How to Use hand in a Sentence

hand

1 of 3 noun

• Do you need a hand?
• She put her hands over her eyes.
• These gloves will keep your hands warm.
• He sat quietly with his hands folded in his lap.
• Her knees, back, and hands ached.
  — Lizzie Johnson, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
• Has got a good body, good hands.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2026
• Why not wear them on your hands?
  — Christina Perrier, InStyle, 27 Feb. 2026
• Bronze has her head in her hands.
  — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
• The bones in my hands ache with the strain.
  — Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
• Her chin slumped in the palm of her hand.
  — Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
• On one hand the deal made sense at the time.
  — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 30 May 2026
• My hands slip around the grinder, which tips open.
  — Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
• What has eight legs, eight hands, and eight eyes?
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
• The left hand will be at the top of the club.
  — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026
• In fact, the prudes among us might need hand fans.
  — Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
• Their best bet is to play the hand they were dealt.
  — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 13 Feb. 2026
• The faucet at the hand sink was sticky to the touch.
  — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado updated January 23, Sacbee.com, 23 Jan. 2026
• But that was the hand I was dealt.
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Feb. 2026
• Tenev prefers to write his thoughts down by hand each night.
  — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 13 Mar. 2026
• Will Smith won a game with one hand.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
• Craft kits can be a good item to keep on hand for kids.
  — Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2025
• This moment may now be at hand.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026
• The man looked down at his own hands, which felt heavy and coarse.
  — Weike Wang, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
• Fastball in on the hands for strike two.
  — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 23 May 2026
• But things can sometimes get out of hand.
  — Will Oremus, The Atlantic, 16 May 2026
• The time is at hand for all involved.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 16 May 2026
• That's when things begin to get out of hand.
  — Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
• Hold the steering wheel with both hands.
  — Brian Sherrod, CBS News, 19 June 2026
• This is a guy who took action with his own hands.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
• About holding hands through change.
  — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026

hand

2 of 3 verb

• Done right, these wines hand the place back to you.
  — Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• When life hands you lemon seeds, plant a lemon tree.
  — Nashia Baker, Martha Stewart, 31 Mar. 2026
• They had been handed a tough case to win.
  — Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
• Ball’s team refused to hand any of it over.
  — Charlotte Observer, 1 May 2026
• The clerk handed me my key, still made of brass.
  — Rick Bragg, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2026
• For many years, young men were handed clear scripts.
  — Emma Green, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
• Nobody’s just gonna hand you a win, hand you a game.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2026
• Throw some skelly, hand the ball off, play on third downs.
  — Jordan Sigler, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
• Mars in Scorpio hands us the tools.
  — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 21 Sep. 2025
• Mk2 is not a place that hands its screens to anyone.
  — Tyler Chou, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
• Percy hands the fleece to Clarisse.
  — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
• New York was short-handed again.
  — ABC News, 13 May 2026
• Then dial the number and hand him the phone.
  — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
• Then his dad came over and handed him a piece of paper.
  — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
• Myke hands her her acoustic guitar and gives her a kiss.
  — Allison P. Davis, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025
• Both attachments were easy to hand wash when we were done.
  — Mark Marino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 Mar. 2026
• You're handed a pamphlet and sent on your way.
  — David Oliver, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
• Jill would print them out and hand them off to law enforcement.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
• Paul came over with chocolate breath and handed her the phone.
  — Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• This district was not handed to us.
  — Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 11 June 2026
• On his first day there, he was handed the yogurt shop file.
  — Austin Sanders, Austin American Statesman, 21 Feb. 2026
• Some shook their head when they were first handed the headsets.
  — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 17 June 2026
• Charleigh inwardly winced and froze in place, hand still on the knob.
  — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
• Innings four and five saw the Tigers plate four runs and hand me a loss.
  — David Troy Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2026
• Others hand you the entire job.
  — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 23 June 2026
• But the Senate may be about to hand Warsh a hall pass.
  — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
• Stafford handed the ball to Williams, but he was stopped short of the first down.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
• Find the funniest kids in the room, hand them the keys, and get out of the way.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 30 Apr. 2026
• Learn how to use these tools, but don’t hand them the keys to your company just yet.
  — Jj Rosen, Nashville Tennessean, 12 Oct. 2025
• The weather broke one plan and handed us a better one.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2026

hand

3 of 3 adverb

• The steak tips are still hand-cut and tender and the bar pours a killer martini.
  — Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 6 Sep. 2019
• Inside, tables are lit with candles and strewn with flowers hand-dipped in wax.
  — Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 16 May 2019
• That particular smudge stick was a gift to my roommate from a close friend who hand-picked the flowers for her.
  — Nicola Fumo, GQ, 29 Jan. 2018
• The Braves' successes go hand-in-hand with the Phillies' failures.
  — Si.com Staff, SI.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• Albert Wen, 17, of Irvine High, who hand-picked the squad, said his team plans to win it.
  — Greg Mellen, Orange County Register, 23 Apr. 2017
• The dairy farm that contributes the milk to the chocolate-making process is a co-op of more than 60 farmers, many of them women, who hand-milk cows every day.
  — Julia Sayers, AL.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• The roses are carefully hand-picked by women who each collect around 40 kilograms (88 pounds) of flowers per day.
  — CNN, 22 June 2017
• On a drizzly night, a trio of friends sat down on maple-wood seats hand-built to resemble those in the courtyards of traditional Korean homes.
  — Becky Cooper, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2017
• The former director of admissions and vice provost who hand-delivered the acceptance letter for his son during a football game.
  — Mark Zeigler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Apr. 2018
• The roof’s cedar shingles were hand-cut to replicate the size of the original shingles, and ridge caps were not used so as to perfectly reproduce the original roofline.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 12 May 2017
• Belmont Books, which opened in June 2017, plays host to local authors hand-selling their own favorites, as well as scavenger hunts, tours, and more.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• Gulluni said although investigators had been hand-digging through areas of the property Friday morning, no other remains have been recovered.
  — Jerome Campbell, Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2018
• Sarah Lee, Co-founder of Glow Recipe explains that she’s even seen workers hand-fold sheet masks with tools on a completely sterile assembly line (after going through a decontamination shower), of course.
  — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 28 Mar. 2018
• The chief pollinators of the lettuce garden that the farming pioneer Frank Bienkowski planted more than 200 years ago, the bees go hand-in-hand with the fresh produce offered on the menu throughout the summer season.
  — Discover Magazine, 6 July 2018
• While the rest of the world grappled with the truth that there was trouble in their billion-dollar paradise, Beyoncé and Jay-Z welcomed a set of new twins and graced industry events hand-in-hand throughout 2017.
  — refinery29.com, 12 Mar. 2018