by hand
Example Sentences
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The season is open now with a limit of 30 per person; you can only catch them by hand and anyone over 16 needs to have a fishing license.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Pans heave with labor-intensive dishes like çalkama, a Turkish pastry, and yaprak sarma, grapevine leaves filled by hand with a mixture of rice, onions, tomatoes and herbs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Krispy Kreme now does 15 to 20 special runs of doughnuts a year, plus a collection for each season, with staff decorating them by hand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Many residents in La Guaira said neighbors, family members, and volunteers were the first to remove rubble and search for people by hand.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
I was wearing a newly altered, totally revamped military-style jacket with epaulets and brass buttons, and I’d embroidered the back, by hand; it read, in a loose script, people are strange.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
