Sentence examples for call a hand from inspiring English sources

The Swedish referee Martin Hansson failed to call a hand ball.

So it was a bit rich to see Henry, the aging French striker, imploring the referee to call a hand ball against an opponent with the minutes ticking down on France's opening game, against Uruguay.

It was pioneered in Bangladesh by the Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus and spread across the world, attracting rave reviews as the key to giving the poor what Tony Blair used to call "a hand up, not a handout".

Employ it to hold something, and it is called a hand.

A bifacial cutting implement emerged, called a hand axe, that had longer, straighter, sharper edges than the earlier chopper.

An out is called a hand, a run is an ace, and any new player is given the nickname Muffin until the team assigns him a more permanent moniker.

Wine selling is very much a one-on-one business -- what the trade calls a "hand sell" -- and the men and women in East End wineries generally strive to provide courteous service.

Critical of the county's manual recount which she calls "a hand job"–she says the ballot was illegal and the county needs to hold another election.

Charity without respect can be called a hand out.

One such creation I ate was a hot and cold lump of rice and fish called a "hand grenade".

One of the gems she discovered was a book by Deborah Addington, called A Hand In the Bush - The Fine Art of Vaginal Fisting.