hand down

VERB
  1. passed on, as by inheritance
    This ring was handed down through many generations
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How To Use hand down In A Sentence

  • Rick got up first, reaching his hand down to help Tristyn up as well.
  • She gently pushed his hand down on the knife, guiding it through the motions.
  • The home favourite served for the match and closed it out on a second match point with a backhand down the line.
  • She giggled some more as she reached her hand down to help him up.
  • He slid his hand down her back, sending shivers through her body.
  • Every body of men invested with office are tenacious of power; they feel interested, and hence it has become a kind of maxim, to hand down their offices, with all its rights and privileges, unimpaired to their successors.
  • At take off be sure to pop off the lip evenly. Begin to tuck up both legs . And your right hand down to meet you ski.
  • He ran a hand down the smooth and finely sculptured chest, the muscles twitching upon the caress of the long, tapered fingers.
  • None of which saved me from a hand down my trousers after I was hauled aside for a random check on the gangway leading to the aircraft.
  • We approach power as supplicants; we have no redress or comeback, indeed no knowledge of how it works; we accept what our politicians hand down in the name of a hereditary leader.
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