How to Use by hand in a Sentence

by hand

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  • Today, Ollinger and his team harvest nearly all their grapes by hand.
    — Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2026
  • Patterns are draped, drafted and developed on the body, with guidelines basted by hand.
    — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 2 July 2026
  • Evenly distribute seeds with a spreader or by hand to ensure even coverage.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 5 July 2026
  • Dave stopped doing calculations by hand and quit hunt-and-peck typing in 1987.
    — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 29 June 2026
  • Before 2023, a new grad could spend two years writing code by hand before managing one or two people.
    — Neo Lee, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • To get rid of pests, remove them with a strong spray of water from the garden hose, treat with neem oil or insecticidal soap, or remove the pests by hand.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 3 July 2026
  • While a lot of animation today is computer-generated, there was a time when it was all crafted by hand.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 1 July 2026
  • The curtain and liner can then be washed by hand or on the gentle cycle in the washer with cold water and your regular laundry detergent.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 28 June 2026
  • And delicate fabrics should only be washed on the (aptly named) delicate cycle or by hand if the care label recommends it.
    — Jamie Cuccinelli, Martha Stewart, 5 July 2026
  • If traditional practice requires garments to be assessed by hand, Fleek Sort just needs a picture.
    — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 9 July 2026
  • Unlike straw or lower-grade wool blends, beaver felt can be reworked without collapsing its structure, which is what allows hats to be reshaped by hand rather than stamped out of a mold.
    — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 July 2026
  • They are affixed to the inky blue background, yet its maker(s), who apparently stitched each luminary on by hand, failed to catch all the edges on many of the stars – leaving another clue.
    — Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 4 July 2026
  • For example, growers painstakingly cover individual grape bunches with bags by hand to protect them from rain.
    — Akiko Katayama, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • The second involved filling a salad spinner with water and immersing the berries for one minute while stirring them by hand before draining and spinning them for 10 seconds.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 7 July 2026
  • Many monasteries included a scriptorium, a dedicated writing room where books were meticulously copied by hand.
    — Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
  • His lament mirrored the anguish of legions of Venezuelans who endured harrowing days clearing rubble by hand before crews with heavy equipment and rescue dogs belatedly arrived.
    — Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
  • The idea for the exterior dressing of this specific car was to bring the intersection of those surfaces to the fore with the juxtaposition of black lines—first taped off by hand—to provide the abstract zebra-like pattern.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 30 June 2026
  • Every individual tea leaf grown at Wild Orchard is plucked by hand, totaling about 100 kilograms per day during peak harvest season.
    — Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • On Friday, someone reopens the dashboards, reallocates budget by hand in 20-minute increments stolen between meetings and writes a learning into a doc that may or may not get reused.
    — Marvin Abdel-Massih, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • The enhancement suite removes crosstalk, denoises and balances voice levels across speakers within seconds rather than the hours a human audio engineer would typically spend working soundboard faders by hand.
    — Damion Taylor, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • Garments are still assessed by hand, graded using inconsistent standards and traded through disconnected networks with little pricing transparency, the company said.
    — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 9 July 2026
  • In fact, plenty of Feudo Montoni’s vines were even grafted by hand from ancient mother plants that still grow on the property—a quiet reminder that preserving history here isn't marketing copy but daily work.
    — Emily Cappiello, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • With production capped at 80 units in total, final assembly of each 21C is performed largely by hand at Czinger’s Area 21 facility in Torrance, California.
    — Bradley Iger, ArsTechnica, 6 July 2026

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