How to Use on the one hand in a Sentence

on the one hand

phrase

• So on the one hand, there’s what Anne just mentioned.
  — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
• So on the one hand, attention for books.
  — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
• There is always the human form on the one hand, and lines and shapes on the other.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2025
• That seems believable on the one hand, and very unfair on the other.
  — Lorena Galliot, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 2025
• So the cruelty of the tabloids and the cost on real people’s lives, on the one hand.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 27 Mar. 2026
• Sure, there are the early wakeups, the diaper blowouts and the tantrums on the one hand.
  — Ruthie Ackerman, Time, 29 Apr. 2025
• These were relationships with men who, on the one hand, adored me for my strengths and ambition.
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2023
• Think dishwasher, on the one hand, or word processor, on the other.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
• So the show seems to suggest on the one hand that whatever is happening on the testing floor will change the world.
  — Ars Technica, 25 Mar. 2025
• Because on the one hand, there’s no bright line where a certain behavior turns into prepping, right?
  — Hady Mawajdeh, Vox, 11 May 2025
• Guns, on the one hand, make violent crime much more deadly, but at the same time, can also be used for self-defense against crime.
  — Jens Ludwig, Time, 15 May 2025
• This means two things - on the one hand, each of us can take proactive steps to assess and address our personal brain fitness.
  — Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
• What’s going on is, on the one hand, mysterious and, on the other hand, straightforward.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
• Something that, on the one hand, would pay homage to the pastries at Blackhole, but something that also wasn’t quite the same.
  — Kansas City Star, 13 Dec. 2025
• While the film is a sexy, frothy romp, on the one hand, the film also casts Doris Day as Babe, a feisty union steward.
  — Kathy M. Newman, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2025
• So on the one hand this seems like a culmination of a period of work, but also something totally new.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
• So, on the one hand, part of Hezbollah’s discourse is a commitment to anti-corruption, et cetera.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
• That recommendation is, on the one hand, entirely predictable.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
• An alcoholic mother on the one hand; a violent family on another.
  — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 23 May 2025
• This means being fair and accurate in reporting, and having a strong wall between news on the one hand and opinion or advocacy on the other.
  — Washington Examiner, 15 Dec. 2023
• Researchers found that, on the one hand, individuals who have low sleep reactivity tend to have fewer problems with sleep when they're stressed.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 6 Aug. 2023
• Brittle, impossible perfection on the one hand; apocalypse on the other.
  — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
• Talk is retiring, but it’s being replaced by something that’s very similar to Talk on the one hand, but very different on another.
  — Jake Silverstein Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024
• Meanwhile, polar bears and brown bears dominate the land — taking down seals and walruses on the one hand and moose and deer on the other — topping the list of large land predators alive on our planet.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023
• The movie’s impulses, toward naturalistic observation on the one hand and folkloric archetype on the other, don’t fight each other.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 3 May 2024
• So on the one hand, if Prigozhin had been successful, maybe there would have been some way to think about this war being wound down, some armistice, some freezing of conflict at least, maybe even an agreement on a cease-fire.
  — Gregory F. Treverton, Fortune, 5 July 2023
• How are the trends around unionization and greater investment in internal culture, on the one hand, and shorter tenures and more fractional work, on the other, interacting?
  — Talia Milgrom-Elcott, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
• Turnier noted that lawmakers had considered the move in previous years, citing problems with enforcement (on the one hand) and the prospect of a revenue increase (on the other).
  — Joseph Thorndike, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
• Life online appears to be neatly divisible, and indeed divided, into freaks on the one hand and, on the other, reasonable people such as yourself.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2026
• How irreconcilable is the clash between maintaining or building middle-class wealth on the one hand, and making housing more affordable to a wide swath of renters and would-be owners on the other?
  — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 24 Feb. 2026