cool hand
Example Sentences
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“Recently, I tried to draw a leg, and it didn’t work out, but it wound up being a pretty cool hand instead.”
From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2023
On Tuesday we entered the last two-thirds of the year, and in Washington we did it with a cool hand under a gray sky, which seemed without affinity for the date and season.
From Washington Post • May 2, 2023
Judge Kubota said that the fear and outrage stirred by cases like Ms. Ireland’s “can whip up a firestorm” that is hard for “the cool hand of justice to quell.”
From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2023
He covered her small cool hand on the table with his own, which was huge and hot, calloused across the palm, black dirt rimming the nails.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 21, 2019
When Mother called us to eat and I said I wasn’t hungry, she laid her cool hand on my forehead and cheeks.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
