Example Sentences

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He threw TD passes underhanded, overhanded and shoveled one on Kansas City's three possessions in the first half.

From Fox News • Oct. 10, 2021

Mahomes tossed TD passes underhanded, overhanded and shoveled one on Kansas City’s three possessions in the first half.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 3, 2021

“This is something Errolson calls the ‘escape zip,’ ” Gibson said, indicating an unusual zipper along the jacket’s shoulder, and demonstrating how it could be used to enact an instantaneous, overhanded dejacketing.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 9, 2019

It has generally been accepted that pitching a baseball overhanded is unnatural, that the human arm is much better suited to the underhanded softball throw or the looping cricket delivery.

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2016

The two patched pieces are to be overhanded together.

From Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care by McGlauflin, Idabelle