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A h______ of people or things is a small number of them.A handful of people or things is a small number of them.
He surveyed the handful of customers at the bar.
One spring morning a handful of potential investors assembled in Quincy.
word handful
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A handful of people or things is a small number of them.
He surveyed the handful of customers at the bar.
One spring morning a handful of potential investors assembled in Quincy.
A handful of something is the amount of it that you can hold in your hand.
She scooped up a handful of sand and let it trickle through her fingers.
If you say that someone, especially a child, is a handful, you mean that they are difficult to control.
Zara can be a handful sometimes.
inflections handfuls
cefr-level C1

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:c1

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