How to Use hand-to-hand in a Sentence

hand-to-hand

1 of 2 adjective

• Then, after some intense hand-to-hand and lightsaber-to-knife combat, Mae flings a blade deep into Indara’s chest.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 4 June 2024
• This was a problem on the first day because the district requires a hand-to-hand drop-off.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 15 Aug. 2023
• One of Williams’s co-defendants has been accused of a hand-to-hand drug swap in full view of judge.
  — Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2024
• In each video, the suspect is immobilized and on the ground without hand-to-hand combat or the use of a firearm.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2024
• John has some solid brawls with the Covenant, including one hand-to-hand knife battle with an Elite.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• With both Charly and Hassan now captive, Griselda decides to make the two fight to the death in hand-to-hand combat.
  — Megan McCluskey, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
• Learn more › Created in the 19th century by master knife maker Jim Bowie, the first bowie knives were built for hand-to-hand combat.
  — Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 19 July 2023
• The sequence features the things Wick fans would want: head shots, close-quarter hand-to-hand combat, blood spurts and bodies everywhere.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2023
• Glass is not afraid of lingering on an open wound or dragging out hand-to-hand combat to the most gruesome conclusions.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
• The teams participated in live-fire drills and hand-to-hand combat and learned how to handle roadside bombs, the biggest threat from Al-Shabaab.
  — Rupa Palla, NBC News, 9 July 2023
• Sawayama learned archery, knife-fighting and hand-to-hand combat for her kickass scenes, which were shot entirely at night over five weeks.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2023
• Secondly, these games offer so much more than hand-to-hand martial arts action.
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
• But this conflict, with its hand-to-hand combat and profusion of land mines, feels like a throwback to the kind of civil war that was documented in black and white.
  — Hannah Beech Adam Ferguson, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
• The fighting is so close-quartered that hand-to-hand combat is not uncommon, Ukrainian soldiers say.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 7 Mar. 2023
• At the same time across town, another agent is in the basement of a derelict church trying to disarm the reverend’s equally sadistic brother in hand-to-hand combat.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 19 Aug. 2023
• My experience with more fight sequences isn’t hand-to-hand fighting.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 May 2023
• Fights also include hand-to-hand combat, weaponry and sorcery.
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
• People are injured or die via explosions, poison, shooting, snake bites, hand-to-hand combat with weapons and more.
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• Davis engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy and had to fire a rifle with his pinkie finger after his hand was shattered by a grenade, according to the Army Times.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 3 Mar. 2023
• For most of its run, The Americans' action set pieces were all mostly emotional (give or take the occasional murder or hand-to-hand fight).
  — Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 3 May 2024
• As the microphone went from hand-to-hand, children and adults cried out in frustration at Kentucky's gun laws and the ongoing need for better mental health resources.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 12 Apr. 2023
• In fact, anybody familiar with hand-to-hand combat or even anybody who has worked as a bouncer at a bar knows that a choke hold is a terrible way of restraining someone.
  — Alex Thomas, The New Republic, 9 June 2023
• The meeting’s minutes detail cases where patients have choked, punched and pulled their caregivers to the ground by their coats, even doing hand-to-hand combat with officers in the middle of busy emergency rooms.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2023
• Racks of obviously fake test tubes are relayed hand-to-hand when Tommy is being examined by doctors.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
• Boyega’s immediate response is to engage in hand-to-hand combat.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2023
• Fellow officers described hand-to-hand combat with rioters, as officers slipped in blood and vomit on the Capitol steps.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2023
• The efforts resemble hand-to-hand political combat in both public and private.
  — Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
• The team tried to nullify the tricks by actually completing the hand-to-hand transfers, instead of using misdirection.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2023
• The show will feature traditional circus acts, including trapeze, hand-to-hand, aerial straps, hand-to trapeze, juggling and hand balancing, all adapted to be performed on ice.
  — Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 4 Jan. 2024
• Sam Taylor—Netflix Erin’s knowledge of hand-to-hand combat isn’t just theoretical.
  — Time, 24 Aug. 2023

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hand to hand

2 of 2 adverb

• Pick the dough up and pass it gently from hand to hand.
  — Carlo Mirarchi, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2021
• Novices begin with two balls and work to keep them in motion from hand to hand.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 24 Mar. 2020
• The most magical thing is the way the books were passed from hand to hand amongst kids, and adults sort of didn’t know anything about it.
  — Staff and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2021
• There, building projects don’t just transfer from hand to hand.
  — Serenity Gibbons, Forbes, 9 June 2022
• The workers formed a line up the side of the rubble pile and passed the children from hand to hand down to the waiting ambulances.
  — Safak Timur, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
• The fighting was brutal, hand to hand, and the British paratroopers were overrun.
  — National Geographic, 6 May 2020
• This is the way indigo spreads: seeds passed from hand to hand making their way up and down the South Carolina coast.
  — Latria Graham, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
• The outdoor shoes are removed (Hanks makes sure to toss ’em lightly from hand to hand) and replaced by footwear more suited to the home.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2019
• That included a video post on Twitter that showed him tossing a brick from hand to hand while moving side to side and back and forth.
  — Laurence Miedema, The Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2019
• The punishment should be delivered hand to hand, there should not be any delays and the cases should not go on for years.
  — Manveena Suri, CNN, 8 May 2018
• The painting passed from hand to hand, with Liber’s co-worker’s brother’s friend agreeing to deliver it.
  — Kate Dwyer, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2022
• Passglas, which means ‘the glass that passes from hand to hand’ was an after-dinner game where the drinker’s task was to slurp precisely the right amount, right up to the marked circle.
  — Marisel Salazar, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2021
• Electronic payment can also help a patient avoid ATM fees and touching cash that has been passed from hand to hand.
  — Bethany Rodgers, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Sep. 2020
• In poker, each player has to act in the now and change plans and strategies from hand to hand, competition to competition and day to day.
  — Johan Hajji, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
• Once the dash was over, those hoplites who survived could fight hand to hand and press the advantage of better protection from their sturdier shields.
  — National Geographic, 6 Feb. 2020
• The cars face opposite directions, and the drivers do the transaction hand to hand, window to window.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 25 Oct. 2017
• Captain Taylor, therefore, determined to attack the Englishmen in open boats and board and capture her by a hand to hand fight.
  — Nancy Stearns Theiss, The Courier-Journal, 23 Dec. 2017
• Swiftly pass the weight back and forth from hand to hand; doing this quickly will improve your ankle stability.
  — Lindsay Berra, Men's Health, 18 Jan. 2023
• In one makeshift port and then another there is splashing and disembarking and then cries and hugs as babies are gingerly passed from hand to hand.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
• The video captured multiple hand to hand transactions wherein Ozment was engaged in the sale of methamphetamine.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 6 Sep. 2022
• For women, the third degree test was a 10 man kumite (hand to hand fighting), but Shihan completed a 30 man kumite, which is the male testing requirement.
  — Courant Community, 13 Mar. 2018
• Sadly, after having gone from hand to hand and being protected that entire time, at this last moment the secret was revealed.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 June 2021
• Being a coastal grandmother means wearing loose, breathable fabrics and doing strength training by shifting a full glass of Sauvignon Blanc from hand to hand.
  — Glamour, 26 Apr. 2022
• But Silva and his friends move easily through the alleys and passageways of their community and distribute the paper by passing it out hand to hand.
  — Mimi Whitefield, miamiherald, 17 Oct. 2017
• Dance historians are fond of proclaiming that dance, alone among the Western arts, is passed down hand to hand, like folk arts in traditional societies.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
• Officers observed the driver making hand to hand transactions Thursday and called for a marked police vehicle to stop the driver and arrest him, the release states.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 10 July 2020
• As the microphone passed from hand to hand, the words of our employees became increasingly personal and emotional.
  — Michelle Murphy, Quartz at Work, 24 July 2019
• Swings were delivered at random, baton passing from hand to hand in no particular order.
  — Lenora Chu, The Cut, 11 Oct. 2017
• Gang Unit Officers conducting surveillance in Avondale observed the occupants of a black Kia involved in a hand to hand drug transaction.
  — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 28 Aug. 2020
• After the ceremony, the music came on, and the men broke into an ecstatic dance, holding aloft not only the groom but also knives, assault rifles, and what appeared to be a Molotov cocktail, passing them from hand to hand.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 25 Jul 2024