Double-handed
"Double-handed" in a Sentence (10 examples)
Then these are your instructions, and I beg, my dear Watson, that you will obey them to the letter, for you are now playing a double-handed game with me against the cleverest rogue and the most powerful syndicate of criminals in Europe.
With this double-handed frontal horizontal grip the child is held in secure prone position so that its legs can move freely.
Usually 2–3.5 metres in length, double-handed spinning rods are ideal for tackling slightly larger fish, including tailor, salmon (hahawai), trevally, flathead, snapper, barramundi, and Murray cod.
The double-handed conversation had started to resemble a vaudeville act.
A “double-handed” strategy is called for, where the authorities show a readiness to intervene in the short run to support the economy should it flag again, while at the same time providing economic agents with a sense of long-term direction and governance to re-establish confidence.
Duchamp played a double-handed game, on one hand a public strategy on the other a clandestine commitment.
Ibrahim, who entertains suspicions of this double-handed policy, compromises the Prince by every means in his power.
While the idea of a “special post” reflects, as we have seen earlier, the double-handed way in which female professional labor was capitalized upon by the state, it also shows how the colonial bureaucracy used the vector of work to normalize a certain congruity between gender and citizenship.
Holding his stick double-handed, the man swung it around mid-height towards Henry's already bruised rib cage.
I could see it the first time I met her, the way she peered at Carlo, whom she had just met. and at the gala the other night, the way she fell into Adrian Franklin and then double-handed his hand when he helped her up.
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