How To Use Handed In A Sentence
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Her life is a constant juggling act, coping with career, family, and home life single-handed.
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Meanwhile, Mr. Christie is taking the same tact in what he described as a "passionate" relationship with Mr. Sweeney, who has the power to single-handedly block bills.
Christie, Sweeney in Standoff Over Funds
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So the girl was out of bondage, but Cadwaladr, sick with humiliation and rage, must come under guard to be handed over for a price to the brother who discarded and misprized him.
His Disposition
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Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers.
The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
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And the people who were subjected to hard yakka, slave labour if you want, or removal from islands because of drinking problems or fighting and they have complete hate and they've handed it down generationally.
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She took her time looking me over, dug into her fake Gucci handbag and handed me a ballpoint saying, ‘Give it back when you're done.’
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Thousands of free apples and oranges will be handed out each day as the government urges in-school tuck shops to serve healthier snacks.
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The hard-throwing Weaver has a knack for challenging left-handed hitters in a manner that reminds me of a young Frank Tanana.
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Examination papers will be handed back after the marks have been officially recorded.
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Instead of replying, he took out a small plastic phial from his bag and handed it to her.
GRACE
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They just can't help spending our money on receptions for anything from the synchronised swimming team to the world-acclaimed left-handed marlies champions.
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The court handed him a suspended sentence of two months in prison, with a probationary term of five years.
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Instinctively, Hunter tried to field the ball barehanded - an unfortunate decision, as it turned out - and incurred a hairline fracture to his right thumb.
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We have been pretty open-handed now in facilitating the development of Chinese technology even for military purposes.
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Power has been handed over to provincial and regional assemblies.
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Shouldn't there be some evenhandedness, with bad buildings by good architects also receiving a public airing?
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At the end of 2014 the allies formally handed over security to a new Afghan president.
Times, Sunday Times
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The heavy-handed allusiveness may just be an aesthetic mistake, a secondary flaw we have to countenance while otherwise acknowledging the narrative power of the novel as a whole.
Translated Texts
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Ramses handed the ornate gilded wine list back to the maître d '.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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Just then Edward handed Doctor Instow a goodly rasher of broiled ham, upon which was a perfectly poached egg; and directly after the man came round behind Jack, and quietly placed before him, with a whisper of warning that the plate was very hot, another rasher of ham, and at the first sight of it the lad began to shrink, but at the second glance, consequent upon a brave desire not to show his repugnance, he saw that it was a different kind of rasher to the doctor's, and that there was no egg.
Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy
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A private company has been handed the task of taking Scotland's most disruptive and disturbed state school pupils and educating them away from home.
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Corpus Christi Caller - Riggins handed me a three-weight fly rod with a green popper tied to its tippet.
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These ships were handed over to Turkey as a demonstration that Germany was Turkey's true friend at sea as well as on land.
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The management handed back his few possessions.
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Our problem is we are the most law-abiding community, the pensioners - we weren't brought up to go mob-handed anywhere.
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Politics is wily, skilled and intelligent, not clumsy and ham-handed.
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Cornelia the mother of the Gracchi, contributed much to the eloquence of her sons; and her learned stile is handed down to posterity in her letters.
Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination
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As I handed her the key she burbled, ‘Thank you so much!’
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The teacher has handed out worksheets describing the weapons and siege engines which could have been used, and she is quizzing pupils about them.
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I don’t know whether this is just a stumble, or the beginning of a real fall, for the bloody-handed, doughfaced Democratic leadership.
House of Representatives rejects war funding bill
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We have news that fuel transited through Iran is handed over to NATO forces.
Afghan protesters hurl eggs, stones at Iranian consulate over fuel blockade
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And this means that the theories of universally acting psychical repression, of the unconscious, of the endopsychic censor, of the significance of resistance and amnesia, of the employment of highly complicated and phantastic symbolism, of the manifestations of sexuality and so forth have been made use of in a high-handed, uncalled for, unnecessary and unscientific manner to prove the truth of the thesis with which the author set out upon his journey.
The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
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Hurdle course is 1m left-handed.
The Sun
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A 2-year-old Phil, a natural right-hander, insisted on swinging a golf club left-handed so that he could mirror his dad.
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Commenting on the honour, he said: ‘This has not been done single-handed.’
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It was about 11: 05 this morning, while while we were asking questions of Mr. Fleischer -- as we always do in the morning -- what we call the gaggle -- Gordon Johndroe, who is an assistant who works for Mr. Fleischer, came in and handed him a Post-it note it, and on that note it said, We must evacuate this section of the West Wing.
CNN Transcript Jul 12, 2001
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Within hours, realising that he may have gone too far, the victim handed himself in.
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She caught students red-handed with their parts entwined frequently, and the rest of the student body talked about sex as if it was just as normal as attending a baseball game or playing video games.
Daniel P. Malito: The Scarlet e-Letter
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If that sounds like a backhanded compliment, it is intended as a compliment nonetheless.
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The man who handed over the Ashes to England for the first time in a generation stood on the threshold of another ignominious defeat yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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Before she handed him the electric razor, she reached behind the bedstand and plugged the cord into the outlet, then passed the razor to him.
Western Man
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A lovely baguette with sausages and bacon in true Dublin style was handed to everyone.
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Tarsha pushed into the opening at the end of the bivvy followed by the guard who handed a bulky sack to her commander and left.
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While doing my best to be a good guest and finish the refreshing coconut milk, Alvin handed me what proved to be the tastiest guava I've ever consumed.
Joseph Satto: Slow Food, Caribbean Style
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To do pioneering work, he or resolutely abdication, preparation is barehanded make the world.
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They handed the flower round in quick order.
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I must have been around 12 years old when my liberal minded parents handed me over the fundamentalist Christians.
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Handed one of his enemy Colly Cibber's pamphlets against him, he supposedly declared, "These things are my diversion"--but those who watched as he read it saw "his features writhen with anguish".
Archive 2009-09-01
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Instead he handed me a jangling set of keys.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr Butler rowed single-handed across the Atlantic in 2001.
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He handed to the prisoner, as he spoke, the writing materials, which had been seized upon by the archers on their first entrance, and then commanded those satellites to unhand the minstrel.
Castle Dangerous
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The house was handed down to my elder brother.
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handed her his pristine white handkerchief
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The man who handed over the Ashes to England for the first time in a generation stood on the threshold of another ignominious defeat yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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As financial secretary in 2007, he handed out income tax rebates and property-rate waivers, earning him the nickname of "tong tong," a term for sweets, from the local press.
BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
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attacks from that source amounted to a backhanded compliment to his integrity
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Then he handed out our textbooks; I now had a math book and a history book, and the history book sustained the more wear and tear of the two.
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Our trusty electric breaker was called for, and ear defenders were handed out - they were absolutely vital!
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'You never know, Sol could be getting another title medal of his long career when they are handed out in May.'
Football.co.uk news feed
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On Saturday mornings throughout the month of September the ancient tradition of yawl sailing was handed down to a new generation of enthusiasts.
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They lunged at each other again, both wielding their swords two-handed.
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The pony was old, and had been Asa's own for three years, ever since Asa's older brother, Oberon, had handed him down when he had grown out of the shaggy brown pony.
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Longson walked up, took a pencil, and wrote down a name on the piece of paper, folded it, and handed it to Bradley.
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He dug into his coat and handed Miguel a thick envelope.
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At present, all tax receipts go to the UK Treasury and money is handed back to Scotland in the form of a block grant.
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Septach Melayn handed the despatch to Prestimion, who took it without looking at it and tossed it to a nearby table.
LORD PRESTIMION
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He wasn't even fazed; he just rolled his eyes and reached under the bed and unearthed a shoebox and handed it to me.
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She ogled me when handed me a glass of wine.
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He handed out a cheque for ￡500 from the drawer and gave it to me.
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Kimble memorably honored Gathers by shooting the first free throw in every game thereafter lefthanded.
Wes Leonard's Fennville High School team will play in tournament
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‘His next run will on a right-handed track, which is flat and has goodish ground’, said trainer, Jessica Harrington.
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Owing in large part to the Administration's ham-handed advance work, the strident conservative anger that erupted this summer over health-care reform has shifted from town halls to school halls.
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Because she vanquishes such devitalizing influences single-handedly, however, this heroine's
'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
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Romanov pulled out a file folder from her jacket slowly, ensuring that the bodyguards saw what she held, and handed it to Mr. Devlin.
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He handed me several sheets of paper, loosely held together by a paper clip.
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But then a bouncer single-handedly pushes them all back, tipping the crowd three steps down the steps.
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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The thing that really grates, though, is the po-faced sermonising on global warming and heavy-handed attempts to make Serious Points about Serious Issues.
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Interestingly, he swings right-handed, but putts left-handed.
Joe Peyronnin: The Golf Summit
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But the origin of why some people are left-handed is still a mystery.
The Sun
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The pope and the king of France taught Edward II to dissolve the preceptories, to the number of twenty-three, belonging to the Templars; in 1410 the Commons petitioned for the confiscation of all church property; in 1414 the alien priories in England fell under the animadversion of the government; their property was handed over to the crown and they escaped only by the payment of heavy fines, by incorporation into English orders, and by partial confiscation of their land.
The Age of the Reformation
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On another a man in airmans costume is fighting barehanded against a rat somewhat larger than a donkey.
Boys' Weeklies
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German-French for “Madame la Vicomtesse,” and after many ceremonious bows, he drew from his pocket a dilapidated pocketbook, saying: “Che un betit bapier bour fous,” and unfolding as he handed it to her a piece of greasy paper.
Une Vie
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The irony gets a little heavy-handed - one of the baldies discovers love while picking up an anorexic chick in the hospital cafeteria - but the sentiment is genuine.
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A ‘no bid’ handed to you on a plate contract is a pretty attractive proposition.
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For most right-handed people, the speech center is located in the left half of the brain.
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It is a left-handed track with sturdy fences, making it a suitable preparation venue for Grand National hopefuls.
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Mr. Klein plays Fender Rhodes, but it's hardly what you'd expect on your usual four-handed keyboard duo, even on the two duets, "Airport Fugue" and "Implacable.
Friends, Sisters, Countrymen
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The son of a Sydney grocer, Rosewall was a natural left-hander but was taught to play right-handed by his father and developed a peerless backhand.
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Short of being caught red-handed stealing clients' money, accountants were rarely disciplined.
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Valid tickets must be attached to the vehicle or handed to the driver.
The Sun
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a judge who is broad-minded but even-handed
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The men electioneered and handed cards to thought my name was Jazz.
The Iron Puddler
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He had been imprisoned after being reprieved from a death sentence handed down by General Victoriano Huerta, the usurper who would overthrow Francisco Madero in February 1913.
Pancho Villa as a German Agent...
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Then, with a flourish, he thwacked my paying-in book twice with his stamp, initialled the counterfoil and handed it back to me with a relieved smile.
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This day is one that typically Americans pay sort of attention to cursorily in the most off-handed ways.
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Beowulf meets Grendel, and a battle ensues - Beowulf uses no weapon against Grendel, and fighting barehanded, rips off his arm.
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These high-handed tactics were obviously risky, but they were a calculated risk.
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This week's pompous, poncey, high-handed antics could pique the infamous Tauran temper, impelling you to channel that feisty, fiery Hawaiian volcano deity Pele, who loves to erupt in Vesuvian pyrotechnics.
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Statistics from the afternoon game are just a snapshot of the Mets' 1991 season, when both the left-handed hurler and his team, the one he had cheered for as a boy, collapsed.
Clout for the Cyclones
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Although the Nazis initially used the right-handed one, later they started using the left-handed version.
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And maybe, just maybe, that awareness could coalesce into a market force that rewards openness and accountability, and punishes arbitrary, high-handed behaviour.
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The government has handed the responsibility of lawmaking to unelected judges.
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Secondly, single-handed practices were capable of sophisticated asthma care, provided they were adequately resourced.
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Without missing a beat, the taller man handed Dickie a beer (apparently it was not too early to drink), and began challenging his opponent to distinguish between the genuine ascetic and what he termed the conspicuously nonconsuming -poverty snob.
Villa Incognito
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Preparatory to anything else Mr Bloom brushed off the greater bulk of the shavings and handed Stephen the hat and ashplant and bucked him up generally in orthodox Samaritan fashion which he very badly needed.
Ulysses
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Lyon's portrayal of Bertozzo's madness is somewhat heavyhanded, but he brings a feisty edge to the play's dynamics.
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He said: ‘I think it is underhanded and duplicitous and it is double standards.’
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They were caught red-handed mucking up the "proof.
Harlan Ellison on God
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Love spells are on the whole rather unsubtle, heavy handed pieces of work and they're usually born out of desperation.
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Today, in the absence of a real fans' favourite, Reyna may find himself handed an important role.
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I handed the boots, my letter and the reply to a pleasant, submissive sales assistant who went to fetch a manager.
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All the while, however, they take the high-handed attitude that they know better than the average citizen and that, if there are bugs in Scottish water, then it is up to them to decide when the public will learn of the risks.
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Instead he handed me a jangling set of keys.
Times, Sunday Times
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She handed in her resignation following the dispute over company policy.
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So instead I ask the straight girls amongst you to help out the naïve and cack-handed man in your life.
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A male colleague got 585 for toppling backwards on a faulty chair while another was handed 14,000 after hurting his back lifting boxes.
The Sun
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Harris first pitched right-handed, getting Reggie Sanders to ground out.
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Like Seward, Carey handed out a lot of clemencies for people in prison.
Randy Credico: Congratulations Chuck! You've Knocked Me Off the Democratic Primary Ballot
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A serial offender who stole to feed a drug habit and then handed himself in has been sentenced to four months in prison.
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After the exam I was handed off to the saleslady; we found frames identical to my present set.
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They handed the flower around in quick order.
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The propman picked them up and handed them back, saying, “Here, kid.
The Making of "The Graduate"
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A clerk booked down details of every article handed in.
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We have to adapt to their right-handed implements and look silly trying to use them.
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He twisted and groped one-handed behind the cantle of his saddle for his hunting-bow and quiver, found them and fumbled them loose.
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I shall count my country _lost_, in the loss of the primitive _principles_, and the primitive _practices_, upon which it was at first established: but certainly one good way to save that _loss_, would be to do something, that the memory of _the great things done for us by our God_, may not be _lost_, and that the story of the circumstances attending the _foundation_ and _formation_ of this country, and of its _preservation_ hitherto, may be impartially handed unto posterity.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
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Always wanted to learn to play the piano, maybe get a synthesizer, program in the chords, do it one-handed.
CORMORANT
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The result may be more even-handed and in-depth treatment of controversies such as elections.
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Having adopted the drape-against-wall style for my bumf-hanging activities, I find that it allows one to tear the paper off one-handedly and very neatly.
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They engaged in some playful four-handed piano playing as the audience sang and clapped along with the musicians.
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With dizzying speed, the tiny label almost single-handedly ignited the hip-hop revolution that made rap a household word.
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Fifteen minutes after reading that crumpled note, I handed my letter of resignation to the senior pastor.
Christianity Today
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Though he prayed for a moose, just one moose, all game seemed to have deserted the land, and nightfall found the exhausted man crawling into camp, light-handed, heavy-hearted.
The White Silence
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Success is not guaranteed. It is not handed to you. Success is earned.
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'Here you go.' Callum handed her a glass of orange juice.
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Because the Scottish parliament has no second chamber, the committees must act as an even-handed forum to ensure that legislation is fair and foolproof.
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As they rode, Tom pulled a bottle of cadaverine from his pocket, dabbed some onto his clothes, and then handed the bottle to Benny.
Rot & Ruin
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I handed the guys some lemonade as they wiped their foreheads with the towels I'd given them.
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As they get close and learn about each other intergang attempts to capture the girl when they prove unsuccessful the being known as Kalibak arrives on earth to claim her who also gets his ass handed to him.
Tuesday Discussion: Where Do You Want to See Superman Go? « FirstShowing.net
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These rich kids expect to have it all handed to them on a silver platter.
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They handed icy bottled water to the men to quench their thirst and soothe their hoarse throats.
Times, Sunday Times
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a backhanded and dishonest way of reaching his goal
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Both gifted swordsmen, and both left-handed, uncle and nephew were putting on a skilled display-a show made more impressive by the fact that they were fighting in accordance with the most exacting rules of French dueling, but using neither the rapier-like smallsword that formed part of a gentleman's costume, nor the saber of a soldier.
Dragonfly in Amber
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Why is it, in the 21st century,when we should be making progress, that so many people seem to have handed over their life destiny to either the government (and thus effectively other taxpayers who are providing the benefits and the credits) or some sort of unpindownable other party?
The Guardian World News
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Most people are right-handed so they will opt for queues on the right-hand side.
Times, Sunday Times
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Burglars were caught red-handed surrounded by computers that they were intending to steal from a business.
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The future foreign secretary had not met him before, was not sure what he looked like and almost handed him his hat.
Times, Sunday Times
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It may already be too late to take the more open-handed British approach, and for reasons of self-preservation they may need to adopt an uncharacteristically guarded stance.
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Instead he handed me a jangling set of keys.
Times, Sunday Times
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After the candles burned for several minutes, I handed Xun an incensor (incense burner), filled with smoldering charcoal, which he placed on the floor in front of the candles.
Temezcal y Xun - the sweatlodge
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In fact, a wide range of structural proteins have coils in which two or three helices are wound around each other to form a left-handed superhelix conformation.
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Peter says his right-handed writing is purely for on-paper work.
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Lugo projects to have good at-bats against left-handed pitcher Franklin Morales because Lugo is a good high ball hitter and Morales tends to make most of his mistakes up in the strike zone.
Scout's take: Boston Red Sox lineup analysis
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The man hit him, left hand, backhanded; he was wearing a weighted glove.
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A useful and more pertinent account of the pictures themselves is handed out on admission to the exhibition.
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Of course, the police caught the burglars red-handed.
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This album is a bit different in its strong focus on the four-handed piano works.
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The power soft top goes down easily with a one-handed release and the press of a button.
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They had been waiting for thousands of years, waiting as their land and kingdom had been handed off from one conquering empire to another.
Christianity Today
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Has the world's most pugnacious advocate for the world's poor, a man who almost single-handedly brought the appalling images of famine-struck Africa into the front rooms of millions of Britons, finally gone too far?
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Doug and I came up with a sneaky, underhanded and brilliant plan which kept us strong and under little pressure for the first three years.
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They nodded to each other by way of breaking the ice of unacquaintance, and the first stranger handed his neighbour the family mug — a huge vessel of brown ware, having its upper edge worn away like a threshold by the rub of whole generations of thirsty lips that had gone the way of all flesh, and bearing the following inscription burnt upon its rotund side in yellow letters there is no fun
Wessex Tales
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The new and improved line of attack is to dichotomize war opponents by, first, issuing the most back-handed of compliments to those who were anti-war all along – the unthreatening, marginalized “Michael Moore crowd.”
Archive 2005-11-01
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She handed me a skipping rope and off we went.
The Sun
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The priest was just behind her, and I swung the broken billhook haft and landed a two-handed wallop on one of his shins.
Wildfire
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The members were unanimous in their praise of council officials for the manner in which they handed the crisis.
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I'm blessed if I'm going to do cook an 'stooard's work single-handed, an' you lazy rascallion a caulkin 'all over the ship!
The Island Treasure
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One thing I can't do is forge his signature, largely because he's left-handed and I'm not.
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Forty minutes later he was still empty-handed and beginning to panic.
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Well, not all of them… the majority handed over a selection of bijou Edwardian residences which I shall have to go and look at, at some point.
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Call saddled the horse and handed the reins to Matilda, along with his pistol.
Dead Man’s Walk
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And this open-handed warmth equally encompasses the friendly, obliging ship's crew.
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There is a place in London that supplies practically everything for left-handed people.
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Now as wheat is no longer king and the fruit business is, our forehanded people show the same disposition.
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A left-handed batsman and wicketkeeper, Tindill's international cricket career spanned nearly a decade, either side of World War Two in which he served as a member of the NZEF.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
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He looked down at it, more puzzled than pained, then struck her a backhanded swipe that had her stumbling back towards the door.
EVERVILLE
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The directors came in about five minutes before the callbacks were supposed to start, and then handed out a bunch of informational packets and stuff.
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Late next year, 870 No. 10 million will roll off the line in Ilion, N.Y. In anticipation of that milestone, I traveled to the factory in April to assist with the birth of an 870, specifically, serial No. AB457021M, a left-handed 12-gauge Express, the 9,524,500th 870 ever built.
It Always Goes Bang
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He will adopt a more even-handed and less pro - Israel stance when tackling the Middle east conflict.
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Merlin almost effortlessly blocked her bolt barehanded, but stopping her second one took considerable effort.
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She faces the herculean task of bringing up four children single-handedly.
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This was his first big quest after being appointed and he came away empty handed.
Times, Sunday Times
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His short-handed goal has the potential to end up the biggest goal of this Stanley Cup Finals.
Penguins beat Red Wings 4-2 in Game 4 to even series
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Hard-throwing righthanded relief prospect Lorenzo Barcelo, who was projected to be a main cog in the Chicago bullpen, battled arm problems and was limited to just 26 innings.
USATODAY.com - White Sox 2002 prospect report
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A couple divers went in after them, but came up empty-handed.
The Diving Horses of Atlantic City » E-Mail
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We may, I believe, safely compare the history of The Nights with the so-called Homeric poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, a collection of immortal ballads and old Epic formulæ and verses traditionally handed down from rhapsode to rhapsode, incorporated in a slowly-increasing body of poetry and finally welded together about the age of Pericles.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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A peace offering," Roberts said as he handed the box of cigars to Cohen.
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And his philosophical musings influenced a much later, left-handed thinker: German philosopher Frederick Nietzsche.
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A lewd audacious action cntcrpriz'di Into the fair, with women mixM, li Arm'd with a huge two-handed milium.
The Works of the English Poets
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He groped in his back pocket and handed me his schedule.
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But several hunts organized by the city government over the past months turned up empty-handed, apparently since cold-blooded reptiles are not very active during the chillier months.
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A one-handed lift can be used for picking up all objects except the heaviest or most unwieldy items.
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It's an open-handed slap, but powered clear from the hips, and he absolutely staggers.
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It's usually a backhanded compliment to say that the lighting is great, but in this case, it's the simple truth.
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A smorgasbord subcommittee of pastors designed the evangelistic tract that would be handed out door to door.
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A hairdresser is madly in love with her, but the open-handed British soldiers in the city also tempt her.
Naguib Mahfouz – The Son of Two Civilizations
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These were good examples of him being handed the gift of an easy win.
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I think we all have come across religious tracts in our lives - little pamphlets that are often handed out by evangelists on street corners, that we in turn throw away.
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She had barely arrived at the international exhibition centre when she was handed a stark Brexit warning.
Times, Sunday Times
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While the fundamental risk remained Global Thermonuclear War prosecuted by one or both of the only nation-states capable of accomplishing such a civilization-threatening feat single-handedly or 'cooperatively', the contributing risks represented by escalation and alliances opened a larger number of paths from the status quo to the unthinkable outcome and some of those paths had distinctly lower thresholds standing between origin and outcome.
The Speculist: Doomsday Clock Speculist Challenge
