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Example sentences for "good hands"

  • There is a scarcity of good hands, but an abundance of indifferent ones.

  • The occupation is not entirely filled by good hands, and pays well.

  • There are but few linen mills in this country, and probably in none of them is there a superfluity of good hands.

  • The clerk says they never have any difficulty in getting plenty of good hands.

  • She is in good hands, and sure of doing well.

  • It had increased her comforts by making her feel herself to be in good hands.

  • Major Hockin had been to see me last night, for he never forgot a promise, and had left me in good hands, and now he came again in the morning.

  • In a word, I accepted the Major's kind offer to see me quite safe in good hands in London, or else bring me straightway back again.

  • You are in good hands; and the cabman pulled out his watch when we stopped.

  • I noticed the frequent heavy sigh and sad countenance, and I thought he was probably very anxious over the safety of his mother, and I assured him that she was in good hands, for I knew them to be true friends.

  • Our Missourian was now in good hands, as I followed my dispatch to them with a long letter, giving William Anderson's experience in detail.

  • I am placing her, I am sure, in good hands.

  • Your daughter's in good hands,' says another, 'you know perfectly well where she is.

  • She took the ducat, saying that she was sure she was leaving her daughter in good hands.

  • A sympathetic touch on a horse's mouth can only be made by "good hands.

  • Nearly every writer on the subject of riding is of opinion that "good hands" are inborn and cannot be acquired.

  • I granted her that this was true, and a very commendable thing, provided the poor children fell into good hands afterwards, and were not abused, starved, and neglected by the nurses that bred them up.

  • I knew that I had confided you to good hands.

  • Should I have the good fortune to meet Monsieur le Vicomte in France, I shall assure him that Madame is in good hands" (he swept an exultant look at me) "and enjoying herself.

  • I am happy to see you have fallen in good hands, Richard.

  • The indefinable quality known in horsemanship as "good hands" is scarcely less desirable on the box-seat than in the saddle.

  • And you can assure me that she is in good hands?

  • It told her that Marian Holbrook was living, and in all probability safe--though by no means in good hands.

  • And you call that being in good hands, Mr. Medler?

  • After all, the property is in good hands.

  • Pinot, and knowing Monseigneur to be in good hands I obeyed a pressing summons to a poor boy whose state gives me great uneasiness.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good hands" 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:
    good actions; good bargain; good books; good cheere; good circumstances; good cousin; good deed; good design; good gods; good half; good instance; good library; good place; good preservation; good purpose; good quality; good repair; good results; good scholar; good soldiers; good space; good sweet; good usage; good youth; goodly portion; neither slavery nor involuntary