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UK
/hˈændz/
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[ US /ˈhændz, ˈhænz/ ]
[ US /ˈhændz, ˈhænz/ ]
NOUN
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(with `in') guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child
my fate is in your hands
the mother was awarded custody of the children
your guests are now in my custody
too much power in the president's hands - the force of workers available
How To Use hands In A Sentence
- My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
- The final section of the traverse was a bit of a challenge: delicate, balancey moves with next to nothing for hands or feet.
- There is probably room for a touch more earthiness, a little more hardness in her approach to a Don José who is always going to be putty in her hands.
- They missed it because they are too busy bootlicking ObamaCare, on their hands and knees. Political Instability and the Coming Defeat of ObamaCare | RedState
- Frankly I don't understand why most companies don't follow the same policy as franked income in the hands of shareholders is worth a lot more to them than huge piles of franking credits mouldering away in the company's balance sheet.
- I looked up to see Brody onstage, his dishevelled dark brown hair flopping across his forehead and both hands hanging onto the microphone.
- If the adventurers try to reach location 14 they will have to pass scores of biting faces and clutching hands.
- Indeed, so many of us now possess a handset that mobile phone sales have collapsed.
- The best way to describe the pain in my hands and feet is during the morning, it is like a bad toothache.
- His greasy ingratiation irked the Watchkeeper and he clenched his hands to hide the claws that slipped from his fingertips.
