What is "handed out"

Usage examples of "handed out".

It was a motto handed out liberally by both the Nazis and the Allies.

The guards had handed out barf bags before they retreated to the front of the shuttle, ensconcing themselves behind a steelglass barrier.

He imagined his picture on telephone poles and milk cartons, fliers handed out at malls, as his parents sought desperately some information about what had happened to him.

As the awards for this year were being handed out, the next generation of science-fiction writers, with all the individuality, power, and vitality that is traditional in this literature, were in the field and being heard from.

Then, in the darkness, the pastor handed out fragrant bundles of soft cedar twigs, gotten from Sotans by trade.

The young woman who handed out the morning edition, the same woman who had been handing him the paper for as long as he could remember, the woman with the glass eye, smiled at him.

But at least the penalties couldn't possibly be as bad as what Gul Marak would have handed out.

Brooke, after he had handed out Lady Chettam, and had returned to be civil to a group of Middlemarchers.

On election day, I handed out cards for him in my neighborhood, as close to the polling station as the law would allow.