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a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right
their pitcher was a southpaw - a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand
How To Use left-hander In A Sentence
- Lilly set a club record for strikeouts by a left-hander - the previous mark of 11 was accomplished twice by David Wells and once by Al Leiter.
- She eventually lost her cool when the Chinese left-hander wanted to change the shuttle after messing up a return.
- Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and the world's richest man, is also a left-hander, as are the actresses Nicole Kidman and Lisa Kudrow, who played dippy Phoebe in Friends.
- Sorry left-handers, report of iPhone 4 recall debunked Canada.com Top Stories
- Who foresaw in 2011 that Novak Djokovic was going to become a Grand Slam title hoarder with the endurance and big-match confidence of a certain Spanish left-hander from Majorca? NYT > Global Home
- Left-handers have trouble using can-openers, scissors, and potato peelers.
- The game values left-handers overall and left-handed pitchers in particular.
- In a world where disadvantages are usually weeded out by natural selection, how have left-handers survived?
- It's easy to think of reasons of why there might be negative effects on left-handers because they are living in a right-handed world.
- We poor benighted left-handers, however, require tender, therapeutic care to deal with our differentness.