How to Use two-hander in a Sentence

two-hander

noun
  • The drive home to the foothills was a two-hander in the storm.
    Alan Gionet, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025
  • And the two-hander aspect of it is just off-the-charts brilliant.
    Rob Turbovsky, Vulture, 26 July 2021
  • But the movie is really a two-hander — a duet between a man and his cage.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Is this a two-hander, Simon and Trevor?
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
  • For me, their stories are like a two-hander, because both men are driving our show.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The play is a two-hander that, while set in the modern day, has a nebulous sense of time and space.
    Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • What’s the joy and terror of a two-hander, of having to rely so much on each other?
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The project is described as a two-hander, so Blunt would be playing one of the leads in the project.
    Justin Kroll, Deadline, 13 June 2024
  • The project is seen as a two-hander and sources say that Monroe the first choice for the role of nanny.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Details on Youssef’s part are being kept under wraps though sources say the show isn’t a two-hander.
    Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2024
  • Ultimately though, this is a two-hander on a journey to the center of the heart.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The flagship [series] did not really allow for the time and the space for a two-hander.
    Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Plot details are being kept in solitary, but the film is being described as a two-hander set in a prison.
    Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2025
  • The two-hander follows the relationship between the pair over the course of five decades.
    Dave Quinn, People.com, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The project could be an ideal vehicle for an A-lister two-hander.
    Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The sequel is also now a Finney and Gwen two-hander, which enhances the stakes.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Like in the first season, though, the ultimate villain reveal was a two-hander.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 20 June 2024
  • The trailer offers wider audiences their first glimpse of the intense two-hander.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
  • This is essentially a two-hander.
    Jada Yuan, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Plot details remain unknown other than it being described as a two-hander rom-com.
    Justin Kroll, Deadline, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Plot details are unknown other than it being described as two-hander action thriller.
    Justin Kroll, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The film appears to be a two-hander between Cruise and Atwell, who are at odds yet must team up to survive in the scene.
    Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Circle is a two-hander action thriller about assassins from the future hunting each other through time.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 June 2024
  • Project details are under wraps, but it is understood to be a contemporary crime two-hander.
    Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2025
  • Her co-star in the two-hander, Laura Linney, was left out of the category.
    Gordon Cox, Variety, 10 June 2023
  • But there’s also something for the casual viewer, the one who doesn’t much care about match cuts or dolly shots or the meaning of two-hander.
    Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
  • Fair Play is mostly a two-hander carried by Dynevor and Ehrenreich.
    Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Immediately the challenge of doing a two-hander grabbed him.
    Leigh Nordstrom, Footwear News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The Life and Loves of Edith Wharton was a personal two-hander project of hers that toured for many years.
    Clare Fisher, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The pieces span nearly two decades, from the mid-two-thousands to last year, and each one is a two-hander of sorts, between Nelson and an artist or a work of art.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2024

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