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How to use the word handy in a Sentence?

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The handy gene, as you may have noticed, is recessive. And as certain as I was that I would follow in his footsteps, I just didn't get the skills. So I got into entertainment.

Mike Rowe

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Pro started tracking the issue of low-wage worker misclassification a couple years ago when AB-5 was moving forward in the California legislature, pretty quickly The Pro zeroed in on Handy... because they seemed to exert significantly more control over their workers than some of the other companies in the market.

Montoya Tansey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You can't fight a battle handy, u need brothers to do that........ so don't try to walk alone

Somy blaq

added by anonymous
3 years ago

FREE Do whatever the hell you want and sod everybody else mask, wear this handy Dom face covering and you'll get away with murder.

Daily Star

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The general rule of thumb for emergencies is to store at least one gallon of water per person or pet per day and to have a three-day supply handy. However, if you typically drink tap water or have some sort of filter, I wouldn't worry about buying copious amounts of water.

Alyssa Pike

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If I see the offer has a bunch of water, toilet paper, handy wipes, I don't accept it because customers are rating people low because they can't get items that were out of stock or are limited supply.

Heidi Carrico

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This is an ancient, colonial set of regulations, and Christopher Cheung don't use them unless Christopher Cheung can't legislate anymore. Once Christopher Cheung start, there's no end to it. She could even invoke Article 23 under this, that gives her justification - I need more police powers, I need more draconian laws - it's so handy. She is completely destroying the rule of law. Only the government can really harm the rule of law, citizens can not.

Martin Lee

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

10 QUESTIONS SMALL BUSINESSES SHOULD ASK WHEN HIRING AN IT SERVICE PROVIDER Based on the premise that small- and medium-sized businesses oftentimes lack specific criteria to go by when seeking to hire an IT services provider for their every day Information Technology needs, the following list is a handy cheat sheet that addresses 10 main questions businesses should ask a potential IT service providers when seeking and comparing IT services:

onlineibusiness

added by onlineibusiness
4 years ago

She spends days thinking about the menu, grinding her own pepper, driving all over town just to find that one ingredient that we need, i've gotten pretty handy in the kitchen as her sous-chef.

Douglas Emhoff

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I would have tried to do it myself cause I’m pretty handy, but I know I couldn’t have done all this.

Army Veteran Allen Abshire

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

My hands were so badly burned and I needed help, so I used Siri to call 911, siri came in very handy.

Christopher Beaucher

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Terry Norman is in a sense the second gunman on the grassy knoll ... He's been kind of a handy bogeyman or a red herring.

Howard Means

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

That skill set came in handy, you have to see all the parts in front of you. You really learn how to understand people.

Wendy Sherman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It will come in handy, I have a small pension. But if I got billions, it could not pay for what we went through, the law and the compensation are worth nothing if the perpetrators continue to walk free. I want them to answer for their crimes, to say why they came to Vukovar to kill and rape.

Ruzica Barbaric

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun. You don't have to do anything, it just works. Shows up everyday and produces ridiculous amounts of power.

Elon Musk

added by acronimous
8 years ago

I find that for anyone who has to take pills more than once a day, using a pill box is really handy and it can be very efficient.

Kristine Arthur

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I was an only child for 10 years, I didn't start school until 8, and I didn't have a TV for years. So I found all these voices when playing with my toys. They're really my toys' voices. Schizophrenia comes in handy.

Cree Summer

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.

W.C. Fields

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.

Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Grimm Grotto

added by anonymous
13 years ago

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Johann von Goethe

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I also keep handy.

W. C. Fields

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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