Examples of hand to hand

• They begin to break out of the nearly obligatory object-in-the-mouth movement to hand-to-hand transfer, and fine manipulation.

• She had not been called upon to face poverty in the fair hand-to-hand struggle which ennobles and elevates the sturdy wrestler in the battle of life.

• After some fierce hand-to-hand fighting in the town, the battlefield command broke down completely and the commander could only watch almost helplessly as the fighting drew to an end.

• We may understand the heat of battle, active service, war, close quarter battle and hand-to-hand combat better than those in another place.

• Does he really think we are going to have periods of hand-to-hand fighting in the next war?

• It could be a battle of hand-to-hand fighting, block by block.

• After a phase of hand-to-hand fighting in the streets, all further effective resistance became impossible.

• It was an affair of horses, forced marches, grave commissariat troubles, and fierce hand-to-hand fighting.