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Handicap
"Handicap" in a Sentence (18 examples)
Having no will is the worst handicap.
Poor eyesight is a handicap to a sportsman.
You can get over the handicap soon.
Poor sight is a handicap to an athlete.
He's good. His handicap is in the single digits.
She seems to be laboring under the family handicap.
The blind young man has got over his handicap.
It still is true that men can start small enterprises, trusting to native shrewdness and ability to keep abreast of competitors; but area after area has been preempted altogether by the great corporations, and even in the fields which still have no great concerns, the small man starts with a handicap.
The blind young man has overcome his handicap.
You play golf? What's your handicap?
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Age is often a handicap.
Captain Edward Carlisle[…]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze,[…]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
The older boy won, even though his opponent had been granted a handicap of five meters.
A handicap in chess often involves removal of the queen's rook.
Eventually the elephant and camel were depatched by themselves with two laps start of the bicyclist and horse, the motor car being scratch. It was a sensational race owing to the conduct of the field, but on the handicap the elephant won, bicycle second, motor car third.
Here some of us fell to handicap, a sport that I never knew before, which was very good.
The candidate was handicapped by her lack of experience.
Grandpa Andy would buy the racing form the day ahead of time so he could handicap the race before he even arrived at the track.
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