Sentence examples for hand on hip from inspiring English sources

"You're taking the bikes?" my wife, Robin, then asks, pausing with one hand on hip.

Robbins's tranquil waters are continually stirred up by Ms. Tharp's furious riptides until the two couples rise calmly to the surface, standing with one hand on hip and the other palm held out, as if to say "ta-da".

Always smile and grin, but most of all strike a standing pose like the 'Hand on Hip' or 'Hand's Behind Head' like you're relaxing.

Mr. Karsh was a portrait photographer who in 1941 took what became the most famous picture of Prime Minister Winston Churchill: the one where he stands, hand on hip, glaring at the lens — and the one that appears on Britain's 5-pound note.

"Lucy!" Ricky shouts, hand on hip.

Hand on hip, she likes what she sees.

Betty Woodman dresses a hand-on-hip chorus line of brilliantly glazed ceramic torsos in patterned fabrics from India.

On the red carpet, and later on stage, she stopped again and again to pose hand-on-hip with the bare leg jutting forward.

Preening hand-on-hip before the step-and-repeats — their images amplified and refracted by an infinity of style blogs — L.A.'s stars have become critical in building and maintaining a line's brand identity.

To watch Ms. Dombasle's sloppy, poorly sung concert at the Supper Club on Tuesday evening was to encounter a performer smugly content to express herself with perfunctory hand-on-hip wriggles, gaudy costume changes (from black to gold lamé to tan) and inane patter.

Sally, doing her best grown-up serious look for the guests (that hand-on-hip, cigarette-in-mouth pose outside was pure Betty); Peggy reminding herself to not get ripped off in her own living room by the handy hunk in dungarees ("You got a lot of books") and then smiling when she gets his number; Joan pretending she knew about Jim Cutler's cutthroat coup memo just to get one over on Don.