How to Use glad-hand in a Sentence

glad-hand

verb

• One was Mike Rawlings, the city’s glad-handing former mayor.
  — Tad Friend, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
• There’s the slick, glad-handing publisher of Hamptons magazine, and the feisty Citarella market scion who would love to have her picture featured in its pages.
  — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2026
• Rectitude is a hindrance in the game of electoral politics, where money greases the slippery pole and glad-hands welcome the winner with inside information.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 Aug. 2026
• Even if Alex Murdaugh is a monster, how did South Carolina’s Low Country, with its good-ol’-boy networks and slipshod, glad-handing business practices, allow his monstrosity to flourish?
  — Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
• Beginning tonight in Miami, Dokoupil begins a glad-handing tour of America, which means CBS Evening News will be filmed live (for the East Coast/tape-delayed for the west) in a new studio each night (for a little while, at least).
  — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 6 Jan. 2026