How to Use handedness in a Sentence

handedness

noun
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  • The announcement comes at the end of a week that has seen the force accused of heavy-handedness.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN, 12 July 2019
  • What works against him for me right now is his left-handedness.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The message of all this heavy-handedness is two-pronged.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The Mavericks’ short-handedness glared in the box score.
    — Dallas News, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Brown said Smith’s sure-handedness will be one of his greatest strengths from day one.
    — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Aug. 2020
  • The heavy handedness is to achieve a certain result . .
    — Fox News, 26 June 2018
  • The film—the first for both Fails and Talbot—is not without moments of youthful heavy-handedness.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 7 June 2019
  • The Lakers’ short-handedness should be setting off alarm bells at the Spurs’ team hotel.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The cause for left-handedness in the brain comes down to a number of possibilities.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 19 Oct. 2022
  • And harsh penalties will create incentives for firms to err on the side of heavy-handedness.
    — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
  • That nuance speaks to IG Michael Horowitz’s long career known for even-handedness.
    — Time, 11 Dec. 2019
  • On the face of it, the government’s heavy-handedness makes no logical sense.
    — Wesley J. Smith, National Review, 24 Jan. 2020
  • His even-handedness in that move has been questioned by Clinton and other Democrats.
    — John McCormick, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2017
  • But there has been no major outbreak of protests, thanks in large part to the police's heavy handedness in dealing with any sign of unrest.
    — Hamza Hendawi, Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018
  • The easing appears to be substantial given the heavy-handedness of zero-Covid over the past three years.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2022
  • But by that time the non-narco part of the economy was flailing and Bolivians were tired of his heavy-handedness.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Jay Hamilton, a 45-year-old D.C. resident who was at the protest on Tuesday, thinks the heavy-handedness of the police has provoked the riots.
    — Brian Bennett, Time, 3 June 2020
  • Molecular locks can only be opened with a key of the correct handedness.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Nov. 2014
  • Two species did in the normal water, with one showing reduced handedness in the high-CO2 water.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2020
  • The history of training people to use the non-dominant hand is fraught with abuse, as left-handedness was once the source of stigma.
    — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 3 July 2018
  • Three species showed no signs of handedness in either normal or high-CO2 water.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Nuns tried to correct Bridgeman’s left-handedness by slapping a ruler to his hand, Ajamu said.
    — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 29 June 2021
  • Alas, heavy-handedness with the oil — even the nicely green and crisp broccolini was saturated — and a grave dearth of sausage made this one a bit of a clunker.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • This heavy-handedness at times gives the novel a certain flatness; despite their entanglements, the good guys and the bad guys are easy to tell apart.
    — Sophie Haigney, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Elephants have a tusk preference the way humans do for right- or left-handedness.
    — jsonline.com, 23 Dec. 2020
  • The heavy-handedness that both Guichaoua and Lyammouri warned against is already apparent.
    — Max Bearak, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2017
  • For many years, scientists thought that handedness was unique to humans.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2021
  • The left-handedness of the weak force has subtle effects that couldn’t have influenced the cosmos on galactic scales.
    — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The particular spin of an electron, for example, is sometimes called handedness.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2023
  • While these calculations didn’t discern the universe’s handedness, previous studies have theorized that the universe has a left-handed bias (that’s good new for Ned Flanders).
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2023

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