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How to use handing in a sentence

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Speakers at this meeting put the case against the proposed handing over of council housing stock.
The difference this time is Indians are calling the shots, instead of just handing their sitars over to the Beatles to twang.
In the end, she persuades the beast to unburden himself of the guilt which afflicts him by handing over his wealth to her.
You don't see professors handing out blue ribbons to MFAs every time they get subect-verb agreement right.
Just handing over the country to the warlords of the Northern Alliance once the war against the Taliban is won would be a kind of betrayal.
He sighed, and pulled a picture out from underneath his mattress, handing it to me.
A pensioner has been conned into handing over his life savings to bogus workmen.
But in the current political climate, with the Feds handing out tax cuts, raising taxes is political suicide.
But just because Microsoft is handing a load of cash to stockholders doesn't mean it won't have plenty of dough to invest in its future.
The commander has the option of handing off the target to the gunner or of slaving the gun to the commander's sight and initiating the fire.
A survey team will be handing out questionnaires on station platforms and trains.
While I enjoyed the news-less interlude, too many strikes will weary public patience and risk handing viewers and listeners to the opposition.
There are clearly gains from trade to be had by handing that unfortunate job off to someone at a lower pay grade.
The slow-witted criminal of the week is a guy who fled a sobriety checkpoint in New Hampshire after handing over his license and registration.
A conman who poses as a policeman has been handing out fake speeding fines to unsuspecting motorists.
Another catches a pizza delivery boy dropping the pizza and hurriedly putting it back in the box before handing it over.
Giving a charitable donation in the name of a friend is another way to avoid handing over unwanted gifts.
Daniel withdrew a small enamel snuffbox from his inner coat pocket and retrieved from it a strip of paper, handing it to his mother.
His terrific presentation on radar astronomy of asteroids included handing out models of the asteroid 216 Kleopatra to the audience.
There's something really great about getting actual mail in your actual mailbox, or handing a card to someone.
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Examples from Classical Literature
And, handing his card to one of Sir Algernon's companions, he strode out of the hall.
He took out his billfold and extracted the check, handing it to Mr. Browne.
Old Epps made himself a mucker to-day by sassing some of the gents of the fleet, and the boys are handing him a little something.
Now they would stall him off about the machines after handing him a fast line of double-talk.
The said Miss Marshall was handing the sugar, while Freda was pouring out the tea.
Fredericks knew enough of general psi theory to know when somebody was handing him a snow job.
Then handing it to his daughter, and instructing the young girl how to deliver it incog, he despatches her upon her errand.
In one the athlete is represented handing his strigil to his slave, in the other the athlete stands alone, strigil in hand.
It's like a fellow handing out a twenty-four karat gold bar to a rube by mistake, under the impression it only looks like one.
But who is the gentleman who is just going up to them and handing them a tumbler so officiously?
Who would have hindered it from handing its milliards over to us?
The Hobbs cub who was my vestiare was handing me our evening paper.
She spoke angrily to a croupier who delayed handing her some change.
The closing down by gardai of a stall handing out food to the homeless appears to be a case of officialdom gone mad.
Blan was in the act of handing a glass of orgeat to his wife.
Mariequita sat near by, dangling her legs, watching him work, and handing him nails from the tool-box.
Firefighters used a boat hook and an inflatable dinghy to bring the bird to safety before handing it over to welfare officers.
Dubai Police have arrested three women who claimed to be sorceresses and are suspected of conning victims into handing over money.
A cup of wine will do thee no harm,'' he added, filling and handing to the swineherd a richer drought than Gurth had ever before tasted.
They have been handing out poo bags and leaflets to encourage dog owners to clear up after their pooches.
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