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Threads fly and snag over the grid of hankies, and become their own calligraphy.
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Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2023
But first, grab a hankie.
—refinery29.com, 21 Nov. 2021
Titanic remains a four-hankie crowd-pleaser par excellence, elevating a paper-thin love story to the scale of myth by placing it against the backdrop of incalculable human tragedy.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 9 Feb. 2023
Pulling a hankie out To wipe your brow surreptitiously.
—Hannah Aizenman, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2023
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Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2023
But first, grab a hankie.
—refinery29.com, 21 Nov. 2021
Titanic remains a four-hankie crowd-pleaser par excellence, elevating a paper-thin love story to the scale of myth by placing it against the backdrop of incalculable human tragedy.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 9 Feb. 2023
Pulling a hankie out To wipe your brow surreptitiously.
—Hannah Aizenman, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2023
See all Example Sentences for hankie
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“Hankie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hankie. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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