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Example sentences for "one hand"

  • The next day, though the weather was of the worst description, he went trudging in great storm-boots back to their house, carrying in one hand a basket of pecan nuts and in the other a toy, which he left for his little sick friends.

  • I have a fan in one hand, while I wield a pen with the other, so excuse brevity.

  • He was dressed as a mail guard, with a wig on his head and most enormous cuffs to his coat, and had a lantern in one hand, and a huge blunderbuss in the other, which he was going to stow away in his little arm-chest.

  • Bob Sawyer, suddenly appearing at the door, with a small leathern knapsack, limp and dirty, in one hand, and a rough coat and shawl thrown over the other arm.

  • He came in with a teacup in one hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other.

  • The old lady soon made her appearance, with the teapot in one hand, and a plate of butter in the other.

  • Von Funkelstein, without another word, put the fingers of one hand lightly on the plate beside Mr. Arnold's.

  • He strode on securely, carrying a candle in one hand, and the keys in the other.

  • Hugh handed him the letter with one hand; and when he had read it, held out the fourpenny piece in the other hand, to be read likewise.

  • One hand rested on the belt, while the other held a small square box.

  • He gave a half-articulate cry; in one hand he crumpled up the paper, the other flew to his revolver.

  • She stood listening with parted lips, and holding the door in one hand, till her eyes, growing accustomed to the obscurity, discerned the wild brandishing of their boughs by the adjoining trees.

  • She reddened so intensely as to pass the mild blush that suffices to heighten beauty; she put the yellow leather glove on one hand, took up the hook with the other, and sat down doggedly to her work without turning her face to him again.

  • He holds a crosier in one hand, and raises the other, with fingers uplifted, in act of benediction.

  • Those who could not sit at tables sat on the ground, with a link of an eatable I have already named in one hand, and a mug of beer beside them.

  • But it was startling to see this excellent hearted Quakeress coming on board, as she did the last day, with a long oil-ladle in one hand, and a still longer whaling lance in the other.

  • Outside of the bulwarks their eager crews with one hand clung to the rail, while one foot was expectantly poised on the gunwale.

  • His father keeps a cookshop here by the Stone Bridge, and you know there was a large icon of God Almighty painted with a scepter in one hand and an orb in the other.

  • Alpatych moved forward and next time the official came out addressed him, one hand placed in the breast of his buttoned coat, and handed him two letters.

  • One hand moved as if to clutch the window sill, but refrained from touching it.

  • He again bent over the Girl, one hand on her left wrist, the other over her heart, his eyes on her lips, watching the depth and strength of her every breath.

  • Beside the dog walked the Girl, one hand on his head the other holding the flowing white robe around her and grasping one of the Harvester's lilies.

  • Then with a floor brush in one hand, and a polishing cloth in the other, the Harvester tapped at her door and helped the Girl upstairs.

  • One hand was on the panelling and the other fluttered to his mouth.

  • He squeezed his forehead with the fingers of one hand.

  • The class was startled by the sound of paper being viciously torn, and looked up to see Miss Winchelsea white in the face, and with some very small pieces of paper clenched in one hand.

  • He stood on the carpet in the middle of the room, clutching his hat and stick in one hand; the other hung lifelessly by his side.

  • He took me at once into a dressing-room next door, where I saw a big fellow in a heavy overcoat sitting all alone on a chair, and holding his hat and stick in one hand.

  • With his hat and stick held in one hand he glanced about, passing his other podgy hand over his uncovered sleek head.

  • She took no particular notice of the big one, but the other was a fair, slight chap, carrying a tin varnish can in one hand.

  • With a polyglot Testament in one hand and a phrase-book in the other, he groped his way among the speakers of eleven European languages.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "one 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:
    first journey; great anxiety; immortal soul; one but; one day; one else; one foot; one knew; one knows; one man; one may; one might; one moment; one night; one occasion; one pound; one side; one single; one thousand five hundred; one thousand seven hundred and ninety; one time; one volume; one was; one will; shirt sleeves; three drops