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How to use handicap in a sentence

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Asthma is not a handicap in achieving excellence in sport as shown by the number of Olympic gold medal swimmers who were asthmatics.
The four-year-old caught the eye when finishing fifth in a competitive handicap at Haydock on his latest start.
He lost out by a short head to Clever Consul in a competitive handicap, after losing a lot of ground at the start.
Carrying top weight in such a competitive handicap is never ideal but he has earned the poundage and he is built to carry it.
The party now has an articulated policy platform, which was a major handicap in the last election.
Winner of the boys' 90 metres handicap race was eight-year-old Macaulay Dixon from Ulverston.
Playing off a 19 handicap, Bob came in with 39 points to beat the field by a single stroke.
He is a long-standing member who competes regularly, if usually unspectacularly, off his 23 handicap.
That they were visually impaired did not handicap their ambitions at least.
The overall objective of the primer is so that a person with a visual handicap can acquire a skill to read on his own and even sign his name.
At Ascot as recently as last Saturday, he won a competitive handicap by one and three-quarter lengths from Guinea Hunter.
The same trainer and jockey joined forces yesterday to clinch a shock 50-1 success with Bagan in the curtain-raising handicap.
However, knowing Stais, she'll have a happy and active retirement and no doubt her golf handicap will be falling faster than inflation is rising!
At Ascot he would be nicely weighted even if he will run from three pounds out of the handicap.
Justice was fast, but Eagle was just a bit faster, even with my weight handicap.
This recently-introduced grade of racing, for horses with a handicap rating of 45 or under, has proved popular down south thus far.
Of the 12 major prizewinners, only two failed to equal or better their handicap.
The round capped off a very successful period for Mike, which has seen his handicap reduce steadily towards the first division level.
His handicap has been dropping consistently but he continues to be a bottom feeder.
In the circumstances it was no surprise that nobody beat their handicap, nor that Tim Holt came in the winner, by a short cough.
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So it seemed that Owen Lovejoy and his friends had incumbered Lincoln with a fatal handicap.
These last qualities would handicap any girl in love, no matter how clear her skin or white her shirtwaist.
And the pinto, for all his courage, could not meet that handicap and beat it.
In business the aristocracy of birth or the aristocracy of boodle is a decided handicap.
Dis being Texarkana's fate, she has had a hard struggle overcoming dis handicap for sixty-three years.
No such thing as a good handicap, nor a hurdle race for a finish, without you.
Not that any lady's pulchritude is a handicap to a stage career or in any way undesirable.
Who could say what unmet necessity might handicap him at some critical time?
Despite the handicap of his weight, this victory was due to his splendid back and abdominal lifting muscles.
The following day it's the Eland Salver, an 18-hole medal competition with a handicap limit of 10 to 20 and the Eland Rose Bowl.
One would think it was a big handicap you meant to capture this morning.
Sulaalaat made all in the 7f handicap but looked set to be caught by Caprior Bere.
Callan took the 5f handicap on Fast Freddie, the all-aged 1m4f maiden on Restless Soul and the 1m6f handicap on Merrymaker.
And, last time, she ran a cracker to finish third to Old Guard in a conditional jockeys' handicap hurdle at Cheltenham four weeks ago.
Andrew Mullen, who hails from nearby Tranent, was seen to good effect on Anthemion in the 1m apprentices' handicap.
Fairview Star, conqueror of 1-5 shot Marchese Marconi last time out, is the wild card in the line-up on his handicap debut.
Jon Akehurst's three-year-old was really impressive on her handicap bow at Wolverhampton, clinically outmanoeuvring a good field.
I'll give you a brush, if you do, and a handicap into the bargain.
For example, if this had been a handicap he would have had to give 7lb to Tangerine Trees.
These efforts have militated against the handicap of what could charitably be called green design's historical lack of charisma.
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