Sentence examples for back of a hand from inspiring English sources

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"It's certainly critical that underlying all of this is the concept of providing a helping hand rather than the back of a hand," he said.

Even at normal stages, the Mississippi was beginning to stand up like a large vein on the back of a hand.

Social roles are clearly defined here, and transgressions are swiftly punished, either with the back of a hand, or in more serious matters, with excommunication and ritual shunning.

"It's only boys having fun," he tells Gogol, flicking the matter away with the back of a hand, and that evening they drive to the hardware store, to buy the missing letters again.

A person's finger effectively becomes the "chip" on a conventional bank card, as the infra-red device reads the unique vein pattern just below the skin surface of a finger or the back of a hand.

on the back of a hand.

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After a quick negotiation (he promised to go to the bank), Junger wiped his forehead with the back of a bronzed hand.

Participants observed an index finger moving towards a red dot at a pace of 1 Hz from the back of an outstretched hand facing away from the observer [7].

"Come here," she says, conspiratorially, in low-pitched Italian, taking me by the arm to inspect the back of a vast hand-painted stage curtain.

We also see a black sun on the back of his hand, a symbol associated with Nazi mysticism consisting of three nested swastikas.

If you're using the sticky tape, a good tip is to dab the sticky side against the back of your hand a couple of times before you attach it to your nail.

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