hand onto
Example Sentences
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Volunteers have been working since October creating new 15-foot strings of lights and hanging them by hand onto the trees along the nearly one-mile route.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2025
Before the shipping container, freight of every variety had to be loaded by hand onto ships and rail cars and trucks — a messy process that was slow, dangerous and expensive.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2022
The deputy avoids a direct hit after pushing his hand onto the moving car’s hood and quickly moving aside.
From Seattle Times • May 22, 2021
From the woods, the giant fir is loaded by hand onto a trailer, put up and decorated with lights and a star.
From BBC • Dec. 2, 2018
The Reich League of German Officials gave Hitler a copy of Mein Kampf that had been transcribed by hand onto parchment in a medieval script.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
