How to Use special handling in a Sentence

special handling

noun
  • These items require special handling and storage, which many thrift stores can't provide.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2025
  • These items require special handling and storage, which many thrift stores can't provide.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Most personal items don’t require any special handling or care.
    — Christopher Elliott, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Bags containing firearms had red tags fastened to them at the airport for special handling.
    — oregonlive.com, 29 July 2019
  • Best of all, these details are not exclusive to a special handling package.
    — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 2 July 2020
  • The good news is that most canvas tote bags can be cleaned in the washing machine and don’t require much special handling.
    — Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Bonds required special handling, and nobody else could have done what Baker did.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 24 Oct. 2020
  • But these surfaces require the same special handling that nonstick pans require.
    — Christa Glennie, wsj.com, 26 Dec. 2023
  • VPNs should work without special handling.
    — Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • This setup needed a special handling system and a custom counterweight to keep the rotor steady as it was lifted to its final height.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 1 June 2026
  • IRAs and other qualified funds take very special handling to ensure that you do not get hit with taxes or penalties.
    — Dallas News, 8 Nov. 2020
  • The exception is electronics, which will require special handling.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 26 June 2024
  • Office equipment can include servers, printers, computers and other items that require special handling.
    — Anar Mammadov, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • But when memory is marked as not present, the permissions-checking terminates early, bypassing this special handling.
    — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 14 Aug. 2018
  • Bulk orders are the norm, as are complex shipping requirements, like special handling, delivery instructions and large, heavy items that require freight shipping by sea or rail.
    — Ryan Lee, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • For example batteries need to be removed from cellphones and older, cathode-ray tube television sets require special handling due to their lead content.
    — Carina Woudenberg, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2021
  • Operations knew the product required special handling.
    — Matt Emma, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
  • While some do require special handling, the vast majority of orchids are easy to grow, especially in our San Diego climate.
    — Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2022
  • As for classification level, the ranges are from confidential to top secret to special handling categories, the person added.
    — Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Vehicle type impacts costs, with larger or heavier vehicles requiring special handling.
    — Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Washing fine china can be stressful, in part because delicate items require special handling, and also because these pieces hold significance or value.
    — Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Dec. 2024
  • How to Wash Throw Blankets Check the care label to see if the blanket requires gentle washing, cold water, or any special handling.
    — Emily Benda Gaylord, The Spruce, 2 Jan. 2026
  • But liquid oxygen has to be kept at super-cold temperatures, requiring special handling and insulation to prevent boil-off as it is loaded into the rocket.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 11 June 2024
  • Trudeau noted the Moderna vaccine does not need some of the extra special handling requirements of the one from Pfizer, including ultra cold freezers.
    — Rob Gillies, ajc, 15 Dec. 2020
  • The museum’s galleries and library archives were sealed off from smoke damage through special handling systems, and officials said that the double-walled construction of the galleries protects the artwork.
    — Matt Stevens, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The need for special handling of biopsies was raised during a call between federal health officials and state officials and clinicians in late August, Davidson said.
    — Lena H. Sun, The Denver Post, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Along with the questions above, other factors that should be considered are distance traveled, number of stops, types of equipment, returns/vendor pick-ups, special handling, and delivery requirements.
    — Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The Pfizer vaccine is 95 percent effective, but requires special handling, and most be kept in special freezers and dry ice at extremely low temperatures.
    — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Amazon could quickly apply its order-fulfillment and distribution capabilities to pills, which usually don’t need special handling like cold storage.
    — Joseph Walker, WSJ, 29 June 2018
  • Now, Virgin Orbit has tested its entire launch system, including the liquid nitrogen fuel tanks that cool the entire system and require special handling.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Apr. 2020

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