Sentence examples for hand is pressed from inspiring English sources

One hand is pressed against his chest.

When an individual presses the back of the hand against the mouth, the forearm is pronated, or twisted; when the palm of the hand is pressed against the mouth, the forearm is supinated, or untwisted.

These are "negative imprints" of real hands, achieved by spitting or blowing paint around and between the fingers while the hand is pressed, palm up or down, to the wall surface.

What is at hand is pressed into service: an espresso pot, for example, as the spaceship in a homage to the pioneering filmmaker Georges Méliès and his 1902 film "A Trip to the Moon".

His left hand was pressed flat above her shoulder blades, just below her neck, levering her head against his.

The cuticles (or sometimes the space on the fingernail just above the cuticles) of the left hand are pressed against the strings to sound specific pitches.

CORAL GABLES, Fla., Sept. 30 - President Bush's expression was sad and maybe a bit annoyed, and one hand was pressed firmly over his stomach.

Next, his hand was pressed against mine and money was being thrust into it.

His eyes are closed; his hands are pressed between his knees: his breasts sag and he wears a stomach brace.

Their hands were pressed to the glass like visors as they talked excitedly about what they saw inside, as if something marvellous were moving through the aisles.

The window seat is occupied by a fat woman wearing a gray sweatshirt that says "Hawaii" in knobby grapefruit-colored letters, her fingernails painted to match, which Charity can see clearly, because the woman's hands are pressed together in front of her.