How to Use palm in a Sentence

palm

1 of 2 noun

• The beauty of the universe could be in the palm of your hand.
  — Kyle Thomas, Peoplemag, 5 May 2024
• Gently hold the fruit in the palm of your hand with your thumb near the stem.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Aug. 2023
• Hand and foot sweat: This is sweat on the palms of your hands and soles of your feet.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 25 Nov. 2023
• Using your palm, press down on the dough to even it out.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2024
• She’s got the power to tweet, and reach every ear, in the palm of her hands.
  — Meghana Indurti, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2024
• Using the palm of your hand, press down on the dough to make a rough circle.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2024
• Sometimes, the skin may thicken on the palms, soles, or both.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health, 27 July 2023
• The palms of the gloves are textured to provide more grip for greasy or oily food items.
  — Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2023
• Roll each portion gently in the palms of your hands to form ¾-inch balls.
  — Yi Jun Loh, Saveur, 8 Feb. 2024
• Press on the fatty part of your palm and feel its firmness.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2023
• In some children, the rash spreads down the body, but the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet are often not affected.
  — Parents Editors, Parents, 3 Sep. 2023
• The attachment was a picture of two shiny bullets in the palm of a hand.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2023
• At the top of the curl, rotate wrists inward so palms face forward.
  — Women's Health, 7 June 2023
• Skip the cotton pad with this one — pump the airy foam right into your palms and pat it on your skin.
  — Liana Schaffner, Allure, 21 Sep. 2023
• Armed with a fantastic backing band, the singer had the crowd eating out of the palm of her hand.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 8 May 2023
• To apply, warm about two to three drops of oil in your palms and pat lightly over your face.
  — Sarah Y. Wu, Glamour, 8 Mar. 2024
• The palm plug attaches sensors to all five of your fingers and the palm of your hands.
  — Michael Calore, WIRED, 11 Jan. 2024
• At a bush of vermillion chilies, which are among the hottest in the world, Lin plucked one, snapped it open, and placed it in my palm.
  — Clarissa Wei, The New Yorker, 16 June 2023
• Twist your wrists outward so that your palms face the ceiling at the halfway point.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 31 May 2023
• Send any news, comments, pizza tests, and British palms to [e-mail].
  — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2024
• Place your palms flat on the floor, your feet hip-width apart, and your elbows shoulder-width apart.
  — Anne Harding, Health, 19 Jan. 2024
• There’s a mix of boxwoods, palms and white stones at the front of the home, as well as a geometric pathway.
  — Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
• Then look more closely at the underarms, forearms, palms, legs, between the toes and at the soles of the feet.
  — Mira Cheng, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
• In her palm is a burst of intricate flowers that look a lot like lace.
  — Alice Newell-Hanson, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• Press through right palm and left foot to lift hips into air, keeping right leg straight.
  — Women's Health, 18 Aug. 2023
• For Tom has a shady past and a mysterious stab wound on his palm.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 26 Sep. 2023
• All the fingers share one big pivot point at the palm of the hand, and there's a knuckle joint halfway up the finger.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2024
• Sometimes, Betts would flip his palm forward and try to scoop the ball on the opposite side of his body.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2024
• How to do the exercise: Lie down with your arms at your sides, palms facing down.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 14 Sep. 2023
• Reach up and grip it with both hands, palms facing away forward and hands shoulder-width apart.
  — Ashley Mateo, Health, 6 May 2024

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palm

2 of 2 verb

• To do the card trick, you have to learn to palm one of the cards.
• He was called for palming the ball.
• The kick was palmed away by the goalkeeper.
• The store's owner had seen one of the girls palm a lipstick before heading for the door.
• Hold a melon in one hand, palm up on the bottom of the melon.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2020
• The gesture is a hand up, palm out, with the thumb tucked, then folding the fingers down.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2021
• Yimmi Chara in the 54th minute had one from inside the box that goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa had to palm over the bar.
  — Caitlin Murray, oregonlive, 6 May 2021
• When he was stopped, Harris tried to palm the gun off on a colleague, who sensibly declined the gift.
  — Gail Collins New York Times, Star Tribune, 25 Feb. 2021
• In the 63rd minute, Pochettino fired a rocket from just outside the box toward the far post, and Clark had to dive at full stretch to palm it wide of net.
  — Caitlin Murray, oregonlive, 1 July 2021
• While there are still some round-bodied reels on the market, most of today’s offerings have a low profile which allows them to be palmed.
  — Pete Robbins, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• However, Smith read forward Christine Sinclair’s ensuing penalty attempt and dove to her right to palm the ball to safety.
  — Kyle Pinnell | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 21 June 2021
• An appropriate serving technique is to palm a tortilla and use it to pluck and air-lift-off a crispy pane of sumptuous pork, unleashing the sunlit juices into the valleys of the tortilla.
  — Nick Rallo, Dallas News, 20 Oct. 2020
• To do the card trick, you have to learn to palm one of the cards.
• He was called for palming the ball.
• The kick was palmed away by the goalkeeper.
• The store's owner had seen one of the girls palm a lipstick before heading for the door.
• Hold a melon in one hand, palm up on the bottom of the melon.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2020
• The gesture is a hand up, palm out, with the thumb tucked, then folding the fingers down.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2021
• Yimmi Chara in the 54th minute had one from inside the box that goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa had to palm over the bar.
  — Caitlin Murray, oregonlive, 6 May 2021
• When he was stopped, Harris tried to palm the gun off on a colleague, who sensibly declined the gift.
  — Gail Collins New York Times, Star Tribune, 25 Feb. 2021
• In the 63rd minute, Pochettino fired a rocket from just outside the box toward the far post, and Clark had to dive at full stretch to palm it wide of net.
  — Caitlin Murray, oregonlive, 1 July 2021
• While there are still some round-bodied reels on the market, most of today’s offerings have a low profile which allows them to be palmed.
  — Pete Robbins, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• However, Smith read forward Christine Sinclair’s ensuing penalty attempt and dove to her right to palm the ball to safety.
  — Kyle Pinnell | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 21 June 2021
• An appropriate serving technique is to palm a tortilla and use it to pluck and air-lift-off a crispy pane of sumptuous pork, unleashing the sunlit juices into the valleys of the tortilla.
  — Nick Rallo, Dallas News, 20 Oct. 2020
• To do the card trick, you have to learn to palm one of the cards.
• He was called for palming the ball.
• The kick was palmed away by the goalkeeper.
• The store's owner had seen one of the girls palm a lipstick before heading for the door.
• Hold a melon in one hand, palm up on the bottom of the melon.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2020
• The gesture is a hand up, palm out, with the thumb tucked, then folding the fingers down.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024