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Example sentences for "hander"

Lexicographically close words:
handcuffs; hande; handed; handedly; handedness; handers; handes; handful; handfull; handfuls
  1. Volunteer batteries bombarded each, but Jan's batsman eventually requested the other volunteers to wait while the left-hander gave him a little practice.

  2. He had also watched Jan bowling in the one game in which he had played on the Upper, thanks to the departed Sprawson, and he had his eye on the young left-hander with the queer individual action.

  3. As a rule the ball comes straight to the fielder and at great pace, but usually with very little twist on, though occasionally, when a left-hander is bowling, the ball swerves a good deal.

  4. Jackson, who had kept an excellent length for some time at that end, suddenly made two balls nip back very quickly, and then the left-hander was immediately brought on.

  5. Without a moment's hesitation, he sprang in again and planted a severe left-hander between his opponent's eyes.

  6. When in this condition, Dominick suddenly delivered first a left and then a right hander into what is sometimes called the breadbasket, and stretched his adversary on the sand.

  7. The Giants never regard Sallee as a left-hander with men on the bases.

  8. The next inning the big left-hander was still thinking of that dog, and the Pirates made five runs.

  9. I adopted the Flaherty movement, but it is harder for a right-hander to use, as he is not in such a good position to whip the ball to the bag.

  10. One of the prime virtues of this type in the eyes of single-hander writers, is, that such craft are good sea boats.

  11. The typical single-hander is a coarse-lined, heavily built craft, with complicated gear and divided canvas.

  12. This is exactly what the typical single-hander is not.

  13. I remember once seeing a small cutter-rigged, single-hander trying for several hours to beat round Matinicock Point against a head sea and wind.

  14. But we have a left-hander with Indianapolis who is going places, too.

  15. Each had great pitching, with an eighteen year old right-hander pitching for Kansas City and an eighteen year old left-hander for the home team.

  16. The right-hander with Kansas City looks like he's going to develop into a great pitcher.

  17. That last left-hander knocked him out,' said the old man, with a grin of qualified approval, while a strange expression lurked in his evil eyes.

  18. Young Linn was left-handed--and a left-hander is a bad proposition, in a fight.

  19. So what did he do but stop and whirl and with a straight left-hander knock the boy sprawling.

  20. They were sportsmen; they were prepared to run across in the middle of the over; but even so, the preparation of a field for a left-hander was a lengthy business.

  21. Unless the left-hander were got out at once there seemed to be no chance of winning; this fact the village appreciated.

  22. It was an impossible run, and the left-hander stood, in startled dismay, a few steps outside the crease.

  23. Either the left-hander must get out, or he himself must get down to the other end; and so off the first ball of the next over Roland backed up closely.

  24. He soon discovered his mistake, for no sooner had he done so than he received a straight left-hander from Frank, right on his big red nose.

  25. But the left hander is beginning to lose his length a little, and pitches them up; so the batsmen may get a chance of "opening their shoulders.

  26. That feint of death, vigorous resurrection, and terrific right-hander electrified the garrulous Karl, who is tireless in praise of Oswald's prowess.

  27. A terrific left-hander shoots out, encountering the jaw of our swaggering tough, who strikes the resounding planks with little ceremony.

  28. Before he could recover Billy followed him up with a left-hander on the forehead and a right-hander on the chest, which last sent him over on his back.

  29. A minute and you'll have a back-hander that'll put you to sleep, Maitre Dormy.

  30. German's right eye that is where I will put it and not in their stomach or miss them all together like I was a left hander or something.

  31. You'll be in form again, the greatest left-hander in the business.

  32. Let's have a little three-hander while we're waitin'.

  33. Yes in a way no doubt they are, though one of my friends, a left-hander of course, used to say that the supposed difficulty is only a convenient excuse invented by right-handed fencers.

  34. The left-hander on the contrary, when it comes to fighting, is never rid of the far graver risk which he takes by exposing his left side.

  35. The left-hander prefers to take the inside engagement, that is to say quarte.

  36. But the genuine Black Hander (the real Camorrist or "Mafiuoso") works alone or with two or three of his fellow-countrymen.

  37. Meanwhile the Black Hander is arriving almost daily, and we have no adequate laws to keep him out.

  38. The same name is used by the Black Hander to-day for his "assistant" or "apprentice" who actually commits a crime as that by which he was known under the Bourbons in 1820.

  39. To-day the apprentice or "helper" of the Black Hander is termed a picciott' in the clipped dialect of the South.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hander" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.