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How to use handshake in a sentence

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A connection between a browser and a Web server is divided into two phases, the handshake and the data transfer.
You get equipped with a decoder ring, walkie talkie watch, secret handshake and some tinfoil to wear on your head.
With every handshake my glass was topped up with a nip of whisky and by 1am I was feeling rather wobbly.
To add salt to his wounds, he's besieged by 'journalists' interrogating him about his golden handshake and gambling habit.
He unbends his skinny frame from a nylon hammock and gives me a handshake more bone than flesh.
These days, after a handshake with this undemonstrative, measured, charming man, you might have a quick check that your arm is still affixed.
In such a situation a handshake is unthinkable and a mere waving of one hand is somehow too frivolous.
When she was on her feet again, she quickly untwisted her dress and set her hair straight before she offered her hand to him in a handshake.
A bro hug, for the uninitiated, is a handshake that flows into a shoulder-first, backslapping embrace.
The spacefaring brotherhood that now exists can be traced back to that handshake in orbit.
He is a tall, burly man in his early 40s, with cropped hair, a friendly grin and a firm handshake.
A firm handshake is the basic greeting, and people shake hands again when they part.
I read recently in this newspaper that kissing has now supplanted the handshake as the greeting of choice among male friends.
The usual greeting is a handshake, although Roma men often embrace relatives and close friends and kiss them on the cheek.
Outside of formal introductions greetings are often vocal and are not accompanied by a handshake or kiss.
A handshake is the normal greeting between men and women unless one is very familiar with the person.
He set down one of his items on the floor and stretched his hand for a handshake and I shook his hand as firmly as I could with my free hand.
The customary greeting involves a firm handshake, direct eye contact, and perhaps a slight nod of the head but rarely embracing or kissing.
He received a few awed stares, many cheerful greetings and a hearty handshake from the leader of the family.
Instead he put on a big grin and put his hand out toward Mitch to signal for a handshake.
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Adams gratefully protracted the handshake that accompanied these inquiries.
In the buzz and hum of its flywheel, Perry got a damp and unenthusiastic handshake.
There was nothing of genuine American heartiness in the handshake he gave Frank.
There was no possibility of anything further between them, not even a handshake.
A very characteristic and impressive thing about Uriah Heep is his handshake, as Copperfield felt it.
The suede glove came forward, and was buried in his handshake.
He stood up with her and gave her a long, two-handed handshake.
Not a word or even a mutter assisted this short and arid handshake.
I'd rather have a hearty English handshake than all the sentimental salutations in France.
Francis gimped out a moment later and gave him a solemn handshake.
Moore seemed enraptured at the handshake and breathless over the occasion.
And now I suppose we shall say good-bye without even a handshake.
And with these words, uttered in the tone she liked, Laurie left her, after a handshake almost painful in its heartiness.
Mr Hern was cautious about the Government's pounds 10,000 golden handshake.
There is something weirdly pathetic about the picture of that white-haired veteran greeting with his loving handshake this friend who had been dead forty years.
The hand in the new Gondwana logo symbolises the handshake with which we greet our guests, individuality, the helping hand, cohesion and warm-heartedness.
He was usually cold and distant with men, but with all women he had a silent, grave familiarity, a special handshake, accompanied by a significant, deliberate look.
She offered me her hand and I noticed that her handshake included a slight pressure backwards to remind me that I had to walk backwards 3 paces before curtsying again.
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