hand-carry
Example Sentences
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Owners manage to get some spare parts through “mules,” people who hand-carry goods into the island, but sometimes they must have parts made by hand.
From Seattle Times
An unprecedented security lockdown amid a near-total communications blackout entered a fourth day Thursday, forcing some news organizations to hand-carry dispatches out of the region.
From Seattle Times
"Workers employed by Dowless were required to hand-carry the ballots to Dowless in order to be paid," the report said.
From Fox News
Researchers in the field ship or hand-carry the bones to Harvard, where clean-suited technicians expose them to ultraviolet light to prevent contamination, then bore holes in them with dental drills.
From New York Times
Instead, the hapless shellfish could find themselves shipped to Dunkirk in France and subject to “sanitary inspections,” a regime that often requires a government veterinarian to open the load, take a sniff, pull a sample and hand-carry it to a laboratory to check bacteria under a microscope.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
