Hands-in Sentence Examples

hands-in
  • She paused, sucking in a deep breath, and then threw her hands in the air in defeat.

    0
    0
  • He stuck his hands in his back pockets and frowned, his gaze searching hers.

    0
    0
  • Later, when everyone had left, Yancey took Lisa's hands in his.

    0
    0
  • Spencer shoved his hands in his pockets and stared at the ground.

    0
    0
  • He tucked his hands in his pockets and stared at his feet.

    0
    0
  • Darcie folded her hands in her lap and stared at them.

    0
    0
  • He tucked his hands in his back pockets and shuffled his feet, the color in his face deepening.

    0
    0
  • Claudette folded her hands in her lap.

    0
    0
  • Mary threw her hands in the air.

    0
    0
  • He jabbed his hands in his pockets and looked away.

    0
    0
    Advertisement
  • She folded her hands in her lap and stared at them.

    0
    0
  • I held both her hands in mine.

    0
    0
  • Please, Elizabeth, remove all of your clothing; everything and come to the door with your hands in front of you.

    0
    0
  • She swallowed her other questions and twisted her hands in her lap, distraught.

    0
    0
  • She shoved the phone and her hands in her pockets to keep them warm as she picked her way through the littered alley.

    0
    0
    Advertisement
  • His lips turned more demanding, and he took her hands in his.

    0
    0
  • Jule took her hands in his and rested them on his thigh.

    0
    0
  • She sat on one of two fold-out chairs in the concrete room, legs crossed and hands in her lap.

    0
    0
  • He wanted to warn the young man to wear a bulletproof vest and keep his hands in his lap for protection.

    0
    0
  • We were so damned settled it was a given we'd be holding hands in our wheel chairs.

    0
    0
    Advertisement
  • When Carmen continued to stare at her, she threw her hands in the air.

    0
    0
  • When Carmen didn't respond, she threw her hands in the air and rolled her eyes.

    0
    0
  • Daniela folded her hands in her lap, her irritation at him replaced by interest.

    0
    0
  • Rhyn threw up his hands in surrender.

    0
    0
  • Another image flashed, and Deidre gasped, covering her face with her hands in an effort to block it.

    0
    0
    Advertisement
  • He snatched both hands in one of his, balancing her with his body as he placed his other hand against her forehead.

    0
    0
  • She sat very still on the dark grey bed, her legs folded and hands in her lap, and stared at Evelyn.

    0
    0
  • She perched on the edge of one table, fidgeting hands in her lap and bright features alert as she focused on some point on the screen.

    0
    0
  • She was dressed in a tattered coat, hands in her lap, sitting as nervously as an immigrant awaiting deportation.

    0
    0
  • He squinted and folded his hands in prayer.

    0
    0
  • He threw up his hands in defeat and disappeared upstairs.

    0
    0
  • She made her way to him and put both hands in his hair.

    0
    0
  • He stuffed his hands in his pockets and rounded his shoulders.

    0
    0
  • Carmen threw her hands in the air.

    0
    0
  • Alex watched him suspiciously when he lifted his hands in submission, but Josh moved around him and left the house.

    0
    0
  • She jammed her hands in her pockets.

    0
    0
  • He stooped to rinse his hands in the pond and smiled up at her.

    0
    0
  • She tucked her hands in her back pockets and stared at the floor.

    0
    0
  • She shoved her hands in her pockets and walked inside.

    0
    0
  • She threw her hands in the air.

    0
    0
  • Taking both his hands in hers, she focused on his intent gaze.

    0
    0
  • Katie threw her hands in the air and rolled her eyes.

    0
    0
  • Washing her hands in the kitchen sink so that she wouldn't disturb him, she sneaked a peak in the refrigerator.

    0
    0
  • Warmth crawled up her neck as she put his sandwich on the table and watched him wash his hands in the kitchen sink.

    0
    0
  • Rolling up his shirtsleeves, he washed his hands in the kitchen sink.

    0
    0
  • He gripped the bowl between his knees then took one of her hands in both of his.

    0
    0
  • She returned to the couch and dipped her hands in the water.

    0
    0
  • He said nothing but shifted to hold both her hands in one of his.

    0
    0
  • He took her calloused hands in his, his gaze falling to her arm again.

    0
    0
  • Katie sighed and threw her hands in the air as she turned away.

    0
    0
  • He tucked his hands in the pockets of his gray suit.

    0
    0
  • Born on the 25th of August 1530, he was proclaimed grand duke on the death of his father (1533), and took the government into his own hands in 1544, being then fourteen years old.

    0
    0
  • Silk.The silk industry occupied f34,000 hands in 1901.

    0
    0
  • Leather.Tanning and leather-dressing are widely spread industries, and the same may be said of the manufacture of boots and shoes, though these trades employ more hands in the department of Seine than elsewhere; in the manufacture of gloves Isre (Grenoble) and Aveyron (Millau) hold the first place amongst French departments.

    0
    0
  • Later on it came into the possession of Naples, but passed into Roman hands in 326, when Naples herself lost her independence.

    0
    0
  • But the problems are admittedly complicated, and since one is necessarily dependent upon scanty narratives arranged and rearranged by later hands in accordance with their own historical theories, it is difficult to lay stress upon internal evidence which appears to be conclusive for this or that reconstruction.

    0
    0
  • Thus was begun the Second Crusade, 1 under auspices still more favourable than those which attended the beginning of the First, seeing that kings now took the place of knights, while the new crusaders would no longer be penetrating into the wilds, but would find a friendly basis of operations ready to their hands in Frankish Syria.

    0
    0
  • Marash passed with the rest of Syria into Egyptian hands in 1832, and in 1839 received fugitives from the defeat of Nizib, among whom was Moltke.

    0
    0
  • In 1799 a new edition was brought out by the Society, and he managed to secure 700 copies of the io,000 issued; the Sunday School Society got 3000 testaments printed, and most of them passed into his hands in 1801.

    0
    0
  • As a result of this compromise the budget of 1899 was passedlin little more than a month, and the commercial and tariff treaty with Austria were renewed till 1903.2 But the government had to pay for this complacency with a so-called " pactum," which bound its hands in several directions, much to the profit of the opposition during the " pure " elections of 1901.

    0
    0
  • However, in 1625-1626 it is definitely recorded that the viscounts carried their coronets in their hands in the coronation procession from Westminster Hall to the Abbey church.

    0
    0
  • That they retained the laying on of hands in their spiritual baptism was an inconsistency which their orthodox opponents did not fail to note; the human hand, argued the latter, is, like the rest of the body, no less the work of the evil creator than water, oil, bread and wine, or than the wood, metal and stone out of which altars, images and churches are made.

    0
    0
  • The incident strengthened Prince Albert's hands in trying to carry out sundry domestic reforms which were being stoutly resisted by vested interests.

    0
    0
  • The PseudoIsidorian idea being that all lay control over things ecclesiastical is wrong, all transferences by laymen of ecclesiastical offices or benefices, even though no money changed hands in the process, were now classed as simony (Humbert, Adversus Simoniacos, 1057-1058).

    0
    0
  • As may be imagined, they carried their lives in their hands in case of discovery.

    0
    0
  • The announcement of his determination caused the Opposition to rally against him, and when on the 18th of November the Liberal party adopted a " guillotine " motion by a show of hands in defiance of orthodox procedure, a section of the party seceded.

    0
    0
  • While his edition was passing through the press, it was observed by the present writer that all the while the work had been in our hands in Greek, though in a slightly abbreviated form, as it had been imbedded as a speech in a religious novel written about the 6th century, and entitled "The Life of Barlaam and Josaphat."

    0
    0
  • Hosiery manufactures, a characteristic Border industry, with its chief seat at Hawick, employed 11,957 hands in 1901.

    0
    0
  • The psychologist and the formal logician do indeed join hands in the denial of a real movement of thought in syllogism.

    0
    0
  • That view is based on these works of fiction, of uncertain date and authorship, which seem to have been worked over by several hands in the interest of diverse forms of belief.

    0
    0
  • The horses (very numerous) are small but strong; they are generally about 14 hands in height.

    0
    0
  • The importunate expectations of a masterpiece or masterpieces in painting or sculpture, which beset him on all hands in Florence, inclined him to take service again with some princely patron, if possible of a genius commensurate with his own, who would give him scope to carry out engineering schemes on a vast scale.

    0
    0
  • In 1598 the fortress was unsuccessfully besieged by the Turks, but it fell into their hands in 1660 and was recovered by the Austrians in 1692.

    0
    0
  • Here they did not attempt to repeat their old charges, but found a more effective weapon to their hands in a new charge of a political kind - that Athanasius had threatened to stop the Alexandrian corn-ships bound for Constantinople.

    0
    0
  • While propaganda and counter-propaganda were busy throughout northern and central Kurdistan, in May 1919 Sheikh Mahmud, who conceived that he had received ill-treatment at British hands in his capacity of governor of southern Kurdistan, effected a coup de main by which he filled Sulaimani town with Persian Kurd freebooters.

    0
    0
  • First in importance are its locomotive and engineering works, which give employment to some 20,000 hands in 90 factories.

    0
    0
  • He rendered a signal service to William by inducing the princess to offer to leave the whole political power in her husband's hands in the event of their succession to the English crown.

    0
    0
  • The Godolphin Barb or Arabian, as he was commonly called, was a brown bay about 15 hands in stature, with an unnaturally high crest, and with some white on his off hind heel.

    0
    0
  • He clenched his hands in his lap and shook his head, the way Jonny did when he refused to confide in her.

    0
    0
  • After a moment, she ventured into the dark with her hands in front of her, to keep from running into a wall.

    0
    0
  • The country raised its hands in horror at such extravagance.

    0
    0
  • Even so, the bulk of the tantalum market is, literally, in our hands in the form of the latest hi-tech gizmo.

    0
    0
  • Both beginners and old hands in the Craft who need strength and comfort will benefit from this practical guidebook.

    0
    0
  • Over the coals hands in the users google gulp.

    0
    0
  • Home Buyers Guide First Steps to a move This year around 1.5 million British homes will change hands in the annual property merry-go-round.

    0
    0
  • Only Otík's hands in their little woolen mittens are sticking out, and crumpling up the lace on the blanket.

    0
    0
  • Did with the aged hermit toil, With their own hands in daily moil, Hard laboring rude the barren soil.

    0
    0
  • In crowded areas make sure all bags are zipped and keep your hands in your pockets to avoid pickpockets.

    0
    0
  • Not shaking hands in this highly formal context would appear rude.

    0
    0
  • Slowly straighten keeping the hands in contact with the floor.

    0
    0
  • I paint with casts of hands in the pictures that become three-dimensional.

    0
    0
  • Since last Friday's events, the anti-agreement unionists have been rubbing their hands in glee.

    0
    0
  • The purpose of his paper was to show that if the axis, by which the observer imparts motion to the slide on which the travelling web is mounted, is provided with two disks at its extremities, so that the observer can use the thumb and finger of both hands in rotating it, there is no difficulty, after a little practice, in keeping the web constantly bisecting the star in transit, and that with a little practice the mean of the absolute errors in following the star becomes nearly zero.

    0
    0
  • A commission was given him as adjutant-general in the French army, which he hoped might protect him from the penalty of treason in the event of capture by the English; though he himself claimed the authorship of a proclamation said to have been issued by the United Irishmen, enjoining that all Irishmen taken with arms in their hands in the British service should be instantly shot; and he supported a project for landing a thousand criminals in England, who were to be commissioned to burn Bristol and commit any other atrocity in their power.

    0
    0
  • The horse of Cambodia is only from 1 i to 1 2 hands in height, but is strong and capable of great endurance; the buffalo is the chief draught animal.

    0
    0
  • The little man looked at her closely and then took both the maiden's hands in his and shook them cordially.

    0
    0
  • She puts her hands in our plates and helps herself, and when the dishes are passed, she grabs them and takes out whatever she wants.

    0
    0
  • I hardly ever failed, when I rambled through the village, to see a row of such worthies, either sitting on a ladder sunning themselves, with their bodies inclined forward and their eyes glancing along the line this way and that, from time to time, with a voluptuous expression, or else leaning against a barn with their hands in their pockets, like caryatides, as if to prop it up.

    0
    0
  • In North Asia, handing out business cards with both hands in a respectful manner will also be noticed.

    0
    0
  • He slowed his pace, sauntering along with his hands in his pockets, whistling her melody.

    0
    0
  • The Pope 's link to Peter is traced back through the laying on of hands in unbroken succession for 2000 years.

    0
    0
  • Since last Friday 's events, the anti-agreement Unionists have been rubbing their hands in glee.

    0
    0
  • The image of the hand is represented as a pair of upraised hands in a gesture of holding wealth.

    0
    0
  • The boisterous woman waved her hands in large motions as she spoke.

    0
    0
  • The heat coming from the stove caused Zoe to quickly retract her hands in a natural response.

    0
    0
  • All the players hold hands in a circle around a durable object (like a box).

    0
    0
  • In his drowsiness he reached for the log and threw it off, burning both hands in the process.

    0
    0
  • Boys don't often worry about finding really dressy clothing, but their moms may throw up their hands in exasperation when searching for the perfect outfit.

    0
    0
  • Now, go get your hands in some mortar and begin your bathroom transformation!

    0
    0
  • As a rule of thumb, you should wash your hands in warm, soapy water before touching your lenses.

    0
    0
  • Hand-eye coordination is the ability of the vision system to coordinate the information received through the eyes to control, guide, and direct the hands in the accomplishment of a given task, such as handwriting or catching a ball.

    0
    0
  • During the memorial service and funeral, the family will be too distracted and overwhelmed to make arrangements for a later date, but they may realize they could use an extra set of hands in the days that follow.

    0
    0
  • And of course, walk around with your hands in front of you.

    0
    0
  • Placing your hands in your pockets or on a table in front of you are good ways to control your hands.

    0
    0
  • Once you arrive at the station, see if you can take a tour of the fire truck and let your kids pay their gratitude to the hardworking, helping hands in your city.

    0
    0
  • Instruct kids to dip their hands in paint and press their hands on their t-shirts, or allow them to paint their own designs.

    0
    0
  • If you're Catholic, you may want to include rosary beads with your hands in order to symbolize your religious beliefs more thoroughly.

    0
    0
  • Although the company changed hands in 1972, the name still represents precision construction, resplendence and haute couture.

    0
    0
  • Start in Mountain Yoga Pose, hands in Namaste.

    0
    0
  • If you've seen pictures of yoga practitioners sitting with legs crossed and their hands in different positions, then you've seen examples of mudras.

    0
    0
  • Close your eyes, keeping your hands in Gyan Mudra.

    0
    0
  • Position the legs as they will be when you are in the air and place your hands in the correct position.

    0
    0
  • As Mareya Ibrahim stated in her interview, you wouldn't come in from working in the garden to wash your hands in just water.

    0
    0
  • Kneel on the floor and place your hands in front of you on the floor, slightly wider than your shoulders.

    0
    0
  • Place your hands in fists next to your ears with your elbows pointing laterally out to the sides.

    0
    0
  • An example is a set of red flannel pajamas that consists of a high-neck, long-sleeved shirt featuring Mickey walking, hands in pockets, two stars beside him.

    0
    0
  • With online music downloads, you can hear a great song on the radio or in a movie and have it in your hands in minutes.

    0
    0
  • In this way, hip hop producers are more like a rapper's backing band than just a safe pair of hands in the studio, and as such, they often become as famous as the rappers themselves.

    0
    0
  • Their claim is that corporate advertisers and even the government have their hands in crafting reality shows that are habit forming.

    0
    0
  • Immersing your hands in water frequently will make your fingernails split.

    0
    0