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Example sentences for "hands and"

  • On hands and knees he was creeping now from beneath the workbench.

  • Jimmie Dale slipped his black silk mask over his face; and with extreme caution, on hands and knees, began to climb the stairs.

  • Jimmie Dale darted forward, reached the side of the house, and dropped on hands and knees.

  • Billy, once on top, contented himself with crouching on hands and knees.

  • Tired and languid from the morning in the sun, she found herself thrilling to his touch and half-dreamily deciding that here was a man she could love, hands and all.

  • She was aware only of the brutishness of this man's hands and mind.

  • When I asked them about it they only laughed and shouted, and the little girls clapped their hands and kissed me.

  • Gania seized his head with both hands and tottered to the window; Varia sat down at the other window.

  • Surely what Rogojin said about you is not really true: that you would crawl all the way to the other end of the town, on hands and knees, for three roubles?

  • The Prince called to the postillions to drive on, while he caught the Queen's hands and asked if the fright had not shaken her, but the brave royal heart only made light of his alarm.

  • On the appearance of the couple they were received with clapping of hands and waving of handkerchiefs.

  • He was received with eager clappings of hands and wavings of handkerchiefs.

  • When Sherkan heard this, his heart was sore troubled and he alighted from his horse, in amazement, and kissed the recluse's hands and feet.

  • Curio considering that he had gained his point, rushed forth to the people exulting with delight, and the people received him with clapping of hands and threw on him chaplets and flowers.

  • But when Cato recovered and saw this, he pushed the physician away, and tearing the bowels with his hands and at the same time rending the wound he died.

  • For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

  • Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.

  • Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.

  • I was crawling toward the thing on my hands and knees, without having even been conscious that I had moved.

  • Then I drew up my hands and let my face rest on them, like a dog with his head on his paws.

  • I crawled on my hands and knees, no faster than a snail, feeling every inch of the ground.

  • I unwrapped the poncho; then, crawling on my hands and knees, searched about the ground.

  • I'd rather go hungry," I declared, washing my hands and arms in the cool water.

  • I was greatly fatigued, and began to wash my hands and feet [in the fountain].

  • So fur so good," grunted the old man, crawling out on hands and knees, the scent-bottle between his teeth.

  • He flung through the air, the sea glancing sickeningly miles below, and landed on hands and knees on the green carpet.

  • Down he went, slithering on hands and tail, picked himself up towards the bottom, and ran away into the shade of the wood to find himself among silver-grey beech-stems.

  • Kit found himself on hands and knees, banged, dripping, dizzy, in a hiss and turmoil of waters.

  • Kit stayed on hands and knees on the grass plateau, his forehead bowed to the ground in attitude of prayer.

  • Facing the moving cars, with empty air at his back and the depth beneath, Tim tried to drop on hands and knees.

  • And simultaneously Lute ducked and went under the piano on hands and knees.

  • Young Dick, quick and sure in all his perceptions and adjustments, dropped on the instant to hands and knees on the trestle.

  • With the remaining hundred pounds on his back, he arose on hands and knees.

  • All about Smoke men tripped and fell, and several times he pitched forward himself, jarringly, on hands and knees.

  • On hands and knees, sinking first one arm and then the other, he made an effort to crawl to where the small sack of flour had fallen.

  • He crept on hands and knees, or stood upright and fell forward in the direction of the squirrel that chattered its wrath and fled slowly and tantalizingly before him.

  • There was something of value at stake now, and my mind was as busy as my hands and eyes.

  • I grasped the rail of this with my hands and drew my body slowly up, endeavoring to keep to one side out of the direct range of light.

  • The memory of that scene seemed to stiffen my nerves; I had to make good here in the dark, alone, and so, on hands and knees, I began creeping slowly up underneath the tangle of bushes.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hands and" 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:
    artillery formation; cannot believe; could remember; course not; desperate struggle; each color; frontal attack; hands and; hands clasped; hands employed; hands together; hands upon; handsome building; handsome face; handsome fortune; handsome girl; handsome house; handsome present; handsome woman; handsomely bound; moist woods; relations between; supreme ruler; unless thou; west corner; with such