Example sentences for: hands

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

  • In the United States, at least, transport by car and train is mostly slower than it was then (trains are one area in which the French have beaten us hands down--if we had their high-speed TGV train, you could come down from Boston to see your grandchildren in Washington with a two-hour train ride, instead of the seven-plus Amtrak currently takes).

  • He was not as charismatic as Nassar and, though he had a more moderate stance, became embroiled in several unsuccessful short wars with Israel that severely weakened the country and left the Sinai region in Israeli hands.

  • All differences between those published protocols and our parameters were tested to verify if they were responsible for the toxicity observed in our hands, but that was not the case.

  • In her delightful study, Theories of Discourse , Diane Macdonell describes how after the French revolution the bourgeois came to realize that, if the lower orders took seriously the slogan Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité , their wealth might fall into the hands of the wrong people.

  • Using an experimental group and a control group, researchers would compare levels of pesticides found in settled dust, on children's hands, and in their blood, urine, or hair.


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