What is "handshakes"

Usage examples of "handshakes".

The universe, wounded, heals itself with a new set of handshakes, working forward in time, until it is complete and self-consistent once more.

On their return in glory, after the medals and the handshakes from the prez, they would all be retired on fat pensions, with a full entitlement to sell their stories to the highest bidders.

These two, with their perfunctory fast handshakes, made Henry feel like the small fry he was.

Nobody would have blamed them, in view of their limited time, for vanishing after a round of handshakes, but they evinced no impatience for the joys of their new state.

Then he left, after cour y handshakes all around, as Byron gathered up his sheaf of documents and paid the fees.

Victor Henry walked around the table for handshakes, and came last to Palmer Kirby.

He had known it would be this way, that by coming to Richmond he would be pulled into it, hear it firsthand, that men with oil in their voices would take him aside, greet him with fat handshakes, take him into their confidence, seek his valuable approval, the influence of a powerful, respected man.

In the camp itself there had been cheering, the glad hugs and enthusiastic handshakes, but Lee had greeted his son more with relief than happiness.