Example Sentences

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Plus he has the gargantuan hands of a man who was palming basketballs when he was barely a teenager.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 28, 2020

Shadow realized that he was palming the gold coin, moving it compulsively from a back palm to a front palm to a Downs palm, over and over.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

In charity for the Frenchman's taste, I have sometimes thought the vender of these little barkers was palming a quiz upon me.

From Eight days in New Orleans in February, 1847 by Pickett, Albert James

Lim-bert's vision of accidents hovered mainly over the sudden awakening of Mr. Bousefield to the stuff that in the department of fiction his editor was palming off.

From Embarrassments by James, Henry

This seemed to dispose of the theory that he was palming off illegitimate money.

From The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont by Barr, Robert