How to Use panhandle in a Sentence

panhandle

1 of 2 noun
  • The Texas Panhandle is the northernmost part of the state.
  • Our route took us over the northern portion of the panhandle.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Sep. 2022
  • As close as the panhandle of Virginia, there’s a slight chance for severe storms.
    — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Traffic and school pressures brought on by growth concern people in the panhandle.
    — John Marks, Charlotte Observer, 26 Mar. 2026
  • This fishing town in Florida's panhandle is the place for fresh catch.
    — Cristina Corvino, Country Living, 4 Feb. 2023
  • The storms that hit the panhandle included two tornadoes in the area that left one person killed.
    — Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 16 June 2023
  • They got married on the white sand of a resort on the Florida panhandle.
    — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • And then coming back to the panhandle of Texas and dealing with the same type of wind as Montana.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2021
  • DeSantis said the long district, which stretched across the panhandle, relied too much on race.
    — Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2025
  • This isn’t the first time officials have proposed restoring service across the panhandle.
    — Mary Perez The Sun Herald (tns), al, 3 Jan. 2023
  • On the west coast, a tropical storm watch is in effect from the panhandle south to Bonita Springs.
    — David Schutz, Sun Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The most recent was Michael, which hammered the panhandle in 2018.
    — Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Today, there is a chance of a wintry mix for some of the areas in the panhandle impacted by the fires, the weather service said.
    — Nigel Chiwaya, NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Windy grew up in Clark Fork in Idaho’s panhandle, near the Montana line.
    — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The bird, which lives in grasslands across five states, including the Texas panhandle, once numbered in the millions.
    — Edward McKinley, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The eastern panhandle of West Virginia is among wood turtles' last strongholds, Walde says.
    — Sadie Dingfelder, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2022
  • Dalhart is a small town in the Texas panhandle that sits in Hartley and Dallam counties.
    — Elizabeth Pritchett, Fox News, 7 Oct. 2022
  • In the camp, locals work as day laborers or panhandle on nearby Story Road.
    — Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • That includes three killed in the Texas panhandle town of Perryton on Thursday night.
    — Sonia Rao, Dallas News, 16 June 2023
  • The property is wedged up in the remote Texas panhandle, several hours’ drive from the nearest major city.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2023
  • An ex-Marine from the Texas panhandle adopts a performing chicken on a long bus ride home from New York.
    — Elizabeth Nelson, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
  • On receiving a grim prognosis, this matriarch is forced to reconsider all the choices that have brought her to the panhandle.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Perryton is a rural town that sits in the panhandle of Texas, minutes from the Oklahoma border.
    — Mireya Villarreal, ABC News, 17 June 2023
  • Prince of Wales is the largest island along Alaska's panhandle, spanning 2,577 square miles.
    — Arkansas Online, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Prince of Wales is the largest island along Alaska’s panhandle, spanning 2,577 square miles.
    — Juliet Eilperin, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Jan. 2022
  • The recent wildfires in the Texas panhandle have had devastating and deadly effects on the ranches and cattle in the area.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 12 Mar. 2024
  • This time around, any flakes that fall will be brief and melt on contact, like what was observed in the Florida panhandle two weeks ago in Pensacola.
    — Mary Wasson, Austin American Statesman, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Alaska is expected to be snowy, with the panhandle anticipating storms.
    — Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The court’s majority sided with an Idaho couple who sought to build a house near Priest Lake in the state’s panhandle.
    — John Flesher, Fortune, 26 May 2023
  • Red flag warnings have also been issued for Friday in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles.
    — Julia James, Dallas Morning News, 19 Feb. 2026

panhandle

2 of 2 verb
  • There is a law against panhandling in the subway.
  • He panhandled for his bus fare.
  • Williams panhandled with her 4-year-old in the stroller next to her and got lucky.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Steese panhandled enough cash for liquor and a speedball and then hopped a train heading north.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 26 May 2017
  • Roark jokingly bought up the idea that Danks should panhandle to raise money.
    — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 27 July 2017
  • The caller reported a woman with a child panhandling in the rain.
    — Orange County Register, 19 Jan. 2017
  • But more photos of him panhandling went viral in 2020.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The man was seen panhandling and littering even though he had previously been warned to stay away from the business.
    — cleveland, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The city also loosened bans panhandling, as well as sitting or lying down on public sidewalks.
    — Jordan Ray, Houston Chronicle, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Three vehicles with tinted windows and Virginia plates pulled to a stop near a man who was panhandling on a snowy street.
    — Rob Kuznia, CNN Money, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Police approached three males panhandling at a convenience store.
    — Lisa M. Bolton, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2018
  • One Tulsa teacher last year resorted to panhandling to pay for school supplies.
    — Moriah Balingit, Washington Post, 15 May 2018
  • Police are searching for a group of robbers who lure in South Loop victims with a man panhandling from a wheelchair.
    — Paige Fry, chicagotribune.com, 9 July 2018
  • Montgomery has agreed to halt its practice of arresting or ticketing people who panhandle.
    — Connor Sheets | [email protected], al, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Foster, 64, was panhandling and walking in the roadway on Caton Ave.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 28 May 2026
  • Krivonishchenko was briefly detained by police for playing his mandolin and pretending to panhandle in the train station.
    — Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
  • Police arrested her on charges of panhandling and engaging in conduct that implies threat of injury.
    — Fox News, 28 Oct. 2019
  • By 2016, videos of him panhandling in Maryland went viral online.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2026
  • There is no real relief from this unless you are reduced to panhandling on a street corner with a Dunkin Donuts cup looking for spare change.
    — Jenna Reyes, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Whether this was a genuinely threatening gesture or the sort of panhandling that straphangers (as they were still called) had learned to evade or ignore is disputed.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • In the fall of 2010, Ellis was arrested for panhandling with a cardboard sign on the side of the highway.
    — J.d. Crowe | [email protected], al.com, 9 July 2019
  • But more photos of him panhandling went viral in 2020, and the concern from the basketball world grew louder.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Residents panhandled up to 54 hours a week to provide money to the church, according to the indictment.
    — Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2019
  • There were significant struggles, including a drug problem and years panhandling, Optekar said.
    — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2017
  • As an example, Richard said she'd been told that some homeless had been aggressive and verbally abusive toward them when panhandling.
    — Mike Danahey, chicagotribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Some lawmakers had concerns about the bill's impact on those experiencing homelessness or who may be panhandling on the sides of highways.
    — Lucas Aulbach, Louisville Courier Journal, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Idalia is the strongest storm to make landfall in Big Bend, the link between the peninsula and panhandle, in more than 125 years.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Neely was a 30-year-old Black man who was experiencing homelessness and had performed and panhandled on the subway to get by.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 5 May 2023
  • Council member Casey Thomas said the city has to find different solutions to address why people panhandle.
    — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2021
  • Meanwhile, residents continued to wander in and out, even panhandling among the sick patients waiting outside the hospital.
    — Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 25 Apr. 2020

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