left-handed
Example Sentences
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The left-handed batter struggled for form towards the end of last summer and hit just one half-century in 16 innings across all formats this winter.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
"And obviously, it goes without saying that we discuss, because there are two leftie openers, number three is left-handed."
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026
"We're coming back to conditions that were foreign a few weeks ago, we then got to know him over three games here," said the left-handed Bethell, who bats a number three.
From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026
It begins as a duet with Kermit, playing his left-handed banjo, and ends with Miss Piggy, who muscles her way in, anxious for screen time after her Aphrodite number is cut.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026
My paper might as well have been covered in the etchings of an alien language, written left-handed while standing on my head.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
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