Words similar to handful

Example sentences for: handful

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For many, slang and its treatment—however clinical—is taboo, for it is loaded language, not so much with the expected four-letter words (of which there are only a handful) but with racial, religious, and ethnic slurs, which are both derogatory and offensive and are shunned like the plague by liberals.
Only a handful of people received it.
Presidents have only invoked fast track on a handful of occasions, and each time the agreement it covered was approved.
In the almost 17 years I spent on Capitol Hill I cannot remember more than a handful of instances in which a member invested more of him or herself in an issue.
By late Monday, Harris had only a handful of bids, and only one was verified as legitimate.