How to Use in hand in a Sentence

in hand

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• The second-year coach showed up to his presser with a dog in hand.
  — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 25 July 2026
• Many were simply sitting or walking around with friends, snow cones or slices of pizza in hand.
  — Diamy Wang july 18, Charlotte Observer, 18 July 2026
• The Whitecaps still hold a game in hand and own the tiebreaker on goal differential.
  — Harold Gutmann, Mercury News, 23 July 2026
• Walk the beach with coffee in hand, explore the town in the afternoon, then relax with dinner and ice cream.
  — Kara Nesvig, Parents, 15 July 2026
• There's not much that's better than sitting on a back porch on a warm summer evening with a glass of wine in hand, chatting with friends.
  — Elliott Harrell, Southern Living, 1 July 2026
• Celebrities had their sandals on and designer purses in hand on Friday.
  — Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 25 July 2026
• Argentina came out strongly again at the start of the second half, playing accurately with ball in hand.
  — ABC News, 4 July 2026
• And Bobo can breathe a little easier down there, especially now with that contract in hand.
  — Greg Dudek, Boston Herald, 19 July 2026
• Perhaps, 126 years from now, this essay will seem like the latest such exercise in hand-wringing.
  — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
• Rarely are these tributes to a proxy advisor review committee or a management task force armed with checklists in hand.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 6 July 2026
• Benny, the facility dog, works paw in hand with child life specialist Martha Hartz.
  — Zuri Primos june 29, Kansas City Star, 29 June 2026
• Nothing beats the thrill of chasing the blinking bugs in grandma’s backyard in the dark, zooming around with Mason jars in hand.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 27 July 2026
• The cartoon for that month showed a uniformed military official lounging coquettishly on a bed, phone in hand.
  — Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 10 July 2026
• The neighborhood favorite was packed with locals lingering over a long Thursday lunch, glass of wine in hand—exactly my kind of place.
  — Kasey Busiel, Vogue, 17 July 2026
• The next shot showed Alba relaxing at an outdoor table with an Aperol Spritz in hand.
  — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 9 July 2026
• Moreover, the timeline for doing all this is roughly analogous as well – a matter of weeks, once the fissile material is in hand.
  — Ilan Berman, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
• Aboard a small, design‑forward river ship, the journey becomes a moving gallery—champagne in hand—where each bend of the river reveals a new composition.
  — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
• The Canton, Ohio, native has a job offer in hand from Kalitta Air in Michigan.
  — Bill Chappell, NPR, 9 July 2026
• And since autumn is probably the most exciting season to dress for, having the season’s essentials in hand is, well, essential.
  — India Roby, Glamour, 28 July 2026
• The team returned home this week — taxidermied raccoons in hand — after a 2-1 loss in extra time to the Three Lions.
  — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2026
• But from then on, Nolte was never late and showed up every day in the same outfit — a trench coat, T-shirt, sweats and Nike turf shoes — with a notebook in hand.
  — Cj Moore, New York Times, 1 July 2026
• Simons said guests remain interested in celebrating with a beverage in hand.
  — Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
• Watching the body-camera footage released by police shows a woman with what looks like at least one large chef’s knife in hand while opening a glass sliding door from the single-family home’s patio.
  — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026
• There's nowhere else to be at sunset, reclined on a beanbag, cocktail in hand, as the Maldives' paint chart of bright blues morphs into a canvas of ambers, pinks, peaches, and golds.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 June 2026
• Bonmatí had taken in this edition of the World Cup as a pundit and approached the midfielder with compliments in mind and a microphone in hand.
  — Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 20 July 2026
• With binoculars in hand, linger a little longer among the Pleiades and the nearby celestial jewels—an ancient sparkle waiting quietly above the waking world.
  — Joe Rao, Space.com, 10 July 2026
• Coughenour left jail with medications for his anxiety, his Medicaid card in hand and appointments already on the calendar.
  — Julie Wernau, NPR, 22 July 2026
• Investigations of the outbreaks that followed pinned them on shortages of protective equipment, lapses in hand hygiene and overcrowded units.
  — John Drake, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• Many mornings Landon Thome can be found in the batting cage in his Chicago-area backyard, his father, Jim, a few feet away with a baseball in hand.
  — Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 10 July 2026
• While the right technique for cutting can go a long way, nothing will have quite as much impact on the longevity of your blooms than choosing the right time to hit your garden with a bucket of lukewarm water and your sharpest shears in hand.
  — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2025