His hand shielding his face reduces him to just his lips.
He stood and looked up at the sky with his hand shielding his goggled eyes from the sun.
I slump in my seat, my hand shielding my eyes as if I were enduring a horror-flick dismemberment.
But all the damage he did was with his right hand, shielding his left arm from the carnage.
On the one hand, shielding parent companies from the liabilities arising from risky projects can encourage experimentation and foster economic growth.
Floret Ferguson sat at the kitchen table, a hand shielding her eyes and a kaleidoscope of yellow, white and blue papers spread out before her.
She scoured the sky, and when she saw nothing, she looked at the distant mountains, her hand shielding her eyes like a visor.
In UN meetings, I sit as far back as I can, with my head down and my hand shielding my eyes, as if I'm thinking hard or examining the agenda.
With a jaunty cane, trilby, striped shirt and a hand shielding his eyes against the bright lights, Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira looked as self-possessed at the Cannes film festival as any elegant Hollywood star.
I wanted to ask her how she was doing, but when I saw her lying there, with her hand shielding her eyes, I said instead, in a thick voice, "You were very brave".
When Binyam Mohamed set foot last week onto British soil after seven excruciating years of imprisonment in Pakistan, Morocco and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, he left the airport with his hand shielding his eyes, obscuring the rest of his features as well.
