How to Use handbill in a Sentence

handbill

noun
  • Some of the same type used on those handbills can be found at Hatch today.
    — Jon Waterhouse, CNN, 7 June 2017
  • Its only adornment was a framed picture of Mazen, the same one that had been on the handbills.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
  • This handbill intends to resolve confusion.
    — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The chapel turned in the handbills and filed a report with the Houston Police Department.
    — Allyn West, Houston Chronicle, 21 May 2018
  • Horizon’s inhabitants seem to have been lured from the East by handbills touting Edenic splendors.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
  • The article also indicates that there were handbills posted around the city in advance of the meeting to publicize it.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Their faces stare out from the FBI’s website and from handbills taped to windows and lampposts across Woodland.
    — Darrell Smith, sacbee, 21 Oct. 2017
  • Photos of the inflammatory handbills have been making the social-media rounds since April.
    — OregonLive.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • East German fans who were caught with Biermann’s music on bootleg cassette tapes or handbills of his verse could be arrested and locked away for years.
    — Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 7 July 2023
  • Pamphlets, flyers and handbills, unless approved by management.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 31 Aug. 2023
  • All over downtown Manhattan there were dizzying, heartbreaking handbills.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 18 Mar. 2020
  • In the months after the Be-In, gorgeously eccentric handbills began to appear around the Haight.
    — Longreads, 7 Aug. 2017
  • The start-up’s mission is printing and distributing handbills for businesses on the Las Vegas Strip.
    — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Wander through the decades-old photographs and ribbons, tickets and souvenirs, handbills and newspaper articles.
    — Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • In its early days, the Defender consisted of four-page, six-column handbills, filled with local news tidbits and clippings from other papers.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 9 July 2019
  • Ray's handbill says he was born in Uptown and has volunteered on the campaigns of both Democrats and independent candidates around the country.
    — Richard Rainey, NOLA.com, 2 June 2017
  • Unauthorized solicitation and materials such as handbills, flyers, stickers, beach balls, giveaways and samples.
    — Ed Masley, azcentral, 21 Feb. 2020
  • No unauthorized solicitation and materials including handbills, flyers, stickers, beach balls, give-aways, samples, etc.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • To find their man (records indicate ornamental hermits were invariably men, writes Campbell), landowners placed advertisements in local newspapers or handbills.
    — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
  • An anonymous handbill from 1837, later attributed to Lincoln, represents the young politician’s foray into Illinois state politics.
    — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The two began amassing their archive, not only recording interviews with prominent and not-so-prominent black artists and performers, but also accumulating play scripts, handbills, photographs and other materials.
    — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Some Quakers responded by pragmatically going along with the thanksgiving days, while others distributed handbills attempting to explain to their neighbors that their objection was religious rather than political.
    — JSTOR Daily, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Nearly 300 items are on display from the extensive collection of Bill Guardino, a San Jose native who has been collecting posters, handbills, records, underground newspapers and other artifacts of the time for more than five decades.
    — Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 22 Nov. 2025
  • There’s a mini treasure trove of information stored in the Gardendale area — contracts, receipts, handbills, posters and more — documenting a slew of vintage performances presented by an Alabama promoter, Peace Concerts.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], AL.com, 16 Aug. 2017

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