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
• 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
• The most recent was Michael, which hammered the panhandle in 2018.
  — Arkansas Online, 29 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
• 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 storm is bearing down on the state’s Big Bend region, where the peninsula meets the panhandle along the Gulf of Mexico.
  — Jon Kamp, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2023
• They got married on the white sand of a resort on the Florida panhandle.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2023
• The storms that hit the panhandle included two tornadoes in the area that left one person killed.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 16 June 2023
• Dalhart is a small town in the Texas panhandle that sits in Hartley and Dallam counties.
  — Elizabeth Pritchett, Fox News, 7 Oct. 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
• 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
• This fishing town in Florida's panhandle is the place for fresh catch.
  — Cristina Corvino, Country Living, 4 Feb. 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
• 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
• That includes three killed in the Texas panhandle town of Perryton on Thursday night.
  — Sonia Rao, Dallas News, 16 June 2023
• The eastern panhandle of West Virginia is among wood turtles' last strongholds, Walde says.
  — Sadie Dingfelder, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2022
• The bombs were disposed of after being discovered back in January in the Choctawhatchee Bay in the state's panhandle.
  — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2024
• Over the years, the Idaho panhandle has been home to white supremacist groups and people ready to take up arms against the U.S. government.
  — New York Times, 15 May 2022
• The history of the property dates to the 1880s when the state of Texas sold land in the panhandle to Chicago buyers to finance its new capitol building in Austin.
  — Dallas News, 5 July 2022
• 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
• Spokane is also a great base to explore Idaho's panhandle (Coeur d'Alene is just a half-hour drive away) and, beyond that, Montana.
  — Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2021
• Though not as much of a household name as other brilliant red ravines out west, Palo Duro Canyon, in the Texas panhandle, is no less striking.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 10 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
• The Big Bend is a densely forested and rural area where the state's peninsula connects with its panhandle.
  — Nikol Mudrová, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
• An Alabama man was charged with murder in the shooting death Sunday night of a 24-year-old man in the Florida panhandle.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 21 Mar. 2023
• This isn’t the first time officials have proposed restoring service across the panhandle.
  — Mary Perez The Sun Herald (tns), al, 3 Jan. 2023
• The current forecast track suggests that could happen somewhere around the state’s Big Bend area, where the peninsula connects to the panhandle.
  — Jon Kamp, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2023
• Two wildfires that are burning up the Texas panhandle have merged to create a super-wildfire that covers more than 1 million acres.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024

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panhandle

2 of 2 verb

• There is a law against panhandling in the subway.
• He panhandled for his bus fare.
• In the fall of 2010, Ellis was arrested for panhandling with a cardboard sign on the side of the highway.
  — J.d. Crowe | [e-mail], al.com, 9 July 2019
• Steese panhandled enough cash for liquor and a speedball and then hopped a train heading north.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 26 May 2017
• Gone are the buskers promoting shows, the panhandling costumed characters, the Naked Cowboy and the fake monks and the school groups and the selfie sticks.
  — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
• The caller reported a woman with a child panhandling in the rain.
  — Orange County Register, 19 Jan. 2017
• 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
• Roark jokingly bought up the idea that Danks should panhandle to raise money.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 27 July 2017
• People were panhandling Saturday in the parking lot in the 4000 block of Norrisville Road.
  — Erika Butler, The Aegis, 28 Feb. 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
• Once out of the jail Brenden struggled at times, and in 2017, he was issued a ticket for panhandling in Steelyard Commons.
  — Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• The man was seen panhandling and littering even though he had previously been warned to stay away from the business.
  — cleveland, 1 Sep. 2023
• Residents panhandled up to 54 hours a week to provide money to the church, according to the indictment.
  — Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2019
• The specialists approached a man on West End Avenue and 79th Street, who was rolling up his sleeping bag before panhandling.
  — Leslie Brody, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2018
• 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
• 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
• The city also loosened bans panhandling, as well as sitting or lying down on public sidewalks.
  — Jordan Ray, Houston Chronicle, 6 Nov. 2019
• However, that ordinance didn't stop panhandling in the city.
  — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 23 Apr. 2018
• One Tulsa teacher last year resorted to panhandling to pay for school supplies.
  — Moriah Balingit, Washington Post, 15 May 2018
• 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
• 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
• Keith Smith implored city leaders to protect other families from the men and women who panhandle for money on the streets of Baltimore.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 2 Dec. 2021
• Readers sensitive to disgust became 24 points more likely to say panhandling should be banned and 23 points more likely to support bans on sleeping in public.
  — Scott Clifford, Washington Post, 14 July 2017
• Harris said in May that the boy was actually attending an Easter Sunday carnival in the area, not panhandling.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2019
• In 2019, the Montgomery City Council passed an ordinance that would have subjected people arrested for panhandling to jail time.
  — Ralph Chapoco, al, 5 June 2023
• Rodríguez said the migrants held at the facility had been rounded up off the streets earlier in the day as neighbors complained about panhandling, the Los Angeles Times reported.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 30 Mar. 2023
• Police arrested her on charges of panhandling and engaging in conduct that implies threat of injury.
  — Fox News, 28 Oct. 2019
• The zone where Florida’s peninsula and panhandle meet, at Apalachee Bay, appeared Tuesday to be drawing the advancing hurricane in like a magnet.
  — Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
• 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
• Police approached three males panhandling at a convenience store.
  — Lisa M. Bolton, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024