How to Use hand-to-hand in a Sentence

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• This was a problem on the first day because the district requires a hand-to-hand drop-off.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 15 Aug. 2023
• In each video, the suspect is immobilized and on the ground without hand-to-hand combat or the use of a firearm.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2024
• John has some solid brawls with the Covenant, including one hand-to-hand knife battle with an Elite.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• Learn more › Created in the 19th century by master knife maker Jim Bowie, the first bowie knives were built for hand-to-hand combat.
  — Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 19 July 2023
• The sequence features the things Wick fans would want: head shots, close-quarter hand-to-hand combat, blood spurts and bodies everywhere.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2023
• Glass is not afraid of lingering on an open wound or dragging out hand-to-hand combat to the most gruesome conclusions.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
• The teams participated in live-fire drills and hand-to-hand combat and learned how to handle roadside bombs, the biggest threat from Al-Shabaab.
  — Rupa Palla, NBC News, 9 July 2023
• Sawayama learned archery, knife-fighting and hand-to-hand combat for her kickass scenes, which were shot entirely at night over five weeks.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2023
• Secondly, these games offer so much more than hand-to-hand martial arts action.
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
• The fighting is so close-quartered that hand-to-hand combat is not uncommon, Ukrainian soldiers say.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 7 Mar. 2023
• At the same time across town, another agent is in the basement of a derelict church trying to disarm the reverend’s equally sadistic brother in hand-to-hand combat.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 19 Aug. 2023
• My experience with more fight sequences isn’t hand-to-hand fighting.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 May 2023
• Fights also include hand-to-hand combat, weaponry and sorcery.
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
• People are injured or die via explosions, poison, shooting, snake bites, hand-to-hand combat with weapons and more.
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• Davis engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy and had to fire a rifle with his pinkie finger after his hand was shattered by a grenade, according to the Army Times.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 3 Mar. 2023
• As the microphone went from hand-to-hand, children and adults cried out in frustration at Kentucky's gun laws and the ongoing need for better mental health resources.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 12 Apr. 2023
• In fact, anybody familiar with hand-to-hand combat or even anybody who has worked as a bouncer at a bar knows that a choke hold is a terrible way of restraining someone.
  — Alex Thomas, The New Republic, 9 June 2023
• The meeting’s minutes detail cases where patients have choked, punched and pulled their caregivers to the ground by their coats, even doing hand-to-hand combat with officers in the middle of busy emergency rooms.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2023
• Racks of obviously fake test tubes are relayed hand-to-hand when Tommy is being examined by doctors.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
• Boyega’s immediate response is to engage in hand-to-hand combat.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2023
• Fellow officers described hand-to-hand combat with rioters, as officers slipped in blood and vomit on the Capitol steps.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2023
• The efforts resemble hand-to-hand political combat in both public and private.
  — Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
• The team tried to nullify the tricks by actually completing the hand-to-hand transfers, instead of using misdirection.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2023
• The show will feature traditional circus acts, including trapeze, hand-to-hand, aerial straps, hand-to trapeze, juggling and hand balancing, all adapted to be performed on ice.
  — Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 4 Jan. 2024
• Sam Taylor—Netflix Erin’s knowledge of hand-to-hand combat isn’t just theoretical.
  — Time, 24 Aug. 2023
• Expect some sci-fi violence, including light saber battles, guns, explosions and hand-to-hand combat.
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• The camera regards the landscape from the sky in ethereal drone shots situating our characters in space, or gets down and dirty on the ground with chaotic handheld shots capturing close-up moments of hand-to-hand combat.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• Such deliberate, charming clumsiness matches the vibe of much of actual gameplay, with its stretches of low-stakes spitballing between bouts of hand-to-hand combat.
  — Ed Park, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
• Expect lots of comic book-style action violence, including stabbings, disintegrations, limb loss (with light blood) and hand-to-hand combat — and the fate of the universe is always in peril.
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• Another issue was that drivers either had to wait for parents to arrive at stops to retrieve their kindergartners, or those children needed to be taken back to their schools because the district requires a hand-to-hand drop-off.
  — Krista Johnson, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024