How to Use by the hand in a Sentence

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• When his halting 90-minute debate debut was over, his wife took him by the hand, escorting him gingerly offstage.
  — Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post, 7 July 2024
• In the first photo, Chicago leads Khloé Kardashian's son Tatum, 19 months, by the hand as the two walk up a sandy bank.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 15 Apr. 2024
• Actors grabbed us by the hand and whisked us from scene to scene.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2023
• Actors grabbed us by the hand and whisked us from scene to scene.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2023
• Owens grabbed her daughter by the hand and forced her out the house, Ruiz said.
  — Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2022
• Being taken by the hand is not the same as being led by the nose.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2022
• Valery, who was a few years older, grabbed Yulia by the hand and dragged her out of the crowd.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
• This would be the best outcome -- a change of regime from within, not by the hand of the West or even its policies.
  — James Nixey, CNN, 23 Sep. 2022
• The men followed, some holding little boys by the hand.
  — John Leicester, Sylvie Corbet and Lewis Joly, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2023
• Basil was in the thick of it, being led by the hand to his marker since the Bloater suit blocked off part of his vision.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2023
• Rader takes her and Moses by the hand, moving them in a gentle rhythm.
  — The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2022
• And the very best books will take you by the hand (metaphorically) and teach you a new skill right in your own kitchen.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 14 Dec. 2023
• Noticing tears, Montana shuffles over to her mom’s side and takes her by the hand.
  — Will Lanzoni, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2023
• And that’s already kind of the point: Thinking happens in the mind, by the hand, with a tool—and, by extension, with the help of others.
  — TIME, 8 Feb. 2024
• The first episode details the murder of Alice Ruggles by the hand of her ex-boyfriend, Harry Dhillon.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 16 Feb. 2023
• There’s no anchor for an audience of a lawyer taking you by the hand from one story to the next.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 27 Apr. 2022
• The teacher takes the student by the hand and shows basic movements: This is a forehand, this is a backhand, this is a serve.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2010
• Reading her poems is like being led by the hand through the streets of Los Angeles.
  — Cauleen Smith, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• Her friend will eventually die by the hand of her abuser.
  — Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2024
• Tyler then allegedly grabbed Bellino by the hand and forced her into a nearby phone booth.
  — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 2 Nov. 2023
• At least, that is, until a chorus member — a girl wearing a sunflower yellow shirt — went up to her and took her by the hand.
  — Matt Stevens, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• Edith took De'Antwan by the hand and led him inside the coffee shop, slipping him cash to order Frappuccinos.
  — Freep.com, 18 Apr. 2021
• After the first plane carrying the deportees landed, the first to climb out were parents with babies in their arms and toddlers by the hand.
  — New York Times, 19 Sep. 2021
• The platters of food had made their first trip around the table (Ari, Sarah noticed, helped himself to the largest piece of breast meat and both of the wings) when Ruby, beaming blissfully, took her boyfriend by the hand.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2021
• So the motel becomes her theme park, a world of freewheeling joy untouched by the hand of a global corporation.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2021
• Obviously made by the hand of man, some appeared quite old, with rocks settled well into the ground and even surrounded by the crumbs of their own weathering.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2021
• Occasionally one of them would have to take Jason by the hand, lead him into the kitchen and ask him gently to eat something, spoonful by spoonful.
  — New York Times, 5 July 2022
• As a sandstorm and frigid winds swept Beijing this week, parents bundling infants in blankets and leading small children by the hand lined up outside a fever clinic.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2022
• From that working and reworking of every sentence comes a precision and a clarity to her writing that takes readers by the hand and gently guides them along.
  — New York Times, 28 June 2021
• And sometimes a character takes the novelist by the hand, leading the way to an unexpected destination.
  — Haruki Murakami, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024