How to Use by the hand in a Sentence

by the hand

phrase

• Actors grabbed us by the hand and whisked us from scene to scene.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2023
• Iglesias took her by the hand, led her to the stage and sang to her.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2026
• Owens grabbed her daughter by the hand and forced her out the house, Ruiz said.
  — Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2022
• Being taken by the hand is not the same as being led by the nose.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2022
• The detective took me by the hand and placed handcuffs on my wrists once again.
  — Jeremy O. Harris, Vanity Fair, 1 Apr. 2026
• Rader takes her and Moses by the hand, moving them in a gentle rhythm.
  — The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2022
• Valery, who was a few years older, grabbed Yulia by the hand and dragged her out of the crowd.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
• Clean ramekins were stored under the paper towel dispenser by the hand sink.
  — Sacbee.com, 7 Nov. 2025
• Noticing tears, Montana shuffles over to her mom’s side and takes her by the hand.
  — Will Lanzoni, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2023
• And the very best books will take you by the hand (metaphorically) and teach you a new skill right in your own kitchen.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 14 Dec. 2023
• There’s no anchor for an audience of a lawyer taking you by the hand from one story to the next.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 27 Apr. 2022
• By her own hand, and by the hand of Officer Noonan, who shot too quick.
  — Matt Schooley, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026
• This would be the best outcome -- a change of regime from within, not by the hand of the West or even its policies.
  — James Nixey, CNN, 23 Sep. 2022
• Basil was in the thick of it, being led by the hand to his marker since the Bloater suit blocked off part of his vision.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2023
• Tyler then allegedly grabbed Bellino by the hand and forced her into a nearby phone booth.
  — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 2 Nov. 2023
• Children as young as 5, some held by the hand by slightly older peers or siblings, briskly walk in thick forests to school and then back home.
  — Farai Mutsaka, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2024
• Reading her poems is like being led by the hand through the streets of Los Angeles.
  — Cauleen Smith, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• Brittany Mahomes' baby bump has been touched by the hand of Taylor Swift.
  — Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 9 Oct. 2024
• At least, that is, until a chorus member — a girl wearing a sunflower yellow shirt — went up to her and took her by the hand.
  — Matt Stevens, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• Just try and imagine the picture properly—this enormous man, holding a little, nervous bag of bones by the hand.
  — Joy Williams, Harper's Magazine, 2 May 2024
• For our destiny is written by the hand of providence, and these first 250 years were just the beginning.
  — Time Staff, Time, 25 Feb. 2026
• So the motel becomes her theme park, a world of freewheeling joy untouched by the hand of a global corporation.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2021
• After the first plane carrying the deportees landed, the first to climb out were parents with babies in their arms and toddlers by the hand.
  — New York Times, 19 Sep. 2021
• For our destiny is written by the hand of Providence and these first 250 years were just the beginning.
  — February 25, NPR, 25 Feb. 2026
• We are either thought to be impossibly dense or so desperately in need of comforting that we shall even be led by the hand to the battery shelf.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 29 Nov. 2025
• When his halting 90-minute debate debut was over, his wife took him by the hand, escorting him gingerly offstage.
  — Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post, 7 July 2024
• New York City becomes a character in its own right, as Lehane takes the reader by the hand through neighborhood walks.
  — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2026
• Obviously made by the hand of man, some appeared quite old, with rocks settled well into the ground and even surrounded by the crumbs of their own weathering.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2021
• The first episode details the murder of Alice Ruggles by the hand of her ex-boyfriend, Harry Dhillon.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 16 Feb. 2023
• As a sandstorm and frigid winds swept Beijing this week, parents bundling infants in blankets and leading small children by the hand lined up outside a fever clinic.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2022