How to Use handout in a Sentence

handout

noun
  • The handouts had all the major points of his speech outlined on them.
  • He sat on the sidewalk asking for a handout.
  • The family wasn't interested in government handouts.
  • Democrats are fast becoming the party of handouts to the rich.
    Jarrett Skorup, National Review, 1 May 2023
  • We were given this handout during a scout school from my time with the Ravens.
    BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The answer is tough love and reform, not more handouts.
    Joe Pitts, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Before Wiman could finish with the handout, a student tried to slip in late.
    Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • State tax may be charged on student loan handout funds.
    Fox News, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Experts argue that once added to the debt, future taxpayers will be forced to pick up the tab for the handout.
    Haris Alic, Fox News, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Here is a short handout that gives information about the process.
    oregonlive, 29 Jan. 2023
  • So please be kind and patient with staff that wants to work and earn an income and not sit home and get a handout from the government.
    Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 18 June 2021
  • The room was dark, so attendees had trouble making out both the slides and a handout covered in acronyms.
    Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Not for a handout, mind you, but the insurance benefits those folks had paid for.
    al, 26 July 2022
  • At a recent food handout attended by the Kherson city mayor, a crowd was forced to lie flat on the ground amid shelling.
    Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The city closed the main mass shelter in May without a new walk-in shelter opening, sending people on to the streets with handout tents.
    Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2023
  • According to one handout, the wipes are a fabric, not paper.
    cleveland, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The pro-Beijing lawmaker stood one row behind Xi, handout photos of the day showed.
    Wayne Chang and Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 3 July 2022
  • The handouts were a reminder of the asymmetry of the unfolding primary.
    Shane Goldmacher, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
  • And education is the third one, trying to give people a hand up as opposed to a handout.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Sophia scorned the idea of leaving Kherson, and said her days are a race between three different aid handouts.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 23 Feb. 2024
  • This is not about giving one community a handout or a leg up.
    Robert F. Smith, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The usual tuxedoed ticket-seekers praying for a handout have been pushed away from the Palais, the festival hub, to clear space.
    Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 9 July 2021
  • Biden’s maneuver has been labeled a handout to the wealthy and unfair to people who paid off their loans or don’t have degrees.
    Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2022
  • At the meeting, board chair Colleen Clark announced that the district launched an investigation of the handout.
    Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Lira was forced to take a government handout to pay her electric, gas and water bills.
    Spencer Soper Bloomberg News, Star Tribune, 28 June 2021
  • More Alabama news What are the ‘pork’ handouts at the center of a Birmingham corruption case?
    Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 6 July 2023
  • This does not mean giving women a handout or a jump start but giving them the ability to have the same starting position as men.
    Nicole Serena Silver, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Registrants will receive a Zoom link and handout by email the day before the presentation.
    courant.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • But anything that looks too much like a handout from the powerful risks seeming like the stuff of robber barons and back-alley politics.
    New York Times, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Aid groups have warned that handouts are becoming more chaotic and dangerous throughout the Gaza Strip.
    Jonathan Baran, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024

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