Example Sentences

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While he cannot write script, he prints left-handedly.

From Time Magazine Archive

I shook my head and squeezed his hand imploringly, while he, holding me tight in one sinewy arm, plucked left-handedly at the knot.

From Helmet of Navarre by Runkle, Bertha

Thus he left-handedly concluded his remarks, and murmuring under his breath, "Bless my soul," as if in final protest against everything without precedent, folded his fat hands over his expansive waist-band.

From The Mutineers by Hawes, Charles Boardman

George Sand came, honestly, if left-handedly, by her cardiac prowess.

From Superwomen by Terhune, Albert Payson

Then he noticed the crumpled note which, aimed left-handedly, had missed the waste basket earlier, when he opened his mail, and he went over and picked it up.

From The Rim of the Desert by Anderson, Ada Woodruff