How to Use hand-to-hand in a Sentence

hand-to-hand

1 of 2 adjective
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  • There is hand-to-hand combat in this show as well as gunshots and gore.
    — Eric E. Harrison, arkansasonline.com, 27 July 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
  • 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
  • The hand-to-hand combat between rioters and police was among the most violent moments of the day.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 17 June 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
  • Naturally, there’s a lot of hand-to-hand combat in The Union, which Wahlberg has experienced in several films throughout his career.
    — Tim Lammers, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • Just within the bloody confines of the Coliseum, there’s a makeshift naval battle, a charging rhinoceros, and some wildly intense hand-to-hand combat.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2024
  • 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
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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
  • It’s forged with the intention of being passed from hand to hand, taken as plunder, given as a gift or handed down to heirs.
    — David M. Perry and Matthew Gabriele, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
  • 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 | Crobinson@al.com, 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

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