How to Use overhand in a Sentence

overhand

1 of 2 adjective
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  • Tyler Joe Hold the top end of the barbell at your chest with an overhand grip.
    — Milo F. Bryant, Men's Health, 18 Nov. 2022
  • If the weight is heavy for you, hold it with both hands, using an overhand grip with the right.
    — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 21 Nov. 2020
  • Grip the bar with an overhand grip with your inside hand.
    — David Otey, Men's Health, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Bend at your hips and grab the bar with an overhand grip, your hands shoulder-width apart.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Garcia scored all night with a sharp overhand right of his own.
    — John Whisler, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Mar. 2018
  • Hold dumbbells in front of your thighs with an overhand grip.
    — Men's Health, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Lie faceup on the bench and grab the bar with an overhand grip just wider than shoulder-width.
    — Greg Presto, Men's Health, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Jumeau lands an overhand right and then a hard hook that staggers Abe a little.
    — Todd Martin, latimes.com, 10 Feb. 2018
  • Alves appears to stun Aliev a little with a wild overhand punch late.
    — Todd Martin, latimes.com, 13 May 2018
  • Lopez rushed forward with an overhand right to the officer's head and the two soon were entwined.
    — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The most common throwing method is the overhand technique.
    — Popular Science, 15 June 2020
  • How Start with an overhand grip, band out in front in line with the shoulders, elbows soft and pointing straight ahead.
    — Ben Walker, Outside Online, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Keeping your back flat, chest high, knees soft, and weight in your heels, hinge forward from the waist to grasp both sides of the bar with an overhand grip, palms facing the body.
    — Ashley Oerman, Cosmopolitan, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Stand holding a dumbbell or kettlebell in front of you with your right hand with an overhand grip.
    — Greg Presto, Men's Health, 26 May 2022
  • Compressed air is available inside the studio and outside in the overhand area.
    — Margaret Demarino, courant.com, 6 July 2017
  • But with less than 10 seconds remaining in the first, Masvidal landed an overhand right hand that shocked Cerrone to the mat.
    — Nick Groke, The Denver Post, 28 Jan. 2017
  • Romanian Deadlift Stand tall, with your feet hip width apart, and hold a dumbbell in each hand with an overhand grip in front of your hips.
    — K. Aleisha Fetters, Outside Online, 19 June 2019
  • Costa hurts Hall with an overhand right, but Hall recovers well.
    — Todd Martin, latimes.com, 8 July 2018
  • Using an overhand grip that’s just beyond shoulder width, hold the bar above your sternum, keeping your arms straight.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Start out by trying a two-arm hang, using an overhand grip that's slightly outside your shoulder width.
    — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Pull-ups, which require you to hang on to a bar using an overhand grip, and, drawing your elbows in toward your rib cage, raise your chin over the bar, are simple — but not easy.
    — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Moments later, Machida landed the perfect overhand right that sent Ocampo down and out.
    — Damian Calhoun, Orange County Register, 21 Jan. 2017
  • Duquesnoy connects with an overhand right a little while later.
    — Todd Martin, latimes.com, 7 Oct. 2017
  • With this movement, and all pulling movements, having a solid grip (either overhand or underhand) is key.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Muhammad utilizes a solid overhand right but is thrown off when attempting a takedown.
    — Todd Martin, latimes.com, 8 July 2017
  • The National League — the American League did not exist quite yet — wanted to curb the growing influence of overhand pitching.
    — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Hitters are unaccustomed to seeing fastballs thrown with an overhand delivery so low to the ground.
    — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 19 June 2017
  • How to do it: Holding a bare barbell bar with an overhand grip, stand with your feet shoulders-width apart and an actual (or imagined) bench or box directly behind you.
    — Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Albarado used the crop in the overhand position instead of the underhanded position.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2021
  • And Sam Shewmaker, another heavyweight, sent the audience into a frenzy with his only punch — an overhand right that dropped burly Eric Prindle just 18 seconds into the fight.
    — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 4 June 2018
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overhand

2 of 2 noun
  • Bend at the knees and hinge at the hips and grab the weight an overhand grip.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 21 June 2023
  • How to Do It: Grab the bar with a strong overhand grip.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 13 July 2023
  • Thrown overhand, the ball came in high, then dove for a strike.
    — Rich Cohen, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The first cut was the result of an overhand left from Wallin late in the third.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2019
  • How to Do It: Grab the pullup bar with an overhand (pronated) grip.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Grip the bar with a pronated (overhand) grip, then use your back muscles to pull the bar down to the top of your chest.
    — Tony Gentilcore, Men's Health, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Bend at your hips and knees and grab the bar in an overhand grip, your arms just outside your legs.
    — Andrew Heffernan, Men's Health, 4 May 2023
  • How: Pop the bar overhead your head and hold the bar with a double overhand grip in front of your quads.
    — Jon-Erik Kawamoto, Outside Online, 24 May 2021
  • Pitch from the stretch, and throw the ball overhand, not sidearm. Don’t come in with this big windup, because who knows where the ball will go?
    — Michael S. Schmidt, New York Times, 17 July 2016
  • That’s one shy of the record eight in 1884, the first season overhand pitching was allowed.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2021
  • That's one shy of the record eight in 1884, the first season overhand pitching was allowed.
    — Greg Beacham, Star Tribune, 25 June 2021
  • The record of eight was set in 1884, the first season overhand pitching was allowed.
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 16 July 2021
  • That’s when Franco opened a bloody cut over Moloney’s left eye with an overhand right.
    — John Whisler, ExpressNews.com, 24 June 2020
  • Grab the bar with an overhand grip, a little wider than shoulder width.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Grip the bar with a double-overhand grip shoulder-width apart.
    — Jon-Erik Kawamoto, Outside Online, 24 May 2021
  • Push your hips back, and squat to grab kettlebell or weight (overhand grip).
    — Evin Billington, PEOPLE.com, 11 July 2017
  • That timeline had Newton tossing the football overhand again in the third week of June.
    — Mark Inabinett, AL.com, 17 June 2017
  • The most common throwing method is the overhand technique.
    — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 29 May 2020
  • Grab the bar using an overhand, shoulder-width grip, and sit upright.
    — Tony Gentilcore, Men's Health, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Grasp it with an overhand, slightly-wider-than-shoulder-width grip.
    — David Otey, Men's Health, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Knot experts called into court made the same looping overhand and half-hitch knots for jurors to see.
    — Pauline Repard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Apr. 2018
  • As Day retreats, Conwell stuns him with an overhand right.
    — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Philpott described the overhand and clove hitch knots found on the body as common in nautical uses.
    — Pauline Repard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Grasp it with an overhand grip, squeeze your shoulder blades, and pull your torso upward, pausing at the top.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The officer investigated and found bread on the ground around the apartment building and on the flat roof of an overhand near the front door.
    — cleveland, 5 Mar. 2022
  • When Manasse tried to dink a shot over Gauff’s head midway through the first set, the teenager backpedaled quickly and fired an overhand charge past her 24-year-old foe.
    — Andrew Kostka, USA TODAY, 27 July 2019
  • The feverish pace slowed in the fifth, but Ruiz still was damage-minded, rocking Arreola twice in the final minute with a pair of overhand right hands.
    — Manouk Akopyan, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2021
  • Gilbert is trying to throw MLB's eighth no-hitter of the season, which would match the record set in 1884 — the first season overhand pitching was allowed.
    — David Brandt, ajc, 15 Aug. 2021
  • On the first one, Machado chucked the bat toward his dugout overhand and screamed with the intensity of a middle linebacker.
    — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Nunes sent Spencer’s mouthpiece flying with an overhand right.
    — Mma Junkie, azcentral, 6 June 2020

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