Sentence examples for the longer hand from inspiring English sources

Find the longer hand, which will point to the minutes.

Use the longer hand to find individual minutes between numbers.

If you see no markers, make your best guess about where the longer hand is pointing.

Example 3: The shorter hand points directly at the 7, and the longer hand points 2 notches past the 2. The time is 7 12.

The shorter hand points toward the 6, and the longer hand points between the third and fourth markers to the right of 12.

So if the longer hand points between 12 and 1, at the third marker to the right of the thick 12 marker, then the minute is :03.

The sub-dial at 6 o'clock shows the date via a blued hand and the level of activity via the gilded, longer hand.

Inside, Eileen Rodriguez, the receptionist, said the firm could no longer hand out the list.

Since analog clocks use a traditional round clock face, you will need to adjust both the shorter hour hand and the longer minute hand to the correct time.

As part of the discharge, the doctors no longer handed out the leaflet with patient information, and the oral communication with the patient and the discharge letter sent to the general practitioner was considered sufficient.

If you make it the trump suit, to gain a sixth trick you must either take a ruff in the shorter trump hand or ruff three times in the longer trump hand, both of which are unlikely.