How to Use hankie in a Sentence

hankie

noun

• Stealing Home is a two-hankie weeper, and a cheap one at that.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2021
• Parting Shot The Broncos have become masters of the two-hankie weepy.
  — Joe Nguyen, The Denver Post, 19 Nov. 2019
• Keep a couple of hankies handy, because the play will likely soften the flintiest hearts in the audience.
  — F. Kathleen Foley, latimes.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• And ready your hankie for a moment between Lady Mary and the Dowager Countess that—no spoilers—shows off a softer side to the tough-as-nails matriarch.
  — Elizabeth Holmes, Town & Country, 16 Sep. 2019
• Bogar, who played quarterback for Morehouse College in Atlanta, obliged with the yellow hankie.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2022
• Several questionable calls went against the Seahawks, who always seemed to slip on a zebra’s hankie during an uphill climb.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 30 Jan. 2018
• Anyone offended by your costume can comfort themselves with a gin and tonic while wiping their tears with an Hermès hankie.
  — Alden Wicker, refinery29.com, 16 Oct. 2022
• Sunglass cases, hankies, make-up bags, totes that hold tap shoes and batons, pocketbooks and key chains are all good candidates for our family markings.
  — Leslie Anne Tarabella, AL.com, 10 July 2017
• Will this be a five-hankie tearjerker, or a Collateral Beauty–style calamity?
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021
• Despite his relatively casual daily dress of bluejeans, collared shirt and dress shoes, Luke rarely left home without a hankie in his back pocket.
  — WSJ, 8 Mar. 2019
• Handing over a dog-eared paperback to a friend, gushing about shocking plot twists over coffee, sharing a hankie over tearjerker endings – good stories are made better with sharing.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2022
• The six-step kits, which retail from $48 to $52, each include the dye formula, a silk hankie, protective gloves, string, and a manual on shibori—the Japanese dyeing technique that produces those better-than-tie-dye patterns on fabric.
  — Zoë Sessums, Bon Appetit, 22 Feb. 2018
• President Barack Obama handed over a hankie during a funeral.
  — Adrienne So, Wired, 5 Mar. 2020
• Spoiler Alert potentially has a shot at appeal beyond that niche, particularly with audiences starved for a genuinely moving, pleasingly old-fashioned four-hankie tearjerker whose sentiments are backed by lived experience.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2024