hand in
Example Sentences
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He then moved to Devon and "kept his hand in playing on the local pub scene", before he retired from music and came back to Leicester.
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026
More broadly, businesses are reclaiming the upper hand in the employer-employee relationship after a period of worker empowerment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Breathing problems, heart problems, allergies, respiratory cancers — MDs realized smog had a heavy hand in them all.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
Some of the buildings at the Thahtay Kyaung monastery, where saffron-clad monks cleared rubble from the wreckage by hand in the days after the quake, have been razed.
From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026
Eddie sits up straighter and then waves her hand in the air.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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