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View definitions for use one's hands

use one's hands

verb as in gesture/gesticulate

verb as in signalize

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Example Sentences

A mini-scandal erupted after a Bloomberg reporter discovered that one could use one’s hands to wring juice out of the proprietary juice packs, and fill a glass with juice much faster than the machine can.

From Salon

It is necessary here and there to use one's hands, in order to creep through the brushwood along the steep wall of rock, till the shore of the lake is at last reached.

As one goes westwards, the angle of the cliffs becomes less, and from Abbot's Cliff towards Folkestone it is rarely necessary to use one's hands, though very nice 'balance' is essential, as the results of a slip would usually be serious.

To use one's hands in sports was American, to use one's feet was the purview of the followers of Marx and Lenin.

From Slate

"It is not enough to pray to Allah, and to receive into one's soul the precepts of the Koran; one must also use one's hands industriously, and learn the precepts of worldly wisdom, and the very first of these is, 'Have money, and you can obtain all else.'"

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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