How To Use Left-handed In A Sentence

The hard-throwing Weaver has a knack for challenging left-handed hitters in a manner that reminds me of a young Frank Tanana.
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.
Hurdle course is 1m left-handed. The Sun
A 2-year-old Phil, a natural right-hander, insisted on swinging a golf club left-handed so that he could mirror his dad.
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
It is a left-handed track with sturdy fences, making it a suitable preparation venue for Grand National hopefuls.
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
Although the Nazis initially used the right-handed one, later they started using the left-handed version.
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
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.
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
One thing I can't do is forge his signature, largely because he's left-handed and I'm not.
There is a place in London that supplies practically everything for left-handed people.
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
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
And his philosophical musings influenced a much later, left-handed thinker: German philosopher Frederick Nietzsche.
Right-handed people went to the left so they could use their right hand; left-handed people went to the right. Times, Sunday Times
Michael twisted painfully out of the way and swung his sword left-handed in an awkward but powerful arc.
Scarpa is almost certainly unique in the way that he plays right - handed but then switches to play left-handed any shots from around 60 yards or under.
Of course Johnny is naturally left-handed, so his left arm is strong.
It is thought that the right-handed molecule produced the therapeutic effect but the left-handed molecule produced the birth defects.
A tip for left-handed batters: Your first pitch is going to be a high fastball running away.
I suppose in the end, Pattaya did get a left-handed compliment.
Mickelson, whose nickname "Lefty" refers to his left-handed golf swing, was voted into the World Golf Hall of Fame last fall. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
A left-handed track, it is situated on the Welsh side of the border with England.
It should not be much of a wonder that I was left-handed.
At The Oval, Butt needs a performance from himself as well as his team, for he is not really proven as a Test player, for all the wristy style of his left-handed batting. Salman Butt: 'In these dark days for Pakistan, cricket can lift spirits'
The only prob is I'm left-handed, so finding a left-handed guitar is tricky. New Header Thingamajig
Left-handed, and was the daughter of his loyal adherent, the alcayde of Malaga, who sheltered him in his city when driven from the throne. The Alhambra
Who was the best left-handed batsman you saw? Times, Sunday Times
DeGale is left-handed so right-handed boxers need to use the opposite leg and arm for the instructions below. Times, Sunday Times
He - despite being left-handed in all other facets of life - was going to shoot basketballs right handed and spurn potential ambidextrousness. Daily News-Record
He throws and bats left-handed, but he's ambidextrous.
The main spiral staircase turns the ‘wrong ‘way because one of the original lairds, John Graham of Duchray, was left-handed.’
As a left-handed shooter, I have often encouraged several arms manufacturers to produce small-bore, left-hand bolt actions, not surprisingly, with little success.
It may seem a left-handed compliment to say The Industry Standard was by far the best and most professional of this lot, but I mean it sincerely.
left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs
Twenty years after being saved from unemployment by his reputation as a solid left-handed pitcher, David N. Mullany was once again out of work. Making a Wiffle Ball
I'm fine with left-handed flam paradiddle-diddles because I'm right-handed, but Mrs. Karash expects me to alternate left and right, and to accelerando, until I'm playing flam paradiddle-diddles fast like syncopated rolls. Moe Tucker
I daresay a quarter of an hour's practice two or three times a day for a week or so will deliver me from the absurd necessity of having to call in the assistance of the neighbourhood to communicate my bits of news to you; not to say that dictation is only a degree less awkward than left-handed penmanship, having never tried it before in my life. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
A left-handed opening batsman who likes to play off the back foot. Times, Sunday Times
Thus I eat, write, golf, and play tennis right-handed, but throw, bowl, shoot pool, and play basketball left-handed.
Left-handed with him (one who ever was contradictious of Ciaran) they saw a ship foundering in their sight. The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints
But the origin of why some people are left-handed is still a mystery. The Sun
a left-handed compliment
The two types of quartz are distinguished by minor crystal faces, the hemihedral facets, which form a left-handed screw pattern in one set and a right-handed pattern in the other.
Switching to a left-handed track should help. The Sun
At the time of writing, there are very few left-handed instruments being stocked in York.
It can be converted from a right-handed weapon to a left-handed one by simply changing the bolt and casing ejector aperture.
Try reaching across to use your computer mouse left-handed.
In fact, I got into trouble recently because of "dexterous"--or rather, because I told someone that a left-handed person can't technically be dexterous. Ferule & Fescue
Who was the best left-handed batsman you saw? Times, Sunday Times
The West Indies team in the fifth Test against England at The Oval in 2000 included eight left-handed batsmen.
Except for the last three tools that have right- and left-handed wooden threads in combination, all the other tools have right-handed threads.
This was a much more economical solution than buying a thread cutting lathe, and simpler than making a left-handed screw box and tap to match a right-handed box and tap.
A left-handed hitter pulls a single to right field, scoring the runner from second and sending the other to third.
He bowled the following season left-handed and even bowled three regionals as a lefty, but had no luck.
He plays for the House of Commons, and for those who have played or are interested in that marvellous game, he is a left-handed bowler, and he is an opening batsman, which is a very important place to be. Europe, NATO and North America and their Future Relationships
She uses a style learned from a picture knitting guide she was given as a child, which is neither the right-handed American style or the left-handed Continental technique some say is more efficient.
Schenke is an opening left-handed bat and right arm medium pace bowler from Sydney's Balmain Club.
It has a staggered 15 round magazine with a reversible magazine release button that can be positioned for either right- or left-handed shooters.
The crystal structure reveals a novel supercoil structure in which four parallel WAT chains form a left-handed superhelix around an antiparallel left-handed proline rich attachment domain helix resembling polyproline II.
Three of the left-handed coiled collagen molecules form a right-handed coiled triple helix called tropocollagen.
Several studies have noted a higher rate of left-handedness in schizophrenic people although some scientists think this is due to ambidextrousness rather than genuine left-handedness.
And as for the bout of recent left-handed presidents, some think it's because teachers only recently stopped working to convert lefties to righties at an early age.
The left-handed side of the figure refers to the derivation of scientific laws and theories from observation that we have already discussed.
Guiel, a left-handed batter, has a compact, efficient swing and can drive the ball with power.
Nature produces many chemicals in two forms that are mirror images of each other - so-called left-handed and right-handed molecules.
Schaffer had Murray hit left-handed every other day before home games for about three weeks.
Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.
Transmembrane helices in membrane coils predominantly cross at left-handed angles, those in membrane gates predominantly at right-handed angles.
The International Monetary Fund's leader, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, may come out of a socialist party background, but the IMF's underlying trend became apparent at a morning reception where right-leaning coffee cups made it near impossible for the left-handed to drink without making a mess. IMF tilts right in coffee-cup conspiracy?
For left-handed operation, I could only get the left side of the mouse "unblocked" by lifting my hand completely off the mouse. MacOSXHints.com
It is a galloping left-handed track, 1m3f round, suitable for stayers.
Today, most companies build good left-handed sets, which makes it easier for lefthanders to get started in the game properly.
It customarily refers to the number of monomers in one turn of actin's left-handed helix.
South Africa are playing with a new-look side led by Smith, which includes three debutants - left-handed batsman Rudolph and pacemen Dawson and Charl Willoughby.
My left-handed colleague Steve Carroll gave me a list of things to do using objects that are allegedly designed for right-handers.
The team plans to fill its other main need, a left-handed reliever, by giving non-roster invitations to a few lefties.
He bowled the following season left-handed and even bowled three regionals as a lefty, but had no luck.
As an example, a left-handed shooter carrying a Browning Hi-Power will need an ambidextrous safety.
If Morgan falters, the Nationals could move to a platoon, perhaps with Werth taking center and Michael Morse taking right field against left-handed pitchers. A welcome to Viera, and five things to watch for there
Danny's right-handed and I'm left-handed, but that doesn't matter.
The Yankees now have followed up with a call of "check" by gaining the rights to negotiate with a young left-handed pitcher from Japan, Kei Igawa.
I had to start over and learn to do techniques left-handed.
Batting left-handed against Ray Herbert of the White Sox, he crushed a 502-foot moonshot into the center field bleachers.
Drawing his cimeter, and pressing forward, he was about to deal a left-handed blow that might have been fatal to, at least, one of the gazers, when the princesses crowded round him, and implored mercy for the prisoners; even the timid Zorahayda forgot her shyness, and became eloquent in their behalf. The Alhambra
Over two-thirds of the parents indicated that at least one, if not both, parents are left-handed or ambidextrous.
Left-handed materials - such as this "metamaterial" for microwaves - are reported to bend light in the opposite direction from normal materials, a property that might lead to a "perfect" lens.
Ronnie O'Sullivan still looks good playing left-handed.
It is also a plus that he is left-handed because we have lacked that variety at the top of the order.
Switching to a left-handed track should help. The Sun
There must, therefore, be some hidden advantage to being left-handed that counteracts the risks, but the problem for biologists was trying to work out what this advantage was.
When he did play - usually against left-handed starter - he often batted cleanup.
[K] Instances are frequent where Southern gentlemen form these left-handed connections, and rear two sets of differently colored children; but it is not often that the two families occupy the same domicil. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862
Fender left-handed Jazz guitar with case, ￡275.
We can see from all this that left-handed people are different to you and me. Times, Sunday Times
He offered the young left-handed pitcher a job playing baseball for six months.
A masterful left-handed opening batsman and brilliant slip fielder. Times, Sunday Times
He also would bowl the first ball right-handed and challenge himself to pick up the spare left-handed, then starting lefty and finishing righty.
Some people say that it's worse because I'm left-handed.
Do you swing a golf club left-handed or right-handed?
Right-handed people went to the left so they could use their right hand; left-handed people went to the right. Times, Sunday Times
Recent structural experiments have suggested that the domain may also contain left-handed polyproline helices.
As observed in all consequent experiments, both left-handed (L) and right-handed (D) optical isomers were created in a racemic mixture Ambiguity Tolerance
I'm fine with left-handed flam paradiddle-diddles because I'm right-handed, but Mrs. Karash expects me to alternate left and right, and to accelerando, until I'm playing flam paradiddle-diddles fast like syncopated rolls. Moe Tucker
A masterful left-handed opening batsman and brilliant slip fielder. Times, Sunday Times
He wasn't at all strong at left-handed techniques, whereas Keziah had been told from a very early age that there were no lefts and rights in fighting.
Now the interesting bit is that the left-handed ones have hooks, and the right-handed ones have ridges.
Similarly, if one focuses on k crossings in a diagram there is a corresponding sum of 2 k terms, where the signs are determined by the parity of the number of left-handed crossings in each of the individual summands.
What Pasteur correctly made of this is that the molecules of tartaric acid could exist in either a “right-handed” or “left-handed” form, rather like left- and right-handed gloves. First Contact
In the meantime left-handed Trevor is nursing the wounds he claims the nurse didn't detect.
Further evidence that species-level sinistrality originated in environments where predator-induced selection is weak comes from the biology of living left-handed species.
When in Dubai the Godolphin team work at Al Quoz, a left-handed dirt track.
He was left-handed and was therefore unable to take notes, and he had managed to escape homework from two classes on account of his injury.
There is a place in London that supplies practically everything for left-handed people.
I had hoped that being left-handed would give him a career as a tennis player or spin bowler. Times, Sunday Times
There is no doubt that such children suffered greatly from being forced against their will to change from left-handed to right-handed writing.
On the reverse in the artist's left-handed script is a three-word inscription from the Roman poet Pliny.
A superb, dangerously over-worked, standing self-portrait, Painter Working, Reflection 1993 portrays the ageing artist wearing only unlaced boots, holding a palette and knife he was left-handed, addressing the viewer like a silent actor; invariably paint applied imaginatively to the planes of walls and floor reads as though a leitmotif for the prevailing mood. Lucian Freud obituary
He would throw batting practice right-handed and then left-handed.
If your customer is left-handed, then an ambidextrous safety add-on is in order - installed by someone competent.
“Why the hell does he have her batting left-handed?” questioned Euan. Parents Behaving Badly
Today is International Left-Handed Day, which I shall celebrate by being left-handed all day (something that comes naturally to me).
Hmm..the mild ambidexterity I referred to doesn't measure up: I throw left-handed, draw right handed. Abe in Two
Upon finding the ball up against the boundary fence, he was heard to comment: ‘I couldn't hit this thing left-handed!’
Almost all amino acids that make up biological proteins, for instance, are left-handed, so a self-replicating biological molecule of right-handed chirality could be suggestive of an alien organism.
Hurdle course is 1m left-handed. The Sun
The Yankees turned to Braves discard C.J. Nitkowski in their latest attempt to find left-handed help for the bullpen.
LEFT-HANDED Chapman Stick, including case lead and instruction book, ￡500.
We can see from all this that left-handed people are different to you and me. Times, Sunday Times
The chance element may also explain why some people are ambidextrous rather than clearly right or left-handed.
Having said that, I do have a Strat that I made from parts, but I put a left-handed Explorer style neck on it, so it looks really funky with this weird upside-down hockey-stick headstock.
His regular work was heavy enough, splitting all the wood for the camp, carrying water and packing lunch to the men, but his hazers sent him on all kinds of wild goose errands to all parts of the works, looking for a "left-handed peavy" or a "bundle of cross-hauls. The Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan
Sinistral individuals in normally dextral populations often deviate slightly in shell form from wild-type dextrals, perhaps implying that the left-handed condition has small deleterious side effects.
Some have been so bad that one imagines the umpires must have taken him to be left-handed.
As these bows more closely resemble a longbow, they can be shot either right-handed or left-handed, due to the ‘wrap-around’ type grip.
Similarly, by analogy and by convention, helices are also described as right or left-handed.
It is currently the world's only online guitar shop catering exclusively for left-handed people.
There are dozens of websites offering everything from left-handed bread-knives to scissors and writing pads.
The game values left-handers overall and left-handed pitchers in particular.
What I just said could be considered a left-handed compliment.
This year, Rusch sports a tighter, bigger-breaking curve, and he has been using a sidearm delivery occasionally on breaking pitches to left-handed batters.
There is nothing Mosley takes for granted about Wright, giving what might be a left-handed compliment in saying Winky sometimes fights to the level of his competition.
But her desire to create was rekindled after receiving her first left-handed guitar for a birthday gift.
A left-handed batsman, Raina has averaged over 43 runs in 15 first-class matches so far.
Mickey Mantle hit 373 home runs left-handed and 163 right-handed.
‘But you can teach naturally left-handed children to use their right hand,’ she pointed out.
There is no such thing as a tappet, a left-handed monkey wrench or a sky hook. Ask Mr. Fix-It!
The association aims to sensitize employers to the problems faced by left-handed people in the workplace.
And since the Empee is a caseless weapon there is no hot flying brass in the face for left-handed shooters. This Entry is All About Me (As if All the Others Aren’t) « Whatever
As its name implies and the above picture shows, B. sinistrum is a left-handed or sinistral species. Archive 2009-03-01
When general manager Ken Williams watched the tape, he liked what he saw - sinking and moving pitches, a sidearm delivery and an ability as a right-hander to get out left-handed hitters.
I was 13 years old when Head pitched his no-hitter, and I recall reading that he was born left-handed, hurt his arm, and had to learn to pitch right-handed.
I'm fine with left-handed flam paradiddle-diddles because I'm right-handed, but Mrs. Karash expects me to alternate left and right, and to accelerando, until I'm playing flam paradiddle-diddles fast like syncopated rolls. Moe Tucker
Crystallography volunteers enantiomorphic space groups P3 (1) 21 and P3 (2) 21 with respective all right-handed and all left-handed 3-fold screw axies, no racemic screw axes, no conflicting screw axes. Assignment Desk: You Ask, We Answer
It can be converted from a right-handed weapon to a left-handed one by simply changing the bolt and casing ejector aperture.
However, it is symmetric, so left-handed folks will still be able to use it without getting muscle cramps.
A left-handed opening batsman who likes to play off the back foot. Times, Sunday Times
He has tended to jump left when racing at right-handed tracks so should be better suited by racing left-handed. The Sun
We are hoping that he will be happier at Cheltenham with its left-handed track and a bigger hill.
He didn't understand why everyone was so interested to see him write, and the judge pointed out that he was left-handed.
I'm afraid if you're left-handed, you're out of luck.
I have always maintained that Mickey Mantle was a more devastating hitter right-handed than left-handed, but have never had the statistics to support my argument.
I never could understand why some men who can break a mustang before breakfast and shave in the dark, get all left-handed and full of perspiration and excuses when they see Heart of the West [Annotated]
I also like the this seems to be a recipe I can make one-handed -- except for stirring the bechamel -- maybe I can do that left-handed too (I am a bit disabled for the moment, but keeping a positive attitude, and pasta helps!). Recipe for Artichoke Pastitsio with Basil Béchamel (Παστίτσιο με Αγκινάρες και Κρέμα Βασιλικό)
Since the weights are internal and are able to shift (by simply tipping the thing up) it can be used as either a left-handed or a right-handed planer.
Every month they would test my grip, and for a long time my left grip was weaker than the right, even though I'm left-handed.
They had a female singer who also played the occasional keyboard line on a synth, a very foxy left-handed bass player (she was lovely!) and the guitarist chappy who I'd previously seen playing with another band.
The filament is able to adopt many polymorphic conformations, including left-handed and right-handed supercoils, depending on various environmental conditions.
She threw out a hard left-handed punch, striking nothing but air.
The crystal structure of the Max homodimer shows it to be a parallel, left-handed, four-helix bundle with a hydrophobic core.
Middlesex kept themselves in it after a poor foray with the new ball, first through the brisk outswing of Steven Crook who took three of the first four wickets to fall and late in the day a stunning left-handed, diving catch at backward point. Middlesex v Gloucestershire | County Championship match report
If you've ever wanted to know where to buy left-handed products or how to contact the Walker-Warburg syndrome support group or wish to start a group for sufferers of congenital aglossia, look no further!
He seems adaptable to extremes of going and is equally effective racing right-handed or left-handed. Times, Sunday Times
John was a leftist in politics and a left-handed pitcher in the diamond.
Mitchell was a left-handed spitball pitcher who played for six teams - in 1911 and from 1916 to 1932.
It's like watching someone who is right-handed throw left-handed for a change.
Based on rate stats, Wagner is unquestionably one of the best active pitchers, left-handed relievers, and southpaws in the history of the game.
It is now thought by many experts that people experience the world differently according to whether they are right-handed or left-handed.
Fighting from the left-handed southpaw stance, Magee's slashing left hands and jabs kept Hatton off balance for the majority of the opening stages.
Similarly, by analogy and by convention, helices are also described as right or left-handed.
I was left-handed but I always trained from the right side.
A masterful left-handed opening batsman and brilliant slip fielder. Times, Sunday Times
Shouse, 33, is a longtime minor leaguer who developed a sidearm delivery to use against left-handed hitters last year.
The left-handed cheekpiece did me one bit of good.
It's likely that mixing interfertile, but genetically differing, populations results in a left-handed kind of impairment in offspring. What a Bunch of Apes! « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
The warp and woof fibers of the organza, which were of the same diameter, thus formed right- and left-handed helices around the tube.
That is also the most wins ever by a left-handed hurler.
The ratio of right-turning kissers to left-turners is about the same as that between right-handedness and left-handedness.
This particular model has a useful feature in that, since the weights are internal and are able to shift (by simply tipping the thing up) it can be used as either a left-handed or a right-handed planer.
I'm slightly ambidextrous (mostly right-handed including writing but I throw/bowl/chuck left-handed).
While they believe he is and will be fine, the Nationals are keeping an eye on the spring training progression of newly acquired left-handed starter Tom Gorzelanny, who suffered from a sinus infection and walking pneumonia for the two weeks immediately preceding spring training - "seriously bad timing," Gorzelanny said. Illness before spring a slight complication for Tom Gorzelanny
The doctor developed tendonitis in his right elbow and had to dribble the last three hours of the 108-mile run left-handed.
Next up was Benji, the left-handed batter who was grinning ear to ear.
Also, left-handed men and women are likely to have less well developed spacial awareness, suggesting that they may be more prone to accidents such as car crashes.
Only one of those letters was signed (with his right hand) by a young Canadian teenager in Sarnia, Ontario, asking whether he should change from playing golf left-handed to right-handed.
The left-handed Wong took the first game quickly at 7-1 with his accurate shots as Marlev made too many unforced errors, sending the shuttlecock to the net or behind Wong's line.
If you're left-handed, switch the hand positions.

How To Use Left-handed In A Sentence

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