Example sentences for: hand-to-hand

How can you use “hand-to-hand” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Binalshibh also has discussed this training in post-capture statements, describing it as hand-to-hand combat training.

  • "Form as big a posse as we can," urged Mort Kondracke on The McLaughlin Group . Juan Williams of Fox News Sunday predicted a cruise-missile attack followed by "hand-to-hand combat."

  • A particularly talented Reverend Pecksniff actually averted the destruction of his empire with a tele-tearful explanation that his debauchery was sacrificial and in the line of duty: It was on-the-job training for hand-to-hand combat with the devil!, he explained.

  • Da Mo, who was probably a legendary rather than actual figure, is also heralded as the founder of kung fu (wushu), a system of hand-to-hand combat that was later modified to produce the immensely popular form of exercise that millions practice every morning throughout China — taiqi (tai chi), sometimes called “shadow boxing” in the West.


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