hand-deliver
Americanverb (used with object)
Example Sentences
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Its reporters, editors and coordinators personally hand-deliver 30,000 quarterly print editions to local libraries, restaurants and community centers.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2024
Meadows dashed to the Justice Department just minutes before President Joe Biden was inaugurated to hand-deliver a redacted copy of the binder for final review.
From Salon • Dec. 15, 2023
For larger or multidimensional cards, it’s easiest of course to hand-deliver or enclose them in a gift box.
From Washington Times • Dec. 7, 2022
To hand-deliver them, Patel mailed his filings to someone in Florida whom he hired online through the app TaskRabbit to file the documents with a clerk in the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach.
From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2022
There had been no time to mail it, so its sender, First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, had used the president’s messenger to hand-deliver it to the owners of Ford’s Theatre.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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