1. A climber literally crawls, hand over hand, up a vertical face, sinking the ax with every step.

2. He climbed up the tree hand over hand .

3. We overtook them hand over hand.

4. The only way to climb a rope is hand over hand .

5. At feeding time, sloths move slowly and carefully, hand over hand through the treetops, searching for leaves, buds, fruits, and twigs.

6. He's getting along hand over hand; he'll soon be convalescent.

7. Bundle out of this, please hand over hand, and double quick.

8. Moving hand over hand, Josh floats over to the tank containing his alter ego, the avatar body.

9. We held our breath as Loi carefully pulled in the last few yards of line hand over hand.

10. Quick as thought, I sprang into the mizzen shrouds , rattled up hand over hand,(Sentence dictionary) and did not draw a breath till I was seated on the cross-trees.

11. Within a mile Ennis felt like someone was pulling his guts out hand over hand a yard at a time.

12. He attached a safety line and leaped into the water, moving hand over hand along the static rope toward the dinghy.

13. At the nine-minute mark, Patricio signaled us to grab hold of the sloping bottom and move up against the current, hand over hand.