How to Use handicap in a Sentence

handicap

verb

• It's very hard to handicap the election at this point.
• The blow to the back of Belue's head handicapped her during the attack.
  — Rebecca Hennes, Houston Chronicle, 13 Sep. 2019
• He’s gone back to Charlie for the Belmont, a fact not lost on those who will try and handicap the race.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2021
• To make matters worse, the slow-working Jansen could be handicapped by the advent of the pitch clock.
  — Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• Yet the results of the last two weeks have caused chaos for anyone trying to handicap the playoff field.
  — New York Times, 10 Nov. 2021
• Memorial Day is nigh, and there’s no time like the present to begin handicapping the race for song of the summer, 2018.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 17 May 2018
• While standing guard to make sure none of the contestants are stolen, the farmers handicap the top five just by looking at and tapping the gourds.
  — Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 11 Oct. 2020
• But Mage was not in the first sentence of many conversations handicapping the first jewel of the Triple Crown.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 7 May 2023
• Teams these days will move three players to the right side of the infield to handicap left-handed hitters like Votto.
  — Sridhar Pappu, The Atlantic, 11 Apr. 2020
• Bowlsby refused to handicap how any vote on the season might go.
  — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2020
• The government was handicapped for a time by lack of high-speed craft and men to man them, but this deficiency has now been met.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2019
• He was handicapped by (LSU) trying to mass-protect him.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 27 Feb. 2020
• So, with that, here’s his latest advice on things to look at when handicapping.
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 24 Feb. 2018
• Bottom-feeder bowls are tricky to handicap in the best of circumstances.
  — Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• The old way of handicapping best picture was to narrow the field down to the biggest movies and then, of the biggest, to figure out which was the stupidest, and that was the winner.
  — Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2018
• Both would have to go on the 40-man roster, which starts to make other candidates who are not on the 40-man trickier to handicap.
  — Susan Slusser, SFChronicle.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• To create a level playing field and give E15 a better chance, the Corn Belt leaders are trying to handicap sales of E10.
  — Jennifer A. Dlouhy and Chunzi Xu, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2023
• That meant a long wait, trying not to handicap the odds as other competitors took the stage, trying not to lose focus on their own game.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 13 Aug. 2023
• Finally, at its core, the Bubble Watch is about handicapping the race for the final X number of spots left for Y number of teams.
  — Michael Beller, SI.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• For those handicapping the MLS expansion race, Detroit now takes a step back.
  — Brian Straus, SI.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• That kind of transparency could handicap the giants that hold sway in the corporate bond market.
  — Bloomberg.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• Beyond those six, the numbers get a little harder to handicap.
  — Joel A. Erickson, Indianapolis Star, 23 Aug. 2019
• While the Orioles are preparing for it, Showalter wouldn’t handicap the likelihood of adding free-agent starters.
  — Eduardo A. Encina, baltimoresun.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• Our handicapping teacher, Rob Henie, was bothered by the comments of some of the pundits.
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 21 May 2018
• The status quo will handicap our daughters for centuries.
  — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 19 Nov. 2019
• For an extra $20, Pete will handicap for you today’s 6th race at Del Mar, then come to your house to pitch Wiffleballs to your grandkids.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 6 June 2018
• In the same token, President Trump is slightly handicapped as well.
  — Siraj Hashmi, Washington Examiner, 7 Apr. 2020
• This is not an exhaustive list, but rather an attempt to handicap several tiers of the field from which Indiana will hope to hire its next head coach.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Mar. 2021
• The building is handicapped accessible and admission to the event is free and open to the general public.
  — Courant Community, 20 Mar. 2018
• The race is handicapped in an unusually calculated attempt to get the top runners in every age group to the finish line at the same time.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 13 June 2018

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