Example sentences for: handshake

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

  • They do not measure a young girl's smile or a little boy's first handshake or a grandmother's pride.

  • Overoptimism is in fact the common theme in many of the most purely American phenomena: the myth that anybody can grow up to be president, that immigrants' children can be doctors and lawyers, that you can turn your franchise into a fortune, that salesman can make it on a smile and a handshake.

  • The picture on the NYT and WP fronts captures the moment: It's the "Primary Colors" opening handshake gone mad.

  • This may be the case as GABA can increase intracellular proton levels by intensifying bicarbonate ion conductance through a GABA-gated channel [ 15 ] which may act as a "developmental handshake" and regulate neuronal differentiation [ 16 ] . The chloride channel, an integral part of the GABA a receptor, has been implicated in embryonic development [ 17 ] . GABA receptors are first seen at the time the neural tube formation [ 18 ] . Binding sites to GABA agonists and antagonists and the expression of GABA receptor mRNAs are seen starting at 4 days of development and peak at 10-15 days, corresponding to the time of neural tube formation [ 19 ] . Many neurotransmitters, including GABA, are growth factor candidates for the CNS [ 20 21 22 ] .

  • As the two men also explained in a Nightline forum taped before their "handshake," they both support an outright ban on soft money--the huge, unregulated contributions funneled into the general election by way of the political parties.


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