Example sentences for: handed

How can you use “handed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Iggy's Stooges The Ig Nobel Prizes, spoofs on the Nobel Prizes that honor both genuine and phony research, were handed out this month.

  • Greece was handed a strip of land along the western coast of Asia Minor, which for over 2,000 years had had a substantial Greek population.

  • The Washington Post called her dress "cleavage-coercing" and reported that her handler, Susan Carpenter-McMillan, dabbed sweat from Jones' upper lip and set aside a piece of used chewing gum that Jones handed her.

  • He handed Pondicherry over to India and in the North African colonies gave Tunisia its independence, but was ousted from office as hostilities broke out in Algeria.

  • These reportedly intimate letters, dated between 1989 and 1991, were offered for sale for $240,000 to the London Daily Mirror by "Hewitt's spurned Italian fiancée," but the newspaper refused the offer and handed the letters to the executors of the princess's estate.


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