Handcuff is an English word with synonyms like cuff or shackle. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Handcuff meaning
One ring of a locking fetter for the hand or one pair.
Using Handcuff
- The main meaning on this page is: One ring of a locking fetter for the hand or one pair.
- Useful related words include: cuff, manacle, shackle, handlock.
- In the example corpus, handcuff often appears in combinations such as: to handcuff, handcuff him, and handcuff.
Context around Handcuff
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 13 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Handcuff
- In this selection, "handcuff" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, dunk, night, pitzulo, man, hanging and herself stand out and add context to how "handcuff" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include attempted to handcuff taylor who and but to handcuff herself to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "handcuff" sits close to words such as adjoint, affixes and agonisingly, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with handcuff
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Grab the other handcuff on my wrist. (7 words)
Webster had the handcuff hanging on the left hand, Police said. (11 words)
Brown is a slam-dunk handcuff, and considering his production, it is possible his role grows. (16 words)
NBC News in their report add: "another officer who responded to the scene asked Taylor to exit his car and attempted to handcuff Taylor, who pulled his arms away, fell to the ground and continued to resist arrest while on the ground, the affidavit said. (45 words)
Let's start with why are we training FBI agents to roust a suspect in the middle of the night, handcuff them, throw them in the shower, and interrogate them on site without a lawyer for 45 minutes? (38 words)
Floyd is seen sobbing as the officers pull him out of the car and handcuff him, as his ex suggests he was undergoing mental problems and was afraid of police. (30 words)
Let's start with why are we training FBI agents to roust a suspect in the middle of the night, handcuff them, throw them in the shower, and interrogate them on site without a lawyer for 45 minutes? (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
As he approached their jeep, Washington Post reporters saw uniformed officers pull him aside for questions, then handcuff him.
As the deputy tried to take him into custody, Pope resisted the effort to handcuff him, according to court documents.
Brown is a slam-dunk handcuff, and considering his production, it is possible his role grows.
He said: "The soldiers then took me to their headquarters and cut off the handcuff from my hands and set me free.
Let's start with why are we training FBI agents to roust a suspect in the middle of the night, handcuff them, throw them in the shower, and interrogate them on site without a lawyer for 45 minutes?
Mills said in his hearing that he was trying to help other officers to “gain control” of a young woman to handcuff her.
Police say when they tried to handcuff man, he became combative and proceeded to assault them.
She was aggressive and swearing when officers arrived and began kicking out when they tried to handcuff her.
The deputy grabs the woman and eventually forcibly throws her to the ground, then struggles to handcuff her, ultimately using pepper spray in an effort to detain her.
The video shows two deputies pull a bleeding and wounded Mullinax out of the truck and handcuff him.
After arriving at the police station, Grady was able to slip out of a handcuff and flee from the station.
Grab the other handcuff on my wrist.
Webster had the handcuff hanging on the left hand, Police said.
When the police showed up to the store, they let Pitzulo handcuff the man he helped arrest.
Floyd is seen sobbing as the officers pull him out of the car and handcuff him, as his ex suggests he was undergoing mental problems and was afraid of police.
Francine Fragdorf took the news of Greta Gerwig’s Best Director snub so hard that she had no other choice but to handcuff herself to the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile.
In another run-in, officers handcuff a looting suspect on the ground, one pressing a knee into his neck — the same tactic used on George Floyd.
NBC News in their report add: "another officer who responded to the scene asked Taylor to exit his car and attempted to handcuff Taylor, who pulled his arms away, fell to the ground and continued to resist arrest while on the ground, the affidavit said.
But as serious as these offences may be, they do not provide a legitimate or reasonable ground to handcuff him for his court appearances.
By Thursday, it had become so unbearable the officers had to handcuff his left hand to the gate of an inner cell.
Common combinations with handcuff
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: