Example sentences for: handout

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

  • This stigma is the natural flip side of the work ethic: If you "honor and support work," in Clinton's phrase, then you are at least slightly dishonored and ashamed to get a handout that goes to people who don't work a lick.

  • Those who claim to want a cut in the capital-gains tax rate because it will increase investment and not because it is a handout to the rich could gain a lot of credibility if they advocated reducing the rate only on future capital gains.

  • The ethnoveterinary handout was given to two hunters.

  • He continued and accelerated a movement in both elite and popular thinking about welfare policy that had largely begun in the Nixon years: that welfare should be much more closely tied to work, that it should be (to use a phrase created, but never really acted upon, by Lyndon Johnson) a "hand up not a handout."

  • But if a working-poor American sees food stamps as an undignified handout, that judgment, too, deserves respect.


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