MANEUVER in a Sentence

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31 example sentences for MANEUVER, such as:

1. All the fighters landed safely on the airport after the military maneuver.
2. We use this maneuver tactic as a core for a lot of our operational procedures.
3. He must anticipate the maneuvers of the other lawyers and beat them at their own game.
4. Edna admired the skill of his maneuver, and avoided any occasion to balk his intentions.
5. Then somehow she would maneuver to get a few minutes alone with him, away from the crowd.

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 Meanings and Examples of MANEUVER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
maneuver
 n.  a movement or set of movements needing skill and care; strategy
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  Then somehow she would maneuver to get a few minutes alone with him, away from the crowd.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  You could promise, with your eyes, any number of exciting things that would make a man maneuver to get you alone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  Edna admired the skill of his maneuver, and avoided any occasion to balk his intentions.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXII
4  The charge, in that rude species of warfare, consisted merely in pushing from cover to cover, nigher to the enemy; and in this maneuver he was instantly and successfully obeyed.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
5  So it is impossible to understand by what reasoning the historians reach the conclusion that this maneuver was a profound one.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER I
6  Kutuzov's merit lay, not in any strategic maneuver of genius, as it is called, but in the fact that he alone understood the significance of what had happened.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER II
7  This longing to distinguish themselves, to maneuver, to overthrow, and to cut off showed itself particularly whenever the Russians stumbled on the French army.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER IV
8  This maneuver she repeated several times, to the great amusement of a black-eyed young gentleman lounging in the window of a building opposite.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FOURTEEN
9  He then returned to the captain, said a few words to him, and as if from that moment the vessel was under his command, he ordered a maneuver which the crew executed immediately.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 49 FATALITY
10  Having maneuvered them away from the boring subject of war, she went back with interest to their immediate situation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
11  When Uncle Peter finally maneuvered the carriage out of the mudholes and onto Peachtree Street, she felt the first surge of interest she had known in months.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  All that afternoon, she maneuvered to be alone with Ashley, even for a few minutes, but Melanie was beside him constantly, and India and Honey, their pale lashless eyes glowing, followed him about the house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
13  It was after she had maneuvered the Lady Harpists into the fold that Mrs. Merriwether said to Mrs. Meade and Mrs. Whiting that they must have Melanie at the head of the Circle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
14  Herself a consummate coquette, she could not have maneuvered better on meeting a man she wished to attract.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VI
15  D'Artagnan, who had unceasingly maneuvered to gain this point, was not at more than three paces from it.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 37 MILADY'S SECRET
Example Sentence:
1  There is a moment in every battle at which the least maneuver is decisive and gives superiority as one drop of water causes overflow.
2  All the fighters landed safely on the airport after the military maneuver.
3  We use this maneuver tactic as a core for a lot of our operational procedures.
4  Custer's troops expected they might run into a skirmish or two on maneuvers; they did not expect to face a major battle.
5  He must anticipate the maneuvers of the other lawyers and beat them at their own game.
6  Republicans and Democrats in Congress lumbered through a day of political maneuvering Saturday while a threatened default by the Treasury crept uncomfortably closer.