How to Use hands-on in a Sentence

hands-on

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• Soups and stews don’t require a large amount of hands-on time.
  — Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 6 Jan. 2024
• How hands-on were Hit-Boy and Alchemist with you in that regard?
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2024
• Dales was the hands-on detail man who checked the contract language line by line.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2023
• Like his own dad was with him, Luke is excited to be a hands-on father.
  — Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 6 Jan. 2024
• The grip handle is great for saving hands-on heavier jobs.
  — Brittany Vincent, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2023
• Discovery and Iger of Disney — have taken a hands-on role over the last six weeks.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 8 Nov. 2023
• Bourne was known as a hands-on leader, who often worked nights and weekends.
  — Stephen Hobbs, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2024
• The friends want readers to feel this kind of hands-on help in the pages of their new cookbook, which is available for pre-order now.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 13 Feb. 2024
• This simple roasted recipe is delicious, and just takes a short amount of hands-on prep time.
  — Jasmine Smith, Southern Living, 30 July 2023
• Mint, sweet tea, lemon, bourbon, and crushed ice make a pitcher-perfect drink that takes 10 minutes of hands-on time.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 28 Mar. 2024
• Bring your gloves and pruners to a hands-on, no-charge pruning workshop with experts from the San Diego Rose Society.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2024
• These cookies require a few steps, but only 20 minutes of hands-on time.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 10 Nov. 2023
• Wilson has been a hands-on father for Future, which has been a wonderful thing to see.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 15 Sep. 2023
• About 200 fans got word of Wilson’s hands-on approach to tour promotion and showed up to make purchases and chat with the artist.
  — Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2023
• Homemade ice cream comes together without a whole lot of hands-on time.
  — Ashia Aubourg, SELF, 22 June 2023
• Your slow cooker helps slash hands-on time to make this recipe incredibly easy.
  — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 11 Aug. 2023
• Best for: People trying to curb their spending who want to be hands-on with their budgeting.
  — Kevin J. Ryan, wsj.com, 29 Dec. 2023
• Perry says that Queen Elizabeth was a very hands-on owner.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2023
• The full-scale invasion by Russia last year swept him toward more hands-on activism.
  — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• The hands-on assignment opened the seventh-graders’ eyes and, eventually, hearts.
  — Boaz Dvir, TIME, 6 May 2024
• This easy side dish only takes 10 minutes of hands-on time and six ingredients.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 24 Oct. 2023
• Renewables like wind and solar are not as hands-on as coal processing, and can't offer up the same number of jobs.
  — Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
• For something a little more hands-on, this Lego flower bouquet would make a great gift for crafty people and plant parents alike.
  — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2023
• Part of that audit is a hands-on tutorial on how to operate the controller.
  — Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
• More importantly, the Ioniq 5 N ably recycles the hands-on thrills that have gone missing in many EVs.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Apr. 2024
• With only six ingredients and five minutes of hands-on time, this dessert can be ready when needed.
  — Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 12 June 2023
• The set comes with VR goggles, an 80-page book filled with immersive activities and supplies for hands-on projects to do at home.
  — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 11 Aug. 2023
• This chicken pasta dish requires very little hands-on time.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 3 Jan. 2024
• My daughters are adult women now, so my hands-on brushing and braiding days are over, but last week the memories came flooding back.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2023
• The process took four years, with the brothers regularly flying over from Switzerland to provide hands-on advice.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 10 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024