Sentence examples for handed from inspiring English sources
The word 'handed' is correct and is used in written English
You can use it as an adjective to describe a person who is adept at a particular activity or subject. For example, "He was a highly-skilled piano player; he had a deft, handed touch when playing the keys."
Worth 8m kronor each, the Nobel prizes are always handed out on 10 December, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel's death in 1896.
In a letter handed out by activists to managers at each Shell station, John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, wrote: "28 activists and two journalists remain in detention after the seizure of our ship Arctic Sunrise by armed Russian Federal Security Bureau agents.
But after discovering a number of commonwealth laws may have been breached, the investigation has been handed over to the Australian federal police.
Morgan replaced him but this campaign got off to a disastrous start with heavy defeats handed out by Australia in Melbourne and New Zealand in Wellington, a match that lasted around half the allotted overs in total, before the first win was gained against Scotland in Christchurch.
The former Ukip candidate also claims that the new Conservative MP, whom he has known for about 30 years, handed him a leaflet template attacking Labour's record on immigration that he recommended Rose distribute in the areas of the constituency he highlighted as being home to potential Labour/Ukip swing voters.
When we left, Kevin the barman handed me a package.
The Real Madrid coach, Carlo Ancelotti, has backed both Gareth Bale and the rest of his side to hit top form again "very soon" as they try to avoid ending the season empty-handed.
The Central Americans displayed a sounder structure, with the wing-backs helping the three centre-backs and the midfield providing protection too, and Mora suggested that he bore no ill-effects from his torment in Elche by producing a phenomenal one-handed save to deny Erin Vandenbergh early on.
Brannan is for dead Gerard Butler, Sutro is for heavy-handed homoeroticism, Amaro is for cats and dinners.
But while rural dwellers in particular chafe at restrictions and heavy-handed enforcement – which has included forced abortions – many in cities are used to the policy and seem largely indifferent, or like the idea of increasing their families but worry about the financial impact.
We're preparing for them to come in in quite a heavy-handed way.
