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by hand
Idioms and Phrases
With a hand or hands, manually (as opposed to a machine or some other means). For example, This letter was delivered by hand , or You can make these drawings by hand, but computer graphics are more efficient . [Mid-1500s]Example Sentences
To flush the toilet, launder clothing, wash dishes or bathe, residents were forces to haul water by hand from wells.
The demolition contractors say they will try to preserve the best stonework features by removing them by hand.
She looked at the Mann House’s gleaming white exterior, which had to be scrubbed down by hand after the fire.
Others have been forced to fill their washing machines by hand and are unable to run more than one tap at once.
In an era of life-or-death decisions made on six-inch screens, the paper’s suit makes the case that what politicians type with two thumbs is as durable as what they pen by hand.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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