How to Use hand back in a Sentence

hand back

phrasal verb
Definition of hand backnext
  • Now lower your knee back to the roller and hand back to the ground.
    — Jay Dicharry, Outside Online, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Untwist your body, and place your hand back on the floor.
    — Jay Dicharry, Outside Online, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Place your hand back on the ground, then repeat on the other side.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 18 May 2023
  • Leave the weight outside where that hand is placed, put your hand back on the ground, then perform a pushup.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
  • That is also how it will be handed back to the customer.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2024
  • To return to Crab, pull your top hand back in front of your face, gaze toward the ceiling, and lower the hips with control.
    — Alyssa Ages, Outside Online, 29 July 2024
  • Untwist your torso and put your left hand back behind you.
    — Greg Presto, Men's Health, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Cameras caught Williams, 22, smiling and dancing in his seat to Earth, Wind & Fire, while moving his hands back and forth.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2024
  • One of them was Kimberly, the student who had taken Winslow’s hand back in August.
    — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 23 June 2024
  • Exactly one minute later, Gabby handed back the microphone, and cheers swept them off the stage.
    — Alden Woods, The Arizona Republic, 23 July 2024
  • But by Monday morning, the cold front will drop low temperatures around the region into the 30s, handing back North Texas its winter.
    — David Montesino, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Once the empty trucks have been returned to the temporary pier, they would be handed back to the Americans, who would then take them out to the floating offshore dock to refill them with aid and start the process again.
    — Carol E. Lee, NBC News, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Like when the entire crowd of politicos and arts enthusiasts thrust their hands back and forth and swayed to a hip-hop medley honoring Latifah.
    — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Prices surged Monday, only to hand back a large chunk of those gains Tuesday, as news emerged that workers at two Chevron facilities in Australia had set a date for stoppages.
    — By angus Berwick, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Video published by People shows Tatum walking forward, before reaching his hand back for his fiancée.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 16 July 2024
  • The belts Crawford handed back will always belong to Spence, but the welterweight division belongs to Crawford.
    — Morgan Campbell, New York Times, 30 July 2023
  • If the claim succeeds, Musk could be compelled to hand back some of his fortune and potentially to reconsider his cavalier view of legal threats.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Advertisement The Bruins had gone ahead on quarterback Josh Rosen’s 37-yard touchdown run with 69 seconds left, only to hand back the lead like a stadium giveaway.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The stock gyrated premarket, jumping roughly 10% before handing back most of those gains.
    — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2023
  • They’re taught and tested and trained, and the donor’s ashes are eventually handed back over to their family, their final sacrifice complete.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2023
  • One matter of concern is that major commercial-property companies like Brookfield and Blackstone are walking away from their mortgages and handing back the keys to the lenders.
    — Desmond Lachman, National Review, 12 Jan. 2024
  • But on both occasions, Detroit was unable to convert and possession was handed back to San Francisco.
    — Ben Morse, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Panjabi instinctively moves to touch her child multiple times, only to suddenly draw her hand back, remembering that the killer is still at large.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2024
  • In a symbolic gesture, Germany’s foreign minister flew to Nigeria in December, and handed back the first 20 items, with more scheduled to follow.
    — Alex Marshall, New York Times, 4 June 2023
  • After cheers and congratulations from friends and family, she was handed back her red walker.
    — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Now, legal experts said, McCormick’s ruling almost certainly will require Tesla to devise a plan to hand back Musk’s stock options.
    — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Meta stock was down 0.1%, handing back earlier gains, after rising about 3% yesterday.
    — WSJ, 6 July 2023
  • Among the artworks being handed back — 14 to Cambodia and two to Thailand — are important pieces that the museum has described as being among the finest surviving examples of sculptures from the Angkor period.
    — Tom Mashberg, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Last month, Cambridge University postponed a ceremony to hand back ownership of 116 bronzes.
    — Alex Marshall, New York Times, 4 June 2023
  • Setting aside the dubious nature of the allegations against the Bidens, the biggest issue is probably that Trump has all but admitted to refusing to hand back the classified documents for months after leaving office.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 June 2023

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