How to Use hand back in a Sentence

hand back

verb
  • Slowly bring your hands back to your chest.
    — Jakob Roze, Health, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Walk your hands back toward your feet and roll up to stand.
    — Mallory Creveling, Health, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Perform a push-up, then walk your hands back toward your feet and stand up.
    — Rikkilynn Shields Hannigan, Health, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Place your hand back down to return to the plank position.
    — Mallory Creveling, Health, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Bring your hand back down and repeat for 30 seconds on both sides.
    — Ciara Lucas, SELF, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Straka laughed and playfully reached his hand back out.
    — Brody Miller, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The doorbell might ring with a request for Bob or to hand back something borrowed.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Justin also held his hands back, guarding his son while placing the back of his head on Jack’s stomach.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • So any time ‘freed’ by automation is far more likely to be filled with new tasks than handed back to workers.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2026
  • It was handed back to the Crown Estate in 1996.
    — Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • No money is handed back to the applicant as a bank account payout or cash reward.
    — Richard Lane, Des Moines Register, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Once detected, the robot can slow down, stop, or hand back control within milliseconds.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The key question isn't what can be automated but where automation must hand back control to a human.
    — Unni Nambiar, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The protective father also held his hands back, guarding his son while placing the back of his head on Jack’s stomach.
    — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The protective father also held his hands back, guarding his son while placing the back of his head on Jack’s stomach.
    — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The focus in the box was trading out a leg kick for a toe tap and moving his hands back at the start of his swing, adjustments aimed at more direct path to the ball.
    — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The clash began when one woman grabbed another’s hand, prompting the second woman to yank her hand back and jab her in the stomach with an elbow.
    — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Even the fastest text-to-video systems still hand back an MP4 several minutes after a request.
    — Vivian Toh, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
  • Berrios-Otero then allegedly kissed the child’s head, pulled him closer and put his hand back under the blanket, the warrant affidavits said.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 2 May 2026
  • The money comes from the same ratepayers who just got hit with a 29% rate increase — taken from the middle class, handed back in an election year, and called relief.
    — Josh Elliott, Hartford Courant, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Investors who bought at or near the pre-lockup peak, when the headlines were strongest and the float was smallest, were generally handed back losses by the time the lockup mechanics played out.
    — Joel Shulman, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • Of the bodies handed back by Israel, about 100 have been identified by families, al-Wahidi said.
    — Arkansas Online, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Of the bodies handed back by Israel, about 100 have been identified by families, al-Wahidi said.
    — Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
  • When Norris rejoined the race, McLaren asked Piastri to hand back P2 to Norris.
    — Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Having waited 22 years to get its hands back on the Premier League trophy, Arsenal’s wait in Europe goes on.
    — James Robson, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
  • Carol Burnett is reaching her hand back to offer support to aspiring musical theater performers.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Lai acquired British citizenship before Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 15 Dec. 2025
  • On Friday, Ohtani handed back over pitch-calling duties, communicating with head shakes and nods instead of the PitchCom buttons on his arm.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026
  • Piastri lost two places in the scuffle, revealing his frustration on the team radio and inquiring if McLaren would interfere by potentially asking Norris to hand back the place to him.
    — Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
  • After several attempts, Hoban managed to put André Alexis’ novel into Landreth’s hands back in 2018.
    — Kevin Giraud, Variety, 14 Feb. 2026

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