How to Use hand over in a Sentence

hand over

verb
  • The three leaders stood with their hands over their hearts as the taps played.
    — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 27 May 2024
  • Turn your left hand over, thumb down, reach across your chest, and grab the back of the doorframe.
    — Kyle Norman, Outside Online, 30 Nov. 2021
  • And a reminder of all the stuff Xbox will hand over to Discord in this process.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 20 July 2022
  • Both Tiana and Olympia pose with one hand over their chest and smile for the camera.
    — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 20 Apr. 2022
  • That isn’t to say that Jost is handing over knock-knock jokes.
    — Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2025
  • The title and the image were enough to persuade me to hand over my money.
    — Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Meghan approached a teenager in the crowd, who put her hand over her mouth in shock.
    — Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2022
  • By the end of the song, Bon Jovi was standing in approval, holding his hands over his heart.
    — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Try this: Turn on the stovetop in your kitchen, and hold your hand over a burner but don’t touch it.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 7 Jan. 2022
  • The archivist is set to hand over more documents in the weeks and months to come.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Still, many people have had to hand over their pets to Harvilicz for now.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The traditional stiff-arm salute was dropped in the 1940s in favor of the hand over the heart to avoid analogies to the Nazi salute.
    — New York Times, 2 Apr. 2022
  • The suspects pointed a firearm at his head and ordered him to hand over the car keys, the report states.
    — Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Then the Russians demanded the staff hand over their phones.
    — Joe Parkinson and Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Lie with your back on a bench, a dumbbell held in your left hand over your shoulder, feet flat on the floor.
    — Men's Health, 9 Feb. 2023
  • There will be no cushions to sit upon or wood grain to run your hand over.
    — Hannah Holland, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2023
  • An officer asked Knotts to get down and hand over his son, the reports say.
    — Kelli Smith, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Max Schachter, whose son Alex was killed, looked down, hand over face, shaking his head.
    — Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2022
  • The way to handle an untimely laugh is to cup your hand over your mouth and pass it off as a cough.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2023
  • That Peter’s father did hand over secrets and was a traitor, so to speak.
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 23 Mar. 2023
  • In the video, Hill had handed over his license to the officer.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2024
  • The entire society and schools work hard to hand over this to young people.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The video shows the man holding his hand over his face and later with his head down and his palm over his forehead.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 21 July 2022
  • In the snap, Brittany held Golden's tiny feet in her hand and Patrick rested his hand over top.
    — Effie Orfanides, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Then, just hand over your passports and documents to your host, and the rest is taken care of.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The decision cleared the way for the Treasury Department to hand over the records to the House, which has been trying to get them since 2019.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The motion-sensing lid opens just by waving your hand over the top.
    — Maya Polton, Parents, 4 Aug. 2023
  • One prospective juror broke out in giggles, and put a hand over her mouth.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2024
  • One of the main services WTS provides is punch listing—the final detailing process before a property is handed over to a buyer.
    — Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Ultimately, Batista ordered Smith to hand over his license.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2025

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