Example sentences for: handshakes

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

  • Since medieval times, masons had devised confidential phrases and handshakes to recognize fellow craftsmen and protect their trade secrets from outsiders.

  • The history of such handshakes suggests that such caution is not crazy.

  • Washington has rarely seemed giddier about a foreign visitor: American papers have suggested that "peace is just around the corner," that Israel is united behind its new chief, that final rapprochement with the Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese is just a matter of proofreading the treaties and scheduling a few ceremonial handshakes in the Rose Garden.

  • The union's dissolution, while welcomed by the culturally confident Celts, may produce an upper lip-testing identity crisis among the English, who lately find themselves better known for soccer hooliganism and tainted beef than for bus stop queues and dead fish handshakes.


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