How to Use nondominant in a Sentence

nondominant

adjective
  • Clean it and position it in your nondominant hand so the fork’s tines face down.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Hold the shrimp in your nondominant hand with the outer, convex edge facing you.
    — Meredith Schwartz, Bon Appétit, 4 July 2022
  • Hold it in your nondominant hand wearing a leather glove thick enough to withstand sharp teeth and another nitrile or latex glove over it.
    — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Fold your cloth napkin in half, grasp the bottle from the base with your nondominant hand, place the napkin over the cork and grip with your dominant hand.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Using a piece of tape or any straight line on the floor as a guide, place your feet a little more than shoulder-width apart, then pivot toward your nondominant side.
    — Tovin Lapan, SFChronicle.com, 14 May 2020
  • Some left-handers learn to use their nondominant hand effectively through tools designed for right-handers.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Quickly pass the second ball into your dominant hand, then catch the first ball with your nondominant hand while tossing the second ball against the wall.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 11 June 2021
  • Holding a husk on the nondominant hand, pointed end toward the body, spread a large dollop of masa on half of the top half of the husk, leaving ½ inch of clear space at the top.
    — Minerva Orduño Rincón, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Simply try to enjoy a bowl of soup or sign your name with your nondominant hand to appreciate the impact a hand preference can have on your daily life.
    — Eric Horstick, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Like writing backward, using my nondominant hand opened a different compartment in my brain.
    — Joan Baez, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Eldridge told jurors that officers are required to carry their Taser on their nondominant side and their firearm on their dominant side.
    — Amy Forliti and Steve Karnowski, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Using the comb, tweezers or your hands, pull the gum out of the hair by holding the hair close to the head by your nondominant hand and use your dominant hand to pull the gum and oil off the end of the hair.
    — Laura Wheatman Hill, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2021
  • To avoid confusion, officers typically carry their stun guns on their weak sides, by their nondominant hand, and away from handguns carried on their strong side.
    — Steve Karnowski, ajc, 28 Nov. 2021
  • But others of us are relearning multiplication tables or bouncing a baby on one hip while fielding emails with a nondominant hand.
    — Dawn Perry, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Most commonly, injuries happen while attempting to remove the pit with a knife while holding the avocado in your nondominant hand.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Most people choose their nondominant hand for the vaccine, but some patients prefer using their dominant hand, because the arm movement seems to make the soreness get better faster.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 19 Nov. 2021
  • This appears to be especially important for nondominant groups.
    — Adam Grant, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2020
  • At the time of Wright’s shooting, protocol for Brooklyn Center officers such as Potter was to wear theirs on their nondominant side.
    — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Guitarists, violinists, and other string players commonly develop these on their nondominant hands from practicing and playing.
    — Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Two shots to the head are rare in suicide attempts says Joe Parrish, but two shots using a nondominant hand to pull the trigger seemed nearly impossible to the longtime investigator.
    — David Begnaud, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2023
  • In these kinds of experiments, participants are told to practice physical activities—finger tapping, coin tossing, dart throwing with a nondominant hand—within their dreams.
    — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 1 May 2026
  • Rai is the only player on the PGA Tour who wears two black weatherproof rain gloves, rain or shine, May or November, instead of one traditional white leather glove on the nondominant hand.
    — Gabby Herzig, New York Times, 18 May 2026
  • Chan also provided the illustrations—ink drawings made with his nondominant (left) hand—which manage somewhat miraculously to convey both childlike playfulness and sophisticated meaning.
    — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 10 Nov. 2020
  • In effect, both lefties and righties seem to become more adept at using their nondominant hand when externally motivated to do so—and digital technologies, with their indifference to organic asymmetry, seem to have provided the necessary motivation.
    — WIRED, 9 Feb. 2023

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