hand-carry
Americanverb (used with object)
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Israeli and U.N. officials hand-carry cash over the border to Gaza.
From Reuters ● Oct. 13, 2023
There is now no place in the country to read Paps, and biopsies are given to someone flying to Ethiopia to hand-carry to a hospital there.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2019
When I was based in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War, in the nineteen-eighties, she found people to hand-carry mail into a country that frequently lacked a functioning postal system.
From The New Yorker ● May 11, 2019
Even after international financial sanctions were imposed on North Korea, Ro said, he would hand-carry $1 million a month on flights back to Pyongyang.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2018
When he found out that these people had already contacted us and had prepared a report for us, he offered to hand-carry it to Wright-Patterson.
From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt
Vehicles and people produce thermal energy detectable with infrared scopes hand-carried by soldiers and mounted on some drones and vehicles.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2022
Bogo hand-carried them to the Colombian singer’s New York apartment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2022
Gradually, 33 tons of hand-carried rocks coalesce into a wall about knee high and nearly 200 feet long.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 3, 2022
She wanted simple elegance, from her planned chignon hairstyle and simple jewelry to the shoes she hand-carried from the Upper West Side.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 16, 2019
Hand pumping into hand-carried buckets is impractical and extremely tedious.
From Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway by Steve Solomon
Billy, hand-carrying finished suits, had been on his way to Heathrow Airport and thence to overseas clients when he was attacked on the train.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Each person had a specific task, from hand-carrying the ignition devices into the EU, to supplying cars.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026
I photographed him hand-carrying this precious cargo back to his country.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2014
“But the world of cold wars is one of blockades on the high seas, airlifts into West Berlin, secret intermediaries hand-carrying letters from the White House to the Kremlin.”
From Washington Times ● Jul. 30, 2014
Weiss himself was on the ground in Aceh three days after the waves struck, hand-carrying health kits.
From Time Magazine Archive
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