How to Use hat in hand in a Sentence

hat in hand

adverb

• No more going hat in hand begging for doses from the rich world.
  — Gavin Yamey, TIME, 6 Sep. 2024
• Putin has even had to go hat in hand to Iran for military support.
  — Edward Fishman, Foreign Affairs, 23 Feb. 2023
• City officials hit up foundations and private donors for weeks, hat in hand.
  — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 26 Sep. 2020
• And having won their first game with defensive hat in hand, the Hoosiers see the sky as the limit.
  — Jeremy Price, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Mar. 2021
• They are surprised by a young man who appears on the left with hat in hand, extending a rose to the central girl.
  — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2021
• The socialist had come hat in hand asking the capitalist for help.
  — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 27 Nov. 2025
• But that was only a snapshot, and the agency only got it by going hat in hand to a private system.
  — Sharon Lafraniere, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2022
• But that was only a snapshot, and the agency only got it by going hat in hand to a private system.
  — Sharon Lafraniere, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Sep. 2022
• One such scene that resonates with our pandemic moment is when Willy goes hat in hand to his employer.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020
• Malone bops around in the background with his ubiquitous red Solo cup and camo baseball hat in hand.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2024
• This is the second time in two years that Uber has come to the court hat in hand after a tussle with the regulator.
  — Ellen Milligan, Bloomberg.com, 16 Sep. 2020
• The Coyotes could go back to Glendale, hat in hand, and hammer out less-favorable terms.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2021
• Last week, Cantrell came to Baton Rouge, hat in hand, to urge lawmakers to route more money to the city.
  — Sam Karlin, NOLA.com, 19 Oct. 2020
• More aspiring entrepreneurs come hat in hand as the competition returns.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022
• More aspiring entrepreneurs come hat in hand as the competition returns.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 18 Sep. 2022
• There’s this old narrative of entrepreneurs going hat in hand begging VCs for money.
  — Tomio Geron, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2017
• When studios were the only game in town, directors went to them hat in hand, knowing that, with large budgets at stake, their films had to be commercial.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2019
• Year after year, the district has gone, hat in hand, to Council, asking it to fill a looming budget gap caused by a structural deficit.
  — Philly.com, 9 May 2018
• By that evening in Philadelphia, Walz had the soon-to-be-viral hat in hand and tweeted a photo wearing it.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2024
• In 2009, the darkest hour, the company went hat in hand to a Mexican billionaire.
  — Karl Vick, Time, 10 Oct. 2019
• Russia would have less leverage over the rest of the world, and the White House wouldn't have to go hat in hand to monarchies whose rule is propped up by their petroleum reserves.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 11 Mar. 2022
• Advertisement Even the simplest of requests required going hat in hand to Capitol Hill.
  — Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2023
• Having to go to the Copyright Office every three years, hat in hand, to ask for permission to simply fix our stuff is infuriating.
  — Kyle Wiens, Wired, 11 Dec. 2020
• The giant that is Porsche Motorsports—from Le Mans prototypes to club racers—is smaller now, standing at the edge of the unknown, hat in hand.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 17 June 2021
• The shift broadly expanded Albany’s role in housing policy, which is why city officials go hat in hand to Albany every few years for permission to extend controls.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
• As The Sun reports, Markle was forced to keep her hat in hand for the entire match, rather than using it to block out the blazing London sun, in order to abide by royal protocol.
  — Andrea Park, Allure, 16 July 2018
• By the time Heather arrives at Ramona’s house with her Breakfast at Tiffany’s costume and hat in hand, she’s already been shunted off to the basement and is on the outs with everyone.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 25 May 2021
• And when the time came to start paying taxes, developers have returned to the city’s Industrial Development Agency with hat in hand, asking for more tax breaks.
  — Christine Wen, The Conversation, 15 Feb. 2024
• Rouse was coming, hat in hand, to the station's majority Black audience to plead forgiveness after a social media firestorm and calls to boycott his multistate supermarket chain erupted around his actions.
  — Jessica Williams | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 3 Feb. 2021
• The United States president arrived hat in hand, seeking money and promises from China’s latter-day emperor, Xi Jinping.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026