How to Use left-hand in a Sentence

left-hand

adjective
  • Look at this pile of debris over here to my left-hand side.
    — Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Tap the back arrow in the upper left-hand corner of the screen to exit.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Click the left-hand yellow arrow in the upper left of the screen to exit.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 3 Oct. 2024
  • In comes the cornet flanked by his right- and left-hand men, all three in ties, top hats, green frocks, breeches and boots.
    — Yannic Rack, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2024
  • Using scissors, cut seven to 10 small slits on the bottom left-hand half of the card.
    — Nicole Harris, Parents, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Hulu, Disney+, and Prime Video force users to click over to a left-hand submenu and then scroll down a bit to finally get to their lists.
    — Vulture, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Plans show the 2 miles would be widened to three, 12-foot-wide lanes with a continuous left-hand turning lane.
    — Lynn Kutter, arkansasonline.com, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The move into Japan marks the company’s first in a left-hand traffic market.
    — Jennifer Elias,lora Kolodny, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The reel also has a reversible handle for right- or left-hand retrieve.
    — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 30 May 2024
  • The example on the left-hand side of the figure below illustrates this case.
    — Karl Freund, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Toward the end of the second quarter against the Golden State Warriors, Barnes sustained a left-hand injury and was ruled out for the rest of the game.
    — Esfandiar Baraheni, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The strike zone was shown on the scoreboard and revealed the pitch had actually hit the lower left-hand corner.
    — Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Images from the scene show the cockpit area of the Learjet almost completely caved in on its left-hand side with a red tarp over it.
    — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 12 Feb. 2025
  • To find out a farm’s official name, look at the upper left-hand corner of your paycheck, above the address.
    — Maryam Jameel, ProPublica, 3 June 2024
  • So the upper left-hand corner of the screen is mostly captions of the music, and then in the upper right-hand corner is a lot of the sound effects.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 25 Feb. 2025
  • On the upper left-hand side is the resource cost and, below it, the attack power, resources, and Force the card generates.
    — Aaron Zimmerman, Ars Technica, 4 May 2023
  • Ellet’s story of becoming an NFL coach despite the loss of his arm has garnered him the nickname, the left-hand man.
    — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Your left-hand opponent doesn’t have many hearts and probably not many spades.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Hunters can view images all the way back to March of 2023 by changing the recent imagery date in the bottom left-hand corner, right above the hunt layers tab.
    — Ryan Chelius, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2024
  • These days, travelers flock here for two main reasons: to see jaw-dropping sunsets and to seek out left-hand surf breaks.
    — Madeline Bilis, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The 26-year-old Mäder crashed after a left-hand turn on a fast downhill road approaching the end of the mountainous fifth stage into La Punt.
    — Graham Dunbar, ajc, 16 June 2023
  • Instead, McGregor decked the mascot with two left-hand punches that had some force.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 11 June 2023
  • Aiyuk walks past reporters as practice is about to begin and makes a left-hand turn and walks toward Levi’s Stadium.
    — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Each box and glove combination produces one of two outcomes, either a right-hand glove or a left-hand glove.
    — William Mark Stuckey, The Conversation, 30 July 2024
  • The child is tucked away in the bottom left-hand corner, but in the mind of curator and art historian Alayo Akinkugbe, his presence fills the entire frame.
    — Leah Dolan, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Many of the TikTok clips show women in their caps and gowns flashing sparkly diamonds on their left-hand ring fingers.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The ramp, a left-hand exit, makes a tight 180-degree turn before looping under the freeway next to the landmark towers of One Rincon Hill.
    — Bay City News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2024
  • For anglophones, there are incentives in that everyone speaks English, plus for the British, everyone drives on the left-hand side of the road.
    — Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The left-hand toolbar features many options, which can be overwhelming for new e-shop owners.
    — Robert Anderson, PCMAG, 22 Oct. 2024
  • If bolted onto the right side of a bike, the sidecar will brake and decelerate in right-hand turns and accelerate in left-hand turns.
    — New Atlas, 4 Oct. 2024

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