How to use "hands" in a sentence

We shake hands and continue along the trail

There are plenty of holes in the rock for my hands and feet so I climb down easily

I lie down, put my hands in two holes on the far edge of the boulder and push my legs over the opposite side to jump down.

I try to push against the boulder with both hands

He holds my arms in his little hands and together we dance around the room

Just then, I saw Ned Land, with his harpoon in his hands, climbing to the front of the ship.

He ran out of the room and his hat fell from his hands

Alice put her hands behind her back and repeated:

First, ten men with clubs in their hands came into the garden

I tried to put my hands in front of her, because there were people looking at us

I pulled the machine gun from his hands, and shouted to Doyle.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of ''interposition" and "nullification" - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal

His duty is to administer the present government, as it came to his hands, and to transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor.

By the frame of the government under which we live, this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals

In YOUR hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in MINE, is the momentous issue of civil war

Until we have wrung justice, and until we have wrung our self-respect from unwilling hands and from unwilling pens, there can be no cooperation

For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life

In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course

Catherine said, 'Good night.' And she went to meet her fate at the hands of Jack the Ripper.

The killer evidently took it with him and cleaned his hands on it

'I'll take care of myself, and I won't fall into his hands.

After warming her hands, Mrs Cox went out again

Then, his heart full of grief for what he had done, he buried his face in his hands and, for the first time in nineteen years, he cried.

When the bucket was full, she gripped the handle with her tiny, frozen hands and tried to pull it back up the hill

'She's touched it with her dirty hands!' Then, hearing Cosette crying, she turned to the little girl and shouted, 'Stop that noise!'

The old man left the inn and, minutes later, returned with something in his hands: the beautiful doll from the stall across the road.

She clapped her hands and cried, 'We've been looking for that everywhere! How did you know they were mine? Of course, the handwriting

Marius sat down and buried his face in his hands, too overcome by emotion to think clearly

Leblanc grew pale, and gripped the back of the broken chair with his huge hands

Beneath the stars, they were happy just to look into each others eyes and hold each other's hands

They would sit and hold hands and talk, or just gaze into each other's eyes and smile.

'Oh my God,' the old man cried, burying his face in his hands

With Marius lying across his shoulders, Valjean walked forward into the darkness, feeling his way along the wet, slippery walls with his hands

Then, moving to the gate, he shook it fiercely with both hands, trying to bend the bars with the last of his strength

He sank into an armchair and buried his face in his hands

She pressed his hands in hers and held them to her lips.

He released his hands.

Thenardier stared at the coat and the cloth in his hands, speechless with fear

Cosette, frightened, took his two hands in hers.

'Your hands are so cold,' she said

Jean Valjean's hands rested on their bowed heads, and did not move again

To my left I see the short fat man sit down on the floor with his hands on his head; then Robin runs to the office and kicks open the door.

Then I tie their hands, and I look at my watch

Perhaps, quickly wrap the straps around her hands

Then he feels hands on him, pushing him and moving him

She has an oar in her hands, and she is reaching it out to him.

She puts her hands on the table, and he sees that her red fingernails are chipped and bitten

She pauses for a second, and he sees her hands shake

And then he is up and runs too, and he has the bag in his hands.

"Stop!" Nick shouts, and he hands the recording device to the court clerk

The lamp in the corner of the room looks like the tall, silent figure of a murderer, and the coat on the back of your door has hands that almost touch you.

The kid screamed at first, but they gagged him and tied his hands

But then he felt school ties being wrapped around his hands and feet and mouth

No, you don't need that today," he repeats, and he takes the mp3 player from the boy's hands, and he tries to avoid the angry look in the boy's dark eyes.

With a deck of cards in his hands, Jimmy was like a magician

His hands are tied

And Hank takes Jimmy's face in his hands

She looks around the carriage: there are only eight other people there: a young couple holding hands and talking quietly on the seat opposite her; two businessmen a few seats to her right; an old lady two seats to her left; a mother and son at the far end of the carriage

Cham spread his hands

She buried her face in her hands, and burst into tears.

Then she sat down and covered her face with her hands

The journey across the city seemed to take forever; but when she arrived, Cham was waiting, hands in pockets

Mom took it and inspected it closely, turning it over and over in her hands.

In my bedroom was a book that Rebecca had held in her hands

I sat with my hands in my lap, watching him drink his coffee.

I washed my hands

She shook hands with me and said to Maxim, 'She's quite different from what I expected

As I rubbed it between my hands, the scent was sweet and strong.

As we walked along the path, drops of rain fell on my hands and face

I gave Jasper a piece of cake and took out the handkerchief to wipe my hands

Maxim took my face in his hands.

Everyone laughed and clapped their hands.

I lifted the skirt of the dress in my hands.

I shook hands with them all

I held on to the window ledge with both hands.

Be careful of your hands

My head ached and my hands were wet

Maxim held both my hands and looked into my face.

Maxim came up to me and held out his hands.

I held his hands against my heart

But our future was in his hands.

We shook hands with Dr Baker and he walked with us to the front door.

Pulling her gaze away from his, she studied her hands, which were gripping the steering wheel so fiercely that they ached.

She glared at her tightly clenched hands again and found the strength to break her grip on the steering wheel.

Her hands were icy; they chilled her sides even through her nightgown.

Anybody else tried to handle all this, they'd just end up with one goddamn big mishkadenze on their hands

Six rings bedecked each of his hands, some with diamonds, some with emeralds, one with a large ruby, one with an even larger opal

He shifted from foot to foot as he talked about Magyck! Turned this way and that, gestured expansively with his quick, gem-speckled hands, virtually doing a jig.

Magyck! Was now in the hands of the performers and technicians.

"One of two guiding hands," Tina said

"You see what he just did?" Helen asked Tina, clapping her hands with delight

Even these days, when most machines could be played with electronically validated value cards, the nickel duchesses wore black gloves to keep their hands from becoming filthy after hours of handling coins and pulling levers; they always sat on stools while they played, and they remembered to alternate hands when operating the machines in order not to strain the muscles of one arm, and they carried bottles of liniment just in case.

Vivienne backed into the wall, eyes wide, hands fisted at her sides.

This crowd wasn't able to sit on its hands and keep its cool.

A block farther, as she waited at a red light, she realized that she still had a mystery on her hands

It'll be a great promotion, don't you think?" She raised her hands, as if framing her next words, "The Golden Pyramid - a Magyck! Place for lovers."

The paper rattled as her hands began to shake.

She took hold of the two lines - one heavy cable and one ordinary insulated wire - and they seemed to come alive in her hands, like a pair of snakes, resisting her

She couldn't pour for them because her hands were shaking too badly.

She was forced to hold her brandy snifter in both hands to keep it steady.

She leaned forward, put her brandy snifter on the table, and for a moment sat with her face in her hands.

Aware that her answer had disappointed him, she looked down at her hands, which were laced together so tightly that her knuckles were white.

As he dried his hands on the towel, he said, "Why don't we forget about going out to dinner? Let me cook for you instead."

His hands moved over her, testing the firmness and resilience of her, and she touched him too, gently squeezing his shoulders, his arms, the hard muscles of his back

He explored her body slowly, deliberately, first with his eyes, then with his loving hands, then with his lips and tongue.

As he entered her, she let her hands travel over his body, along his lean flanks.

He was considerably more formidable than his associate: tall, rough-edged, with large, big-knuckled, leathery hands - like something that had escaped from a recombinant DNA lab experimenting in the crossbreeding of human beings with bears

Her hands shook

His hands were shaking.

"If I could get my hands on the son of a bitch, I'd gouge his eyes out."

Arms on the table, both hands clasped around her glass of beer, Tina leaned toward Elliot

Some people winced and put their hands over their ears.

Tina wasn't able to cover her ears; her arms hung straight down at her sides, frozen, rigid, hands fisted, and she couldn't find the will or the strength to lift them

Her hands, which had been curled into tight fists, came open once more

As the white-haired cashier grasped the plug in his arthritis-gnarled hands and wiggled it back and forth in the wall socket, trying to free it, Tina almost told him to stop

"Winning a few hands at blackjack - that's luck, just like you said

It's out of my hands

"We've got men going over the passenger lists of every outbound flight." He picked up an ivory-handled letter opener, turned it over and over in his hands

He wished they'd thought of gloves; his hands were freezing.

Carlton Dombey, a curly-haired man with a bushy mustache, stood at the window, blotting his damp hands on his medical whites and peering anxiously through one of the few frost-free patches of glass

We're not going to make the same mistake they did and wind up back in their hands."

She waited beside him, arms folded, hands tucked into her armpits for warmth.

Elliot stood, extending the pistol in both hands, and snapped off three quick rounds

They can watch our progress on that, even if they can't get their hands on us till another chase car catches up

"Listen, if I could get my hands on the people who're trying to keep us from finding Danny, I wouldn't have any compunctions about killing them

What would the elder Alexander's, the famous statesmen, think if they knew he'd soiled his hands with blood? As for the fact that it was sometimes his job to order other men to kill, he supposed his family would understand

Sandstone was rubbing his hands up and down his arms to ward off the steadily deepening chill that had gripped the room

With a few simple sentences and a sharp clap of his hands, the hypnotist brought her out of the trance.

They're going to find us sooner or later, and when they get their hands on us, they'll kill us."

Tina leaned across the corner of the table, grabbed Billy's head in her hands, pulled his face to hers, and kissed him

Tina raised her hands in an involuntary and totally useless attempt to ward off the bullets.

Hensen picked up one of the maps and turned it over in his hands

Elliot and Tina did not put their hands on the plate, but the inner door of the vestibule opened with another puff of compressed air

He moved his hands over it slowly, as if he were caressing a woman

He didn't want to tie the wounded man's hands, so they carefully moved him to a supply closet and locked him in there.

If security discovers we're here, at least they won't be able to get their hands on us for a while."

It's sick, and I'm washing my hands of it." He looked at Tina again

When their hands touched, his small fingers curled tightly around hers

With smiles, murmured assurances, and kisses planted on his frail hands, she finally managed to persuade him to tuck both of his arms close to his body.

Both Jaborski and the other scout leader decided they might have a dangerous character on their hands

The book you now hold in your hands - assuming that you are not quadridexterous and holding it with your feet - was the second book I wrote under the pen name Leigh Nichols

I was so young and naive, I assumed "network-approved writers" meant that each of these writers would be among the finest in the TV business, on the planet, in the universe, the elite of the elite, the crS232; me de la crS232; me, superexcellent wordsmiths incapable of spinning any story that wasn't the top, the ower of Pisa, the Mona Lisa, the Louvre Museum, the Colosseum! Network-approved writers! I was in the lap of God, in the hands of ministering angels, and there could be no doubt whatsoever that we would have a hit with Help, My Feet Are Stuck to the Floor in Dean Koontz's Theater or whatever it would be called.

He put his head in his hands

She put both her hands over her open mouth

you have it with you! Give it to me!' she almost shouted, seizing my arm with both her hands.

She remained quite still, looking down at her hands

It was the first time he told me about his experiments and he came running into the house and threw the ashtray into my hands.

He took the ashtray out of my hands and looked at it

I saw a ball of fire inside the transmitter and felt its heat on my face and hands

If you cannot find the dark glasses, turn away from the machine and put your hands over your eyes.

Then I saw that the hands of the clock pointed to a quarter to five, which meant that it was really half-past four, so I got up and went to the sitting room

'Oh, we'd get in first and tell him to put his hands up!' said Griselda

'Yes, the hands pointed to 6.22.'

But luckily the heat stopped him before he could get his hands on the metal

I used my hands to keep it moving, down the river towards Walton, going very slowly and often looking behind me

He got his hands on one

My brother, with red whip-marks on his face and hands from the car's driver, got up into the driving seat.

Farmers defended their animals and crops with guns in their hands

These worked like hands.

As I watched the Martians, they seemed to be trying to raise themselves on the hands, but with their increased weight on Earth this was impossible

I moved away from the hole, put my hands over my ears and ran into the hall

I stopped, on hands and knees, because we had come to the bushes.

At the thought, I lifted my hands towards the sky and began thanking God

He waved his hands in the air and shouted

Look at my hands

Now that she was better, my heart began to beat fast again when she was near me, our hands began to shake when they met.