Example sentences for: hands

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

  • To interrogate Hillary about the news of the day--a report in the Washington Post that a Secret Service agent had seen Bill and Monica alone together in the Oval Office--would have seemed to add insult to the injury she presumably had suffered at the hands of her husband already.

  • Animals need muzzles to carry things and to gnaw on their food, whereas possessors of hands can make a fire to tenderize their viands.

  • He hands her the Big Mac, grabs the phone.

  • And the NYT presents the author of Time Bomb 2000 , who hands a visitor (= the Times reporter) a free copy.

  • Old-timers recall that Giannini, who kept his desk on the banking floor itself, made loans to working people after inspecting their hands: If the loan applicant had callused hands that meant he was working, and he got the loan.


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