Sentence examples for backed one hand from inspiring English sources

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The matching attire, through to the symmetrical posture – straight backed, one hand clasped over the other – whiffed of PR tutoring; but the show of unity failed to embed further.

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I slip into the bush, with Jean on my back, one hand holding the crucifix, the other shielding my eyes from the tall grass and the branches, my feet cold and bracing for thorns.

I joined him there and sat down next to him while he stretched his legs on a deck chair and leaned back, one hand behind his head, the other holding his pipe in mid-air.

The judge murmured back, one hand over the microphone.

Then Strahan pulls back one hand -- almost always his right hand -- and drives it into the left side of the lineman who has lost his equilibrium and is ready to be toppled.

McCullin counted 51 bites on the back of one hand, and on the first night, his last words were: "I do not much like what I see".

At the beginning of the study, the researchers graded, on a six-point scale, the amount of aging seen on the back of one hand of all participants, and then they regraded the hands again 4.5 years later.

"Frederick Moss, a 54-mile core group marcher, rest from exhaustion on Dexter Avenue, the Terminus of the Selma to Montgomery March (25 March 1965)" says the handwritten description of the black-and-white photograph of a young man lying on his back with one hand behind his head and with his other hand balancing a small American flag perpendicular above his stomach.

This island, the most easterly of the Caribbean, has a remarkable history stretching back, on the one hand, to the Amero-Indians of 4,000BC and on the other to the apex of British imperialism.

I snatched my glasses back with one hand and tried to leave his jaw on the seat next to him.

A needle was taped into the back of one hand and attached to a clear plastic tube.

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