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Example sentences for "her hand"

  • One motion of her hand, one tap on the pane, and she could picture the sudden change in his face.

  • She stood still, her half-folded night-gown in her hand, while the blood rushed up to her drawn cheeks.

  • He had said nothing at breakfast, but when she came out in her pink dress, the basket in her hand, he looked at her with surprise.

  • She put up her hand to her cheek, and her face was wet.

  • He was at the door, and so was she, somehow, her hand still in his.

  • Fenger saw the letter crushed in her hand.

  • Father Fitzpatrick reached over and took her hand, as it lay on the table, in his great grasp.

  • Hastily she did up the massive and shining coils, hastily donned a wrapper, and with the rushlight in her hand, stole into the hall.

  • He came towards her slowly from the window, took up her hand in his and kissed it.

  • Her hand shook in her lap, and her mind was full of incongruous and futile speeches.

  • It is quite true, as this fellow says," explained Royce, "that Miss Armstrong fainted with a knife in her hand.

  • And the truth is this: An instant after the old man was pitched bleeding out of the window, I ran into the attic, and found his daughter swooning on the floor with a red dagger still in her hand.

  • She had passed over to her sister's desk by the doorway, and was holding a sheet of blue foolscap in her hand.

  • She drew it out, holding it in the palm of her hand for a moment with tear-blurred eyes bent upon it.

  • For a few moments he sat in silence, his eyes bent upon the ground, while Jane held the little locket in her hand, turning it over and over in an endeavor to find some further clue that might lead to the identity of its original owner.

  • Immediately she turned and left the hut, and as she passed through the doorway Tarzan saw that she carried a cooking pot in her hand.

  • She arrived out of breath from the kitchen, the potato masher in her hand.

  • Little Hilda, at this time hardly more than six years of age, was with her, holding to her hand.

  • She instinctively reached out to take whatever it was, and he placed in her hand a book which she recognized as the little Testament which she had won as a prize at school and had given him when they went to school together.

  • My cousin Fanny's grandmother had stood in the door of her chamber with her large scissors in her hand, and defied Tarleton's red-coated troopers to touch the basket of old communion-plate which she had hung on her arm.

  • She buried her face in the roses she held in her hand, and did not speak.

  • Diamond took hold of her hand, and laid his face to it.

  • Her hand looked so pretty in its blue glove, that I was tempted to stroke it.

  • At one of the windows sat a beautiful lady, with her head leaning on her hand, looking out.

  • She sat with her forehead leaning on her hand, gazing out of the little window, hung like the rest with white cloudy curtains.

  • She reached down, Diamond laid hold of her hand, gave a great spring, and stood beside her.

  • Anna sat silent, so intensely aware of Darrow's nearness that there was no surprise in the touch he laid on her hand.

  • Some odd intuition seemed to make her conscious of his change of mood, for she sprang from her seat, crumpling the letter in her hand.

  • At last she seemed to hold it in her hand.

  • Some day she would find the magic bridge between West Fifty-fifth Street and life; once or twice she had even fancied that the clue was in her hand.

  • Then she took a rich silk kerchief, blue as the sky, in her hand, and went to the wide, matted hall.

  • Antonia's American ways and her habit of sitting for hours with a book in her hand were a great irritation.

  • Then her eyes sought those of Antonia, who sat at a distant window with her embroidery in her hand.

  • Antonia had a piece of needlework in her hand.

  • The resources of the store are at her hand; she goes arrayed like a queen, and feasts delicately everyday upon tinned meats.

  • Nothing here that hasn't felt the touch of her hand.

  • Ambulinia was seated by a small table--her head resting on her hand--her brilliant eyes were bathed in tears.

  • Then when he put out his hand to her, he saw a great anlace gleaming in her hand, wherefore he forbore her; and this was but five days ago.

  • And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.

  • And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.

  • And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

  • When she got it in her hand it seemed so much nicer.

  • He put the reins in her hand, and folded his arms.

  • Once these things were in her hand, on her person, she might dream of giving them up; the method by which they came might intrude itself so forcibly that she would ache to be rid of the thought of it, but she would not give them up.

  • Ann Veronica sat with her chin on her hand, red-lit and saying little, and Miss Miniver discoursed.

  • Ann Veronica sat over her fire with her father's note in her hand.

  • Ann Veronica stood in the twilight room staring at the door that had slammed upon her aunt, her pocket-handkerchief rolled tightly in her hand.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "her 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:
    earlier years; her and; her arm; her children; her conduct; her dressing; her for; her knee; her knees; her little; her lord; her love; her mind; her new; her old; her part; her the; her turn; her way; here and; here before; here given; here intended; here speaking; hereafter shall; noble prince