How to Use hat in hand in a Sentence

hat in hand

adverb
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  • With his hat in hand, Mr. Silver then walked down the block.
    — Benjamin Weiser, New York Times, 11 May 2018
  • And having won their first game with defensive hat in hand, the Hoosiers see the sky as the limit.
    — Jeremy Price, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Last week, Cantrell came to Baton Rouge, hat in hand, to urge lawmakers to route more money to the city.
    — Sam Karlin, NOLA.com, 19 Oct. 2020
  • This is the second time in two years that Uber has come to the court hat in hand after a tussle with the regulator.
    — Ellen Milligan, Bloomberg.com, 16 Sep. 2020
  • So here are here, hat in hand, to ask a favor: Please stop trying to copy the president’s diet.
    — Ashwin Rodrigues, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2018
  • The Coyotes could go back to Glendale, hat in hand, and hammer out less-favorable terms.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2021
  • But that was only a snapshot, and the agency only got it by going hat in hand to a private system.
    — Sharon Lafraniere, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Sep. 2022
  • But that was only a snapshot, and the agency only got it by going hat in hand to a private system.
    — Sharon Lafraniere, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2022
  • In 2009, the darkest hour, the company went hat in hand to a Mexican billionaire.
    — Karl Vick, Time, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Russia would have less leverage over the rest of the world, and the White House wouldn't have to go hat in hand to monarchies whose rule is propped up by their petroleum reserves.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Year after year, the district has gone, hat in hand, to Council, asking it to fill a looming budget gap caused by a structural deficit.
    — Philly.com, 9 May 2018
  • City officials hit up foundations and private donors for weeks, hat in hand.
    — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 26 Sep. 2020
  • One such scene that resonates with our pandemic moment is when Willy goes hat in hand to his employer.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020
  • The giant that is Porsche Motorsports—from Le Mans prototypes to club racers—is smaller now, standing at the edge of the unknown, hat in hand.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 17 June 2021
  • When studios were the only game in town, directors went to them hat in hand, knowing that, with large budgets at stake, their films had to be commercial.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2019
  • By the time Heather arrives at Ramona’s house with her Breakfast at Tiffany’s costume and hat in hand, she’s already been shunted off to the basement and is on the outs with everyone.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 25 May 2021
  • There’s this old narrative of entrepreneurs going hat in hand begging VCs for money.
    — Tomio Geron, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2017
  • As The Sun reports, Markle was forced to keep her hat in hand for the entire match, rather than using it to block out the blazing London sun, in order to abide by royal protocol.
    — Andrea Park, Allure, 16 July 2018
  • As part of the announcement, Kunakey shared a snap of herself posing naked on the beach complete with a megawatt smile, salty strands, and a bare bump peeking out from beneath the supersized straw hat in hand.
    — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2019
  • Having to go to the Copyright Office every three years, hat in hand, to ask for permission to simply fix our stuff is infuriating.
    — Kyle Wiens, Wired, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The past two weeks have seen a parade of journalists and E.A. luminaries coming forward, hat in hand, to apologize and reflect.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2022
  • More aspiring entrepreneurs come hat in hand as the competition returns.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The shift broadly expanded Albany’s role in housing policy, which is why city officials go hat in hand to Albany every few years for permission to extend controls.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
  • In the absence of a more permanent fix, Daugherty has come hat in hand to the Ways and Means Committee, which is already demanding monthly reports from him detailing the agency’s current financial condition.
    — oregonlive, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Rouse was coming, hat in hand, to the station's majority Black audience to plead forgiveness after a social media firestorm and calls to boycott his multistate supermarket chain erupted around his actions.
    — Jessica Williams | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 3 Feb. 2021

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