Sentence examples for hand over hand from inspiring English sources

I went hand over hand.

He climbed methodically, hand over hand, high on his calves.

"Hand over hand, like you were fighting a trout".

He tested the rope with all his weight, then pulled himself up, hand over hand.

Their action is similar to pulling in a rope hand over hand.

The lines will be hauled up hand over hand with their catch, huge yellowfin tuna.

Kinesin and dynein/dynactin motors are powered by microtubule-dependent mechanisms, whereas myosin motor proteins move their cargoes by a "hand-over hand" mechanism along actin filaments [1].

If he was going hand-over-hand on the monkey bars, he would pause without falling.

A hand-over-hand struggle up a rocky path to a vantage point?

Helen Lin, the soloist, dexterously grappled with contrasting meters and hand-over-hand legerdemain, chorused by strings and two percussionists.

"You just use the hoe as a steadying piece to pull yourself up hand-over-hand," he explained.