How to Use hand tool in a Sentence

hand tool

noun
  • Stolen items include hand tools and a boat motor.
    Lulu Jaeckel, Twin Cities, 29 Nov. 2025
  • Store hoses and hand tools in a shed out of inclement weather.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Smaller items, such as seed packets, gloves, and hand tools, should be corralled into clear bins.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Nov. 2025
  • There are many ways to break it up, ranging from using strictly hand tools to renting a wood chipper.
    David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 8 Jan. 2026
  • There’s a great selection of hand tools, power tools, safety equipment, and more on the site.
    Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Then, firefighters with hand tools and infrared technology checked the area for heat.
    Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The company conjures weathered ranch homes, hand tools and arts and crafts when describing the color.
    R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Many of the different Kryptonite locks claim to be able to stand up to bolt cutters and other hand tools meant to defeat chains and locks.
    Bestreviews, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The captain suggested possibly bringing hand tools or a backpack filled with water up the hill to extinguish any hot spots.
    Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Another tell-tale sign of hard soil is having difficulty penetrating it with hand tools and small equipment.
    Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 23 May 2026
  • Visible from more than half a mile away, the oversized hand tool sits about 15 minutes from the Coachella festival grounds.
    Audience Editor, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Unlike other gardening hand tools, forks aren’t exactly designed to be used for manual labor.
    Ashley Chalmers, The Spruce, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The Gamba family spent hours clearing debris from their property, working late into the night with chainsaws and hand tools.
    Abby Dodge, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Detectives used ground-penetrating radar and dug the property using hand tools, the sheriff’s office told CNN at the time.
    Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 10 May 2026
  • Inside, hand tools, musical instruments and partially completed papier-mache projects are everywhere.
    Ryan Steven Green, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
  • The program includes 250 hours of classroom instruction on subjects such as how to read construction blueprints and construction math, plus 50 hours of hands-on training with power tools and hand tools.
    Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • However, measures in place to limit the spread, such as regular handwashing and social distancing, are not followed at the artisanal mining sites, where work to extract gold is done by workers using basic hand tools like shovels and pans.
    ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • New Britain, once the hub of the country’s hand tools and power tools industry, will lose its last remaining hardware factory this year when Stanley Black & Decker’s plant on Myrtle Street shuts down.
    Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 8 May 2026
  • New Britain, once the hub of the country’s hand tools and power tools industry, will lose its last remaining hardware factory later this year when Stanley Black & Decker’s plant on Myrtle Street shuts down.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2026
  • In Gaza City, community elders, mokhtars, local dignitaries and civil defense crews gathered Tuesday for a mass funeral after the recovery effort that was accomplished with a single excavator and simple hand tools.
    Bilal Shbeir, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2026

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