How to use "hand" in a sentence

I smile and hold out my hand, 'My name's Aron.'

It is the last time I will wave goodbye with my right hand.

It hits my left hand hard against the canyon wall

The boulder then hits my right arm and traps my hand against the right side of the canyon.

I just stand there, looking at my trapped hand in disbelief.

This might take away enough of the rock to free my hand

To free my hand, I must remove a piece of rock over fifteen centimetres wide and seven centimetres deep

I will use my ropes, webbing and carabiners to try and lift the boulder and free my hand

I can't free my hand

Mrs Ralston's hand was shaking as she put down the phone

I continue, but soon have to stop because of the pain in my left hand

The problem with using the black rock was that it hurt my left hand

But what if I tie a sock around my hand to protect it? I do this and it works

And even with the sock there is too much pain in my left hand to continue.

My right arm has no hand

I continue, trying to forget the pain in my left hand

I try to drop the rock, but the fingers of my hand won't open.

Slowly, my fingers loosen and the stone falls out of my hand

My right hand died long ago

When we first met, he shook my hand and smiled at me.

I saw the harpoon leave his hand and hit the giant creature right in its back

One tried to get in, but when his hand touched the ship, he screamed

At that moment, I felt a strong hand knock the telescope away from my eye.

Captain Nemo swam away from the rocks, with his knife in his hand, and began fighting with the animal

Then I saw Ned Land with his harpoon in his hand

One of the smaller squid knocked the harpoon out of his hand and threw Ned down

If anyone stops you, kill them." Ned Land put a fishing knife in my hand and left the room, I looked around one more time

She felt the top of her head with her hand

He had his best clothes on, and in one hand he had a white hat.

She had the White Rabbit's hat in her hand.

'I'm smaller because I've got the hat in my hand!' she thought.

Then she went to the Caterpillars mushroom and broke off some of it with her right hand

She went to the brown mushroom and did the same with her left hand.

She quickly ate a little from the white mushroom in her left hand

Then she ate some from one hand and some from the other

The King put his hand on her arm

There was the King and Queen, and a man with a very long knife in his hand.

He had a paper in his hand and looked very important

He had a teacup in one hand, and some bread-and-butter in the other hand.

Her sister's hand was on her hair.

Once I thought she was on the floor, and I put my hand on her shoulder to pull her up

She had a big smile on her face, and she held my hand.

They taught me how to shoot guns, throw hand grenades, and move along the ground on my stomach.

He was holding a hand up to me - so I picked him up and ran back to the trees with him

A lot of army people were there, and they immediately started shaking my hand and telling me that I was a brave man and that they were pleased to meet me.

After that, he began to shake my hand.

Rudolph didn't speak or open his eyes, but he put up his hand and smiled.

So he waved at me with his hand, and I went back to the bus station.

Take Sue back to Alabama with you, and start your shrimp business.' He shook my hand and gave me his address

And when I finished playing, she held the little boy's hand and came across.

Then she got up and held little Forrest's hand, and they walked away.

Recognition of that falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit; and there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing

Hand in hand with that we must frankly recognize the overbalance of population in our industrial centers and by engaging on a national scale in a redistribution, endeavor to provide a better use of the land for those best fitted for the land.

And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe - the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course - both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war.

He travels around in a hand-carriage

As she was speaking we saw the old man's hand-carriage come into sight

I saw the hand-carriage coining back towards us along the sand as she was talking

You are in great danger! You must come with me and talk to that man in the hand-carriage

I walked with her to the hand-carriage before she had time to object.

Slinkton turned quickly away from us for a second and put his hand to his mouth

The couple were talking quietly, and the woman had her hand on the man's chest

He had a bottle of beer in his hand

Bowyer put his hand in and pulled back the curtain

Barnett and Mary used to put a hand through the broken window and pull back the bolt to open the door.

On his back was a heavy soldier's bag, and in his hand was a large wooden stick.

He then put his shoes into the bag and, grasping the iron bar in his right hand, he moved quietly towards the door of the bishop's bedroom

She took Mme Thenardiers hand and said, 'Will you look after my daughter for me?'

Madeleine's hand.

He offered Javert his hand, but the inspector refused to take it

I cannot shake his hand.'

Madeleine said gently, taking her hand

Madeleine, who was holding her hand, turned and saw Inspector Javert

Madeleine's hand tightly and begged him to protect her.

Jean Valjean (as we must now call him) shook Javert's hand from his collar and ran to the bed

Suddenly, an enormous hand reached down from the sky and took the bucket of water from her

Half an hour later, the people of Montfermeil saw an old man in a tall hat and long yellow coat walking along the road to Paris, hand-in-hand with a little girl dressed completely in black

But, as she held the old man's hand, she gazed wide-eyed at the sky

Cosette took his hand, and went with him down the stairs.

He gripped Cosette's hand and began to walk more quickly

He saw a hand sticking out from a pile of dead men and horses, a gold ring on its middle finger, shining in the moonlight

The robber took the ring but, as he turned to leave, the hand grabbed his jacket

Approaching him, she rested a cold red hand on his shoulder and said, 'You never notice me, M

Turning, Marius saw that a hand was holding it open.

Marius, meanwhile, raised his right hand with the gun, ready to fire the warning shot.

Leblanc's right hand and, producing a pen and paper, began:

Marius stared, frozen with fear as Thenardier, knife in hand, stood hesitating a few steps away from the prisoner

Thenardier was advancing towards his prisoner, knife in hand, when his wife cried, 'Something fell!'

Marius jumped up and took her by the hand.

He pushed it into her hand, but she opened her fingers and let the coin fall to the ground

Cosette, feeling her body close to his, took his hand and pressed it against her heart

He could not speak, and Cosette felt his hand grow cold.

He fell on his knees in front of her and pressed her hand to his lips.

Neither did he see, at the moment the soldier fired, a young boy dressed in rags jump in front of the gun and fall wounded as the bullet meant for Marius hit him in the hand.

She showed him the bullet hole in her hand.

'But I put my hand in front of his gun.'

'The bullet passed through my hand,' Eponine murmured, 'but it came out through my back

She pressed her hand to her chest, from which blood was pouring like dark wine

She took hold of Marius's hand with her wounded hand and, without seeming to feel the pain, guided it to her pocket, from which he took the letter.

Valjean, his gun in one hand, pulled Javert behind him over the barricade and into a narrow alley, where the corner of a house hid them from view

Soon, the ground below the barricade was piled with dead and wounded men as the rebels and soldiers fought hand to hand

His eyes closed and, in great pain, he felt a hand grab him as he fell.

Sword in hand, surrounded by soldiers, he refused to surrender

It was Jean Valjean's hand that had caught him as he fell

While in this state of despair, Valjean felt a hand on his shoulder

He looked round quickly and saw a tall man in a long coat, a large stick in his hand

While one servant ran to find a doctor and another looked for clean sheets, Valjean felt Javert's hand on his arm

'I have the honour, on behalf of my grandson, Marius Pontmercy, to ask for your daughter's hand in marriage.'

On the other hand, if he continued to lie about his past, he would lose his own soul

'Monsieur, you are very kind,' said Jean Valjean, shaking Marius's hand and leaving the room.

He was even more surprised when, instead of chasing him out of the room, Marius ran towards him and pressed several thousand-franc notes into his hand.

I raise a hand to my face and feel a short nose and a small mouth

I carefully lift my hand and touch the large lump which is there

Maybe he is his friend, his partner, and I am about to run when I see the small gun in his hand.

I can see Robin's gun appear in his hand, and then I am inside too, and I pull the door shut.

Gerry pushes open the door of the small Australian pub and steps onto the terrace with a pint of cold beer in his hand

Then two tall, strangely dressed men walk into the shade of the terrace, one with three dead rabbits in one hand and a long rifle in the other.

The box shuts in an instant, and then the gun is in his hand.

And a map in his hand.

"Jesus," Nick says before he can stop himself, and the girl sees him and closes the mobile phone in her hand.

Maybe there is something we can do to make you forget this? Maybe you can take me for a drink." Then she smiles and takes his hand

For a second he does not know what to say, but he knows what to do, and he pulls his hand away and moves to the door

Your hand is nearly on the light switch when you hear another noise from the room

He looks at his right hand on the steering wheel

His shirt has a little blood on it, and his hand is sore

He looks at his hand again and tries to make a fist, but it hurts.

He saw the blood, but there was only a little, and his hand hurt

"I suppose it's this road: the desert makes it easy to forget to watch your speed," he says, and he thinks he sees the cop look at his hand.

But in the reflection of the red paint he sees the cop raise his hand, and in the soft evening light he sees the knife, and for a moment he does not understand.

He wants to put his hand in his coat pocket, but he has to keep the grey pistol ready.

"My husband went for the money," says the woman, rifle in one hand, black hat in the other

Wait one moment," Hank says, and he puts his hand on Jimmy's head, and Jimmy tries to move away

Then he laughs, and the two assistants laugh, and then the back of Hank's hand slaps Jimmy's face hard

She could say with her hand on her heart that this year - her eighteenth - had been the best so far

The woman reached for Sala's hand and slipped a small package into it

"No idea." Sala stared down at the little package in her hand

Sala greeted her, then held out her hand

She broke it down the middle, and the little dried fruit fell out into her hand.

He reached out for her hand

unless..." She waved her hand

Hand in hand, they went inside the apartment

But as she stepped off the walkway, she felt a hand touching her back.

As Sala reached for the last one, another hand reached for it at the same time

A thin hand

"Wait." Mom put a hand on Sala's arm.

"I promise." He took Sala's hand and they walked on a little

you're still going to do this?" she demanded, waving her hand toward the pod center.

Sala touched Cham's hand with a sad smile, then followed Kaz back to the entrance

"Place your hand on the screen, one at a time," said Leti.

She lifted her hand

Cham moved stiffly forward, took the screen from his dad, and lifted his hand

She watched silently as the red light disappeared under Cham's hand

Cham reached for her hand

On the one hand, she could now see a future full of possibilities..

"Cham." Sala held his hand

Gran held her hand and Mom put an arm around her shoulders

A waiter came in with a note in his hand

I ran down the stairs, holding my gloves in one hand

I was glad and I held the book tightly in my hand

I stood up slowly, the book in my hand

Suddenly de Winter took my hand and kissed it

When I said this, Maxim laughed and put his hand over mine.

Maxim took my hand

I smiled at him and took his hand

The hand she placed in mine was cold and heavy, like something dead.

My hand was shaking

Here we sat together, Maxim and I, hand in hand

Beatrice took my hand

Jasper ran on ahead and took the right-hand path without waiting for us.

We turned on to the left-hand path, not saying anything

I held Maxim's hand

I took his hand and held it tight.

I picked up the slippers and held them in my hand.

Mrs Danvers' hand fell back to her side.

I smiled and held out my hand to him.

I took his hand in mine.

She was holding a piece of paper in her hand

'My dear,' she said, 'are you all right?' I put a hand up to my head and took off the wig

She took my hand and held it.

I took his hand and held it against my face.

I held his hand tightly.

It was Mrs Danvers, holding the menu in her hand

Mrs Danvers came back with a small book in her hand.

Colonel Julyan came up to me and took my hand.

Tomorrow will be a long day.' He held my hand for a moment, but he did not look into my eyes

His hand shook as he lit a cigarette.

Unaware that she was staring at him, the boy put one hand to his mouth and bit gently on his bent thumb knuckle, which Danny had begun to do a year or so before he died

Holding the gun in her right hand, she went quietly to the bedroom door.

She gently squeezed Tina's hand

Elliot, this lovely young lady is Christina Evans, the guiding hand behind Magyck!"

On the other hand, he was handsome, and in his face was an appealing gentleness

She pulled her hand away and examined her damp fingers

She pulled her blouse out of her slacks and used the tail to protect her hand from the icy metal doorknob

A glittery fantasy could metamorphose into a crude, tasteless, and stupid bore if the wrong hand guided it

She wiped one hand across her face, sloughing off a film of perspiration

She dried her hand on the sheets.

Turning away, she left him in the sunshine, with the ice cream melting down the cone and onto his hand.

Reaching toward her with a hand that would be cold and damp

He took her glass out of her hand

This time she was able to hold the glass in one hand.

Elliot put his hand on her shoulder and squeezed gently

She put a hand on his arm

She slid a hand between them, squeezed and stroked him.

The smell of her, the vibrant blue of her eyes, the feel of her supple skin as he put a hand to her face - those things generated waves of affection and longing within him.

Vince scratched his concrete-block chin with his shovel of a hand and then reached inside his jacket

Vince held the pistol in his right hand and made a fist with his left

Elliot glanced at Bob, who was still standing at the breakfast table, the packet of syringes in his hand.

The big man's head snapped back, and Elliot chopped the exposed Adam's apple with the flat blade of his hand

He rammed his knee into his adversary's crotch and tore the gun out of the bear-paw hand as those clutching fingers went slack

He still had the silencer-equipped pistol in his hand, and he decided to keep it.

He put a hand against her back, gently but firmly urging her out of the foyer.

Elliot put a hand on her shoulder, stopped her, and turned her around just as they entered the bedroom

She snatched her hand off the knob as if she had almost picked up a tarantula.

She tightened her grip on the horror-comics magazine in her left hand

She took his hand in hers, squeezed it

Her hand was cold, but her grip was firm.

Tom's hand stopped short of the button.

Elliot took her hand

The traffic light changed to green, and Elliot reluctantly let go of her hand.

Ideally, I'd even like to be able to hand the reporter a neat theory about what really happened to those scouts, something sensational that he can hook his story onto."

Then she wiped it away with the palm of her hand.

Her hand shook when she raised her glass to drink the last of her own Coors.

He reached across the table and put his hand over hers

Elliot turned away from the cashier and put a hand on Tina's shoulder

Elliot shook the machine harder than he had done the last time, then harder still, but it continued to repeat the two-word message in the voice of the country singer, as if an invisible hand were holding the pick-up stylus or laser-disc reader firmly in place.

He put a hand on her shoulder

She slipped a hand behind his neck, holding his face close

The marked ticket in his hand was worthless; he hadn't taken it to the betting window, hadn't wagered any money on it

He reached into a pocket of his leisure suit and took out a tiny aerosol can that was only slightly larger than one of those spray-style breath fresheners, small enough to be concealed in Bruckster's hand.

Bruckster held his hand eighteen inches below Michael Evans's eyes, so that the dealer was forced to glance down to see what was being shown to him.

On the one hand, she behaved as if she did not know the truth

But on the other hand, she was working through Stryker to have her son's grave reopened, which seemed to indicate that she knew something.

Alexander, on the other hand, was the scion of a Pennsylvania family that had been wealthy and powerful for a hundred and fifty years, perhaps longer

Alexander hesitated with his hand on the phone

Then as he had signed for the rental car and picked up the keys from the night clerk, he had kept one hand in a pocket of his coat, gripping the handgun he'd taken off Vince in Las Vegas - but there was no trouble.

Elliot held his hand to the vent

Elliot put his right hand against the dashboard vent

But the last few days it's gotten completely out of hand

And the Russians giving them a hand to earn some foreign currency

I know," Dombey said wearily, pushing one hand through his bush of curly hair

Elliot took the pistol out of his coat jacket and held it in his right hand

With his left hand, he fumbled for the two safety catches, released them

He kept one hand on her back as she leaned toward the window, and he felt her go rigid when she glimpsed the dead man

Tina put a hand on his shoulder

A neatly folded pair of twenty-dollar bills, placed without ostentation into the hand of a front-desk clerk, was almost certain to result in the timely discovery of a forgotten vacancy.

"You should be glad you killed that bastard," she said softly, squeezing his hand.

Kurt Hensen, George Alexander's right-hand man, dozed through the rough flight from Las Vegas to Reno

His time was enormously valuable to the country; his work was sensitive and often-required urgent decisions based upon first-hand examination of information to be found only in distant places

George, on the other hand, hadn't filled a post of genuine stature and authority until six years ago, when he was thirty-six

A ghost supposedly guides your hand to deliver a message from beyond

Except, I don't need a ghost to guide my hand

Half an hour and five maps later, Tina's hand suddenly skipped across the paper as if someone had bumped her arm.

She felt a peculiar pulling sensation that seemed to come from within her hand, and she stiffened in surprise.

Her right hand, in which she held the pen, grew rapidly colder than any other part of her

Abruptly her hand swung across the map, then back, then described a series of circles; the pen made meaningless scrawls on the paper

After half a minute, she felt the power leave her hand again.

Tina got up from the bed, massaging her cold right hand

He held his hand in front of Tina's eyes.

All Sandstone did was move one hand slowly back and forth in front of Tina's face, simultaneously speaking to her in a quiet, rhythmic voice, frequently using her name.

The hypnotist lowered his hand and turned his ring around as it belonged

"You will remain totally passive until you feel the urge to use the pen in your hand."

Tina lowered her gaze from the empty air to the map, and her hand began to move

As Tina's hand moved slowly over the paper, the corners of the map began to curl and uncurl again.

Still poring through the test results, stroking his mustache with one hand, Dombey said, "Listen to this..

The plateau was basically the work of nature, but man's hand was in evidence

A camera and two-way video communications monitor were mounted in the left-hand wall of the vestibule

Beside the monitor was a lighted glass plate against which the visitor was supposed to place his right hand, palm-down, within the existing outline of a hand

He thrust it between two of the side rails, and he opened his small weak hand beseechingly, reaching for love, trying desperately to touch her.

Danny became excited when he saw her drawing near, and in spite of his terrible condition, he shakily thrust himself into a sitting position, clutching at the bed rails with one frail, trembling hand, eagerly extending his other hand toward her.

Putting one hand on the boy's back to press him against her, she discovered how shockingly spindly he was each rib and vertebra so prominent that she seemed to be holding a skeleton

Danny's hand tightened on Christina's, and she stroked his head, soothing him

Dombey pushed one hand through his thick, curly hair

This time, he cuts off your right hand

By the time the latest washing-machine-frenziedcat-dead-beloved story was delivered, no creative energy remained for the job at hand

But there was no possible doubt because the fingerprints of his left hand were the same as those found all over his laboratory and up at the house.

Refusing even to look at his closed hand, I ordered him to release it immediately.

My hand shook as I picked it up because I knew by then that something must be terribly wrong

His left hand knocked the desk twice.

Instead of his hand, a grey stick like the branch of a tree hung out of his sleeve, almost down to his knee.

In my hand was a page of explanations: what I had to know about the steam hammer

'Thank you.' He shook my hand

Worried, I stretched out a hand towards him.

His eyes were looking at the note in my hand and I have never seen such pain in any human being's face.

I want the truth-' He banged his hand on a table.

When he had gone, Mrs Lestrange also got up and held out her hand to me

We went up the path until we came to a new place where it looked as though someone had left the path on the right-hand side

'Oh, yes!' She held out her hand

But I did not put the jewel into her hand

'They came by hand after lunch,' she said 'All except one

I crushed the paper in my hand and threw it into the fireplace just as Griselda entered the room.

Across the top was written: By hand - Urgent.

If only that note had said something different.' She moved towards the window and on her way put her hand into the pot of a rather tired houseplant

'On the floor - where it had fallen from his hand.'

But mother - well, I shall be with her till the end...' She got up and I held her hand

'Don't, dear!' said my wife, putting her hand on mine.

I remember the dinner table that evening very clearly even now: my dear wife's sweet, worried face looking at me from under the pink lamp-shade, the white cloth laid with silver and glass, the glass of red wine in my hand

A woman pushed at me with her hand and rushed past me

I put my hand out and my fingers closed around a bottle of wine.

I almost screamed, but I bit my hand

He put out a hand and I took it.

'You are a brave man.' And suddenly I held his hand

They just used to rush off to work - I've seen hundreds of them, with a bit of breakfast in their hand, running to catch their train, frightened they'd be sacked if they didn't

The soldier paused and laid a brown hand on my arm.

The hand that hung over her knee was cut, and blood had fallen onto her dirty brown dress

'I knew-knew -' She put her hand to her throat and started to fall

We may, on the other hand, still be destroyed by the Martians

And it is strangest of all to hold my wife's hand again, and to think that I have thought of her, and that she has thought of me, among the dead.

Holmes, with a laugh, put his hand behind the ear of the little girl, and pulled off the mask, and there was a little coal-black girl

She laughed, and I laughed too, but Grant Munro stood staring with his hand holding his throat.

He lifted the little child, kissed her, and, with the little girl in his arms, he gave his other hand to his wife.

He finally had the nail in his hand, but it fell on the floor.

She got into the carriage, then turned to me and kissed my hand

'Mr Hartright?' she asked, shaking my hand

She kissed my hand and said, 'I'll always wear white! It'll help me to remember how kind you've been to me!' Poor little soul!'"

I stood up quickly, feeling the same sudden fear I had felt when that hand touched my arm at the lonely crossroads

Take my hand

He folded the document and placed it on the desk with his hand resting on the folded part

Her face was pale, her hand was trembling, and her eyes looked at Laura with hatred

'Let's forget about it,' he said, then he took my hand and put it to his lips

Count Fosco put his hand into the desk and took out a gun

"Now I have a pistol in my left hand and a sword in my right hand

"Let me kiss your hand." Zorro takes her small hand and kisses it

Captain Ramon takes her hand and says, "Don't run away, Lolita

He has a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.

He has a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.