.

From Time Magazine Archive

Theodore Roosevelt suffered periodically from what was unhandily called cholera morbus?an acute inflammation of the digestive tract, with diarrhea, cramps and vomiting.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I said 'grab them'!" The painted group moved round Samneric nervously and unhandily.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

When they had understood what made this ghostly noise and Percival was quiet again, Ralph and Simon picked him up unhandily and carried him to a shelter.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

He fell unhandily, several of the stones following him, and the leather portfolio going all abroad.

From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)