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right hand

noun as in right-hand man

noun as in right-hand man

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During the airing of the new security camera footage, Cassidy was clearly troubled, his right hand alternating between his temple and his mouth.

It then takes half a second — maybe less — for the grounder to travel into his glove, between his legs and to his right hand before he flicks the ball to a second baseman off-screen.

At one point, the warrant says, he moves the cup from his left hand to his right hand.

The rear and front brake controls are in their usual spots—engaged using your right foot, and right hand, respectively.

In his right hand is a longbow with the word “Persistence” burned into the riser.

He was holding up a paper as a woman approached with a child on her left hip, pushing an empty stroller with her right hand.

Or this: the right-hand side of the body is more honorable and therefore hotter than the left.

But the accent is just as clearly Trinidadian as he cracks jokes about a severed head he holds by the hair in his right hand.

He holds up his right hand—“A short chop right above the bridge of the nose”—and gives up a laugh.

The trooper reached with her right hand for her expandable baton.

She is quite true, but not wise, and your left hand must not know what your right hand is doing.

During this conversation Harry's right hand was resting beneath his jacket, grasping the butt of his revolver.

In fact a spot of blood, slightly larger than that which had appeared before, showed plainly upon the Professor's right hand.

In fact, on the Professor's right hand there showed a drop of blood, perceptibly larger this time than before.

MacRae's heels clicked together and his right hand went up in the stiff military salute.

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On this page you'll find 69 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to right-hand, such as: crucial, fundamental, imperative, indispensable, important, and main.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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