What's the difference between handbag and handkerchief?

Handbag


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Harping on endlessly about a woman’s hair, legs and handbag instead of her ideas and achievements can be horribly belittling, a way of refusing to take her seriously as a professional.
  • (2) A photograph of her confronting a row of police officers, a handbag dangling from her arm, became one of the iconic images of the 1970s.
  • (3) On a dreich November evening in Gourock, a red-coated mongrel is wandering between the seats in a room above a pub, pausing to sniff handbags for hidden treats.
  • (4) This will be the ninth episode, in which Jenna Coleman's Clara must lug the Doctor and his Tardis around in her handbag after they get shrunken down to miniature size.
  • (5) The latter is fresh out of university, fluent in English and wears a canary-yellow silk blouse and tight jeans with a large designer handbag.
  • (6) Beaumont, wide of eyes and clutching her handbag, has a lovely ingenuous manner, and a reliably crowd-pleasing set, but her brand of comedy is as cosy as a Hovis ad .
  • (7) Its most recent promotional video starts with a young woman waiting at a bus stop when an elderly lady is mugged for her handbag.
  • (8) Frankly, if anyone is daft enough to spend £1,000 on a handbag, it’s no skin off anyone else’s nose.
  • (9) Elizabeth Mumbua Njeru, 35, sits on a step outside the casualty ward hugging her handbag to her chest.
  • (10) In my handbag, there’s generally a book, a spare book, and a notebook.
  • (11) Even our handbags are suspect, and you don't have to read Freud to know what that symbolises.
  • (12) 6.13pm BST 54 min: There follows a brief bout of handbags in which Ignashevich gets a yellow card for bodychecking Yaya Toure.
  • (13) Our office bearer has a hi-fi in that studio office and is as likely to be playing the new 45 from the hardcore band Leather or electro drone by Tim Hecker as he is to be playing a deep cut of Cincinnati soul or handbag disco or improv guitar noodlings, whether newly released from Oren Ambarchi or 30 years old from the Takoma label.
  • (14) Because it’s extremely easy to spend that on any of those things, and I don’t see any of them as more beneficial to the greater good than May’s trousers, or Morgan’s handbag, for that matter.
  • (15) In both experiments, younger people were more likely to steal, as were those who put the letter in pockets or handbags after picking it up.
  • (16) We’re not wild about her loveheart necklace or plastic handbag, but then we’re not eight years old, so what do we know?
  • (17) "I've got a better one," she says immediately, pulls two iPhones from her handbag and swipes impatiently across the screens in search of the app.
  • (18) Terry then said "good" and the two agreed it was "just handbags, innit".
  • (19) Instead of being seen as an important piece of equipment that can be life-saving,” he said, “like a handbag, everyone’s got one.” The inhaler – a profile Born: 1956 in the US.
  • (20) The inside story pointed out that with the R$85bn (£30bn) of public money siphoned off each year, the government could eradicate poverty, build 1.5m homes – or purchase 18m designer handbags.

Handkerchief


Definition:

  • (n.) A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face or hands.
  • (n.) A piece of cloth shaped like a handkerchief to be worn about the neck; a neckerchief; a neckcloth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But some wise old heads sniff into their handkerchiefs because they have sat through too many costly "happy ever after" ceremonies that ended in acrimony.
  • (2) Other possible causes of I-131 contaminated handkerchiefs are also discussed.
  • (3) Standing on stage next to Toback and festival boss Thierry Frémaux, Tyson, a bulky figure in a suit, looked a little uncomfortable, dabbing at his forehead with a handkerchief.
  • (4) A DNA profile was obtained from a stain of nasal mucus on this handkerchief and found to match a suspect later arrested for an attempted rape in the same locality.
  • (5) She would tramp to the village phone box and wait for some ringing and then quiz me about eating greens and clean handkerchiefs and comprehensively diss my dad, who had left home to "find himself" – in the arms of a local paramour.
  • (6) Then I got two handkerchiefs with the Anarchy cover printed on them, but I gave one to Sid Vicious because he said, "Those bastards won't give me one!"
  • (7) He appears to move back and forth with a handkerchief in his hand, as if mopping the brow of, and comforting, the woman.
  • (8) Ronald Reagan's survival rested on a knife edge, and a handkerchief may well have saved George W Bush.
  • (9) Moscow was veiled in acrid smoke from such fires this morning as landmarks disappeared from view and commuters clutched handkerchiefs to their faces.
  • (10) He said anyone who develops flu-like symptoms should go home, protect their mouths when coughing, and throw away used handkerchiefs.
  • (11) In a multivariate model that adjusted for age range, profit status and liberal fecal policy, towel or handkerchief use (OR 5.5, 95% CI: 1.1, 30) was the only variable independently associated with case facilities.
  • (12) Brooker turned the screw on the Lib Dem leader right from the start of the live show, warning him: “This ain’t going to help your poll ratings.” When Clegg grabbed hold of the presenter’s pocket handkerchief, Brooker, who has a disability, told him: “You’ve done enough bad things to the disabled.” In making a pitch to get the sceptical interviewer to cast a vote at the upcoming general election, the party leader said not voting would be like going into Nando’s, not putting in an order and then complaining if you were unhappy with what you were served.
  • (13) His new colleagues thought the tall, well-built young man with a silk handkerchief in his breast pocket looked like a 'successful young brigadier'.
  • (14) Due to the smoke, you couldn't see two metres in front of you, but, covering their faces in wet handkerchiefs, they all went to work nonetheless.
  • (15) Factors associated with the risk of transmission of HBV infection included sharing of various personal and household articles, such as toothbrush, towel, handkerchief, clothing, razor, comb, bed and bedding.
  • (16) Tomás lived up to his reputation as a hero to Barcelona bullfight fans with his first bull – being awarded the gory trophy of the bull's ears as cheering fans waved white handkerchiefs to express admiration.
  • (17) He looks like he should be hawking handkerchiefs on the Home Shopping Network with Joy Mangano or Suzanne Pleshette.
  • (18) His outfit could almost be a store-bought costume: the bright red braces, the wide polka-dot tie, even the carefully folded red handkerchief protruding from the left breast pocket of his suit.
  • (19) To carry a clean handkerchief is becoming oldfashioned (Table 3).
  • (20) "Little shrines erected in some university library around the handkerchief in which Graham Greene blew his nose in 1957."

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