How to Use palm in a Sentence

palm

1 of 2 noun
  • Push back up through your palms.
    — Rikkilynn Shields Hannigan, Health, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Next, do not over prune your palms.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The trees were the four-trunk king palms.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Place your arms at your sides, palms down.
    — Kristen Fischer, Health, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Her chin slumped in the palm of her hand.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Avoid rolling it on the counter with your palm.
    — Cody Godwin, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Place the heels of your palms on the edge, next to your hips.
    — Jenessa Connor, Health, 28 May 2026
  • Open the arms with palms facing up.
    — Patrick Franco, CNBC, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The ant, curled like a comma in my palm.
    — Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
  • Place the palms of your hands on the ground in front of your feet.
    — Jenessa Connor, Health, 30 Dec. 2025
  • People read auras and palms, too.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Your palms should be facing your body.
    — Jenessa Connor, Health, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Your palms should be facing your body.
    — Jenessa Connor, Health, 11 May 2026
  • Fringed palm fronds flutter in the breeze.
    — Jason Sheeler, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Martha pressed her palm against the wall behind her.
    — CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
  • My heart began to race; my palms got sweaty.
    — Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Push up through your palms to return to a plank.
    — Jenessa Connor, Health, 28 May 2026
  • Her entire body fit in the palm of a man's hand.
    — Laura L. Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Keep your arm close to your body and bring your palm to your rib cage.
    — Mallory Creveling, Health, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Ma crawls toward you and plants her palms on your cheeks.
    — Molly Aitken, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
  • As the ocean breeze kicked up, the palms rustled around us.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026
  • Push through your palms to straighten your arms and lift your hips.
    — Jenessa Connor, Health, 28 May 2026
  • Pop in a majesty palm or fern for a burst of height or greenery.
    — Lauren Bengtson, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Gently hold the fruit in the palm of your hand with your thumb near the stem.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Oak, pine, maple, fig, date palm make their case by touting their strengths.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The puppy is held in the palm of someone's hand.
    — Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The brick crumbled and left behind red flakes on her palm.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The mouse is perfect for palm-grip players like me.
    — PC Magazine, 18 Sep. 2025
  • His eyes were misted and his palms were trembling.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Feb. 2026
  • First time ever using hearts of palm but was quite pleased.
    — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 7 Apr. 2026

palm

2 of 2 verb
  • To do the card trick, you have to learn to palm one of the cards.
  • He was called for palming the ball.
  • The kick was palmed away by the goalkeeper.
  • The store's owner had seen one of the girls palm a lipstick before heading for the door.
  • But the ball was not quite in the corner and Raya palmed it away.
    — Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Hold a melon in one hand, palm up on the bottom of the melon.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2020
  • One of the others mimed palming the girl’s rear while the third snapped a photo.
    — Dan Greene, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
  • Slicing this way makes the lemons easier to palm.
    — Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Slicing this way makes the lemons easier to palm.
    — Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Slicing this way makes the lemons easier to palm.
    — Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The gesture is a hand up, palm out, with the thumb tucked, then folding the fingers down.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2021
  • To assess my health, my aunt would palm my forehead and check my tongue for changes in color and shape.
    — Meng Jin, Vogue, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Miller shouts, palming the phone in his right hand like a basketball, repeating it again for effect.
    — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 21 May 2024
  • When he was stopped, Harris tried to palm the gun off on a colleague, who sensibly declined the gift.
    — Gail Collins New York Times, Star Tribune, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The left hand pointing down, palm out, displays the varadamudra (giving gesture, a kind of mudra).
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Bayindir palmed Rice’s corner backwards, and was only saved from an own goal by Calafiori nodding in on the line.
    — Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The woman had pushed aside her scarf and unbuttoned her coat so that my mother could place her hand, palm down, directly onto her dress.
    — Sanaë Lemoine, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • While there are still some round-bodied reels on the market, most of today’s offerings have a low profile which allows them to be palmed.
    — Pete Robbins, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Just six yards out, Teze powered a header on target, but Vicario spread himself across the goal and palmed his shot away.
    — Elias Burke, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Lather Rub your hands palm to palm to create a good lather, ensuring the front surfaces of your hands are thoroughly cleaned.
    — Sarah Jividen, Verywell Health, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Harris brings her hands palm to palm, tucks them between her knees, and lets her shoulders fall forward and her neck tilt up toward the monitor, rolling a lozenge on her tongue.
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Hampton palmed away Aitana Bonmati’s effort.
    — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Major League Baseball wagged a finger with one hand and palmed gate receipts and a new TV deal in the other.
    — Jeremy Collins, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Pick something that looks tasty and slightly intimidating and clumsily palm some chopsticks.
    — Bradley Hohulin, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Yimmi Chara in the 54th minute had one from inside the box that goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa had to palm over the bar.
    — Caitlin Murray, oregonlive, 6 May 2021
  • The result was the same — chaos in the six-yard box that restricted Altay Bayindir, who palmed the ball straight onto Calafiori’s forehead.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • In the 63rd minute, Pochettino fired a rocket from just outside the box toward the far post, and Clark had to dive at full stretch to palm it wide of net.
    — Caitlin Murray, oregonlive, 1 July 2021
  • Sibley, trying to get between Popov and his friends, made contact with the teen, palms out and open handed, and Popov stabbed him in the heart, Jafari said.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 11 May 2026
  • Gross also got Brighton’s second after David de Gea palmed Solly March’s shot from right side of the box back into danger.
    — Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • After a 20-second handwash with soap and drying their hands with a paper towel, a worker places their hands — first palms up, then palms down — under the scanner to activate it.
    — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024

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