Sentence examples for hand of something from inspiring English sources

Idiom

Wash your hands of something.

If you wash your hands of something, you disassociate yourself and accept no responsibility for what will happen.

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I think since I was a child, I was aware that I needed to hold on to the hand of something that is very tangible.

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"I've been stroked," he says, verbally seizing the tragedy and putting his fate in the hands of something greater than himself".

For there cannot be many who really believe that Goodwin's final humiliation was at the hands of something called the honours forfeiture committee.

It is true that in Hong Kong we were starved of fresh air and space, but there were other aspects of life that I had missed seemed a lot less reassuring -- freedom of press, freedom of space, and knowing perhaps deep inside that Hong Kong's fate was in the hands of something greater, Mainland China.

Whatever their situation, whether they live in carefully distressed boho townhouses in Holland Park, or iron-topped wooden shacks in the slums of Nairobi, homeopathy's customers all share one common trait: they're putting their bodily ailments in the hands of something that's been repeatedly proved as ineffective.

I documented every exhibition that Diana Vreeland did at the Met, but every picture is of her hand on something.

Make a fake hand out of something that's strong that the dog won't demolish, but also kind of soft so it doesn't crack his/her teeth.

Any time you can get your hands on something of value for free that you don't need, take it and sell it.

Blue Songs often sounds third-hand: pastiches of something that was a homage to begin with.

And yet, with this homespun treasure, Chomet proves there is still a place for old-school sleight of hand; for something rare and exotic, majestic and melancholy.

When Lisa removes her hand from the stove because she feels pain, therefore, she removes her hand in virtue of something that is partly characterized by a trope which is such that it belongs to a class of mentally similar tropes.

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