Sentence examples of "handfuls" in English
Translations:
all5
poignée5
Many of the world's seven thousand or so languages are spoken only by handfuls of living people and are in danger of extinction.
Beaucoup des environ sept mille langues du monde ne sont parlées que par quelques poignées de personnes vivantes et sont menacées d'extinction.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Une poignée de soldats vaut toujours mieux qu'une poignée d'arguments.
The boy gathered a handful of peanuts and put them in a small box.
Le garçon rassembla une poignée de cacahuètes et les mit dans une petite boite.
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