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Example sentences for "his hand"

  • Nor did he wait to note the effect of his assault, but leaped cat-like after his spear, his hunting knife in his hand.

  • From it he poured into the palm of his hand a quantity of glittering gems.

  • In his hand he clutched the sputtering candle, and as he took the leap the rush of air extinguished it.

  • Across the compound he ran, his revolver still clutched tightly in his hand.

  • The fact that the knife had been in his hand when it departed from Opar brought down no thoughts of vengeance upon his head.

  • Well said, Werper," and Achmet Zek slapped his lieutenant upon the shoulder.

  • As they rode off, he sat his horse in the center of the clearing watching them disappear one by one into the jungle, and thanked his God that he had at last escaped their villainous clutches.

  • His life lay in the hands of this semi-barbarian, who esteemed the life of an unbeliever less highly than that of a dog.

  • He moved about, making more noise than necessary, yet Tarzan did not awaken.

  • Mac 3:6 Wherefore the wicked shrunk for fear of him, and all the workers of iniquity were troubled, because salvation prospered in his hand.

  • And with a wave of his hand he disappeared abruptly down a flight of steps and under the shadow of a ponderous arch.

  • I am very grateful for your kindness to--to one so young,' and he offered me his hand.

  • The same afternoon the doctor came into the courtyard with a piece of paper in his hand.

  • He stood in front of his trunk, his precious silk hat in its hat-box in his hand.

  • The waiter from the cheap restaurant, hired as Maria's assistant, rose from a bending posture, a champagne bottle frothing in his hand; he was grinning from ear to ear.

  • Marcus knocked the pipe from his fingers with a sudden flash of his hand; it spun across the room and broke into a dozen fragments in a far corner.

  • When he had finished the last of his beer, McTeague slowly wiped his lips and huge yellow mustache with the side of his hand.

  • But the agent rose to his feet, a newly filled beer glass in his hand.

  • He carried his straw hat in his hand, and kept brushing his hair back from his forehead with a purposeless, unsatisfied gesture.

  • The doctor dropped back into his swivel chair, the mottled volume still in his hand.

  • The doctor took off his straw hat and carried it in his hand as they walked toward Mexican Town, across the sand.

  • In a moment a stone, soft and blue as a robin's egg, lay in the hard palm of his hand.

  • He had thought he knew that child like the glove on his hand.

  • Nephi 21:8 8 And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den.

  • And he shall be like unto me; for the thing, which the Lord shall bring forth by his hand, by the power of the Lord shall bring my people unto salvation.

  • She deemed it her crime most to be repented of, that she had ever endured and reciprocated the lukewarm grasp of his hand, and had suffered the smile of her lips and eyes to mingle and melt into his own.

  • Father laid the letter face down, his hand on it, and shook his head.

  • Then we heard their voices as they came down the creek, so Leon reached me his hand and we scampered across the water and meadow, never stopping until we sat on the top rail of our back orchard fence.

  • Now Mr. Pryor probably thought father would meet him with the Bible in his hand, and read a passage about loving your neighbour as yourself.

  • Putting up his hand, feebly, he was surprised to find the contours of his skull much the same as usual.

  • In his hand he clutched the precious book.

  • At the warm and shining face of a French rotisserie he halted to compare the number enamelled on the transom with a memorandum in his hand.

  • Well, when I saw the chef with the book in his hand, I said to him jokingly, "I see you found it again.

  • I will let the words stand, as a humbling proof that I am subject to that immutable law which compels a man with a pen in his hand to be uttering every now and then some sentiment not his own.

  • Again the incantations proceeded, and after a while the boy, being seemingly a little agitated, was asked whether he saw anything on the palm of his hand.

  • Thus guarded from isle to isle, and through Greece, and through Albania, this practical Plato with a purse in his hand, carried on his mad chase after the good and the beautiful, and yet returned in safety to his home.

  • Nat just caught sight of his hand, but couldn't stop the blow in time.

  • Knight had his note-book in his hand, and had, in fact, been in the very act of writing therein when they came in view of each other.

  • On the fine October evening on which we follow Stephen Smith to this place, a placid porter is sitting on a stool under a sycamore-tree in the midst, with a little cane in his hand.

  • She placed her feet upon the stirrup he made of his hand, and was high enough to get a view of the natural surface of the hill over the bank.

  • And when Sir Mordred heard Sir Arthur, he ran until him with his sword drawn in his hand.

  • And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.

  • And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

  • And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.

  • And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "his 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:
    annual rent; garden party; her sex; his eyes; his face; his heart; his house; his money; his servant; his two; historical development; historical fact; historical literature; historical materialism; historical novel; historical novels; historical painter; historical times; historical work; history proper; human being; ignorance and; man for; more good; other mens; returned from