Sentence examples for one fist from inspiring English sources

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— The police chief here likes to say that he can count the number of homicides in 2008 on one fist, because there were none.

A young woman named Tequila in a 1978 painting has a look all her own: in loose, bright-red below-the-knee shorts, canvas basketball sneakers, striped athletic socks, a wide-collared sailor shirt, denim jacket and a long-billed cap, she poses with one fist on her hip, a cigarette in her other hand and an amused, slightly skeptical expression.

There was no doorbell, only a taped-on note that said, absurdly, "Knock three times," so he hammered with one fist, then both.

One fist is hammering the coffee table.

The figure clenches one fist and brandishes a small phallic club in the other.

In one fist he holds a limp, freshly skinned rabbit carcass.

When he finished the race, Phelps immediately spotted the clock and shook one fist in the air.

When he finally hit a 3-pointer that gave the Nets a 2-point lead in the fourth quarter, Scalabrine ran down the court with one fist raised.

As he left the room, Mr. Him Huy said, Duch looked back and raised one fist, as if to say, "I'm O.K.

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And they should never be held tightly grasped in one's fist.

A deranged Estonian pianist smacked his keyboard with one raised fist, like a butcher flattening an escalope of veal.

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