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Example sentences for "each hand"

  • Grasp the sculls, one in each hand, by the handles, and bend your body forward until your head is well over your knees.

  • You now take a set in each hand, presenting them to the two persons requesting them to replace the drawn cards.

  • By having two bats, one in each hand, this becomes a game of considerable skill, and will tax the concentrated attention of the player to the utmost.

  • Close the fingers and thumb of each hand, and make the hands slightly hollow.

  • Hostjoghon carried a turkey wand in each hand, and these he waved over the invalid’s head and hooted; this was repeated four times, and each time the gods ran out of the lodge.

  • Hold the pinched index and thumb of each hand as in Time, but half an inch apart.

  • Search me (Hold the coat flaps open, one in each hand).

  • This is Human tracks; for Horse tracks, sign Walk with the index and thumb of each hand in a three-quarter circle, other fingers closed, and then add See as here.

  • The beef cattle, milch cows, and heifers were used as draft animals, but were of little service, and it was found necessary to place another sack of flour on each hand-cart.

  • While their bodies were swaying in the breeze, Slade's wife suddenly appeared mounted on a fine horse, with a cocked pistol in each hand, determined to attempt a rescue.

  • The company set forth from their camp on the 18th, and on each hand-cart was now placed a ninety-eight pound sack of flour, as the wagons could not carry the entire load.

  • American deaf-mutes indicate the ears by placing two fingers of each hand on each side of the head and moving them backward and forward.

  • First, the two indifferent cards are taken, one in each hand, and next, the king in the right hand.

  • The pack is taken in two halves, one of which is held in each hand.

  • The rest of the cards may be left to chance, until the five are dealt out to each hand.

  • I used to tote one bucket on my head and one in each hand.

  • She carried one bucket on her head and one in each hand.

  • I used to tote water--one bucketful on my head and one bucketful in each hand.

  • And do you know, when my baby was born it had six fingers on each hand.

  • The figure carved upon the bottom represents a monster holding a skull in each hand, while others hang from his knees and elbows.

  • Alone, he had been attacked by three armed men, but with a pistol in each hand he had compelled them to retreat.

  • Came forward slowly, shortsightedly, a foil in each hand.

  • It so happened that her negro husband possessed a sixth digit on each hand, but there was no peculiarity of any kind in the white man, yet when the mulatto child was born it actually presented the deformity of a supernumerary finger.

  • Voight records an instance of 13 fingers on each hand and 12 toes on each foot.

  • Figure 124 represents an exhibitionist with congenital suppression of four digits on each hand.

  • Annandale relates the history of a woman who had six fingers and two thumbs on each hand, and another who had eight toes on one foot.

  • The apparatus being thus arranged, the experimenter grasps the cylinder of wood firmly with both hands, at the same time dipping the fore-finger of each hand in the saline water.

  • I made the ladies go to bed, and, sitting at their door, tried to sleep as well as I could, a pistol in each hand.

  • To remove the oyster course, take in each hand a plate, with its oyster dish and spoon, and carry to pantry, until all are removed.

  • Take the luncheon plates, one in each hand, until all are removed.

  • Take in each hand a cereal dish and plate, until all are removed to the pantry.

  • Making one bound (for this little princess was as active as a squirrel), there sat Europa on the beautiful bull, holding an ivory horn in each hand, lest she should fall off.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "each hand" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    each angle; each bearing; each brigade; each club; each compartment; each country; each cupful; each floor; each instant; each must; each occasion; each pound; each prison; each school; each session; each student; each succeeding; each successive; each suit; each tree; each tribe; each type; each unit; each volume; individual dishes; usually appointed prime minister