hand-deliver
Americanverb (used with object)
Example Sentences
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When a signed copy of my first book got lost in the Salvadoran postal system, I joked I’d hand-deliver it.
From Slate • Apr. 12, 2026
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
Maybe that’s not something that they wouldn’t normally hand-deliver.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2023
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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