How do you use the word "hand" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "hand": If you are free, give me a hand. You have a light hand, don't you?

Hand Meaning

/hænd/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe part of the forelimb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.

nounThat which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand., A limb of certain animals, such as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.

Sentence Examples

If you are free, give me a hand.

You have a light hand, don't you?

Ian placed a hand on her shoulder.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

give paw pass

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

I use my right ____ to write and hold things.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

He raised his ____ to ask a question at the end of the professor's long lecture.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *handuz Proto-West Germanic *handu Old English hand Middle English hond English hand From Middle English hond, hand, from Old English hand, from Proto-West Germanic *handu, from Proto-Germanic *handuz. See also Dutch and Swedish hand (“hand”), Danish hånd, German Hand, West Frisian hân. Perhaps compare Old Swedish hinna (“to gain”), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰-𐌷𐌹𐌽𐌸𐌰𐌽 (fra-hinþan, “to take captive, capture”); and Latvian sīts (“hunting spear”), Ancient Greek κεντέω (kentéō, “prick”), Albanian çandër (“pitchfork, prop”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan." — 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

"Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic." — 2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2013:

"The fruits of these kickstarted endeavors began to show in 1915, first in the deployment of a new range of depth charges. These were, mercifully, smaller than Jellicoe's "crushing hand of God" prototype, and, whilst practically just as lethal to submarines, they were significantly less risky to the launching ship, and could also be carried in larger numbers." — 2019 July 24, Drachinifel, 11:06 from the start, in Anti-Sub Warfare in WW1 - From Hammers to Hunter-Killers, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2022:

"I hear the clock a'ticking on the mantel shelf / See the hands a'moving, but I'm by myself" — 1968, Ringo Starr, “Don't Pass Me By”, performed by The Beatles:

"Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together." — 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC, page 6:

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