hand-carry
Americanverb (used with object)
Example Sentences
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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 Ruppelt, Edward J.
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