MANUAL in a Sentence

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33 example sentences for MANUAL, such as:

1. Video games demand great manual dexterity.
2. The school offers manual training to the pupils.
3. You need manual dexterity to be good at video games.
4. They do manual labor in the fields all the year round.
5. The computer comes with a comprehensive owner's manual.

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 Meanings and Examples of MANUAL
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manual
 n.  guide book; hand-operated
Classic Sentence:
1  It was beyond their comprehension that an O'Hara lady should do manual labor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
2  Thousands of house servants, the highest caste in the slave population, remained with their white folks, doing manual labor which had been beneath them in the old days.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
3  In the living-room Vida and Kennicott debated "the value of manual training in grades below the eighth," while Carol sat beside Guy at the dining table, buttering pop-corn.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  The manual rites then ceased and all present reverted to the more spiritual part of the ceremonies.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
5  Topsy was smart and energetic in all manual operations, learning everything that was taught her with surprising quickness.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
6  And this the common schools and the manual training and trade schools are working to accomplish.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VI
7  They unconsciously had imbibed the feeling that manual labour was not the proper thing for them.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I.
8  When it came to brickmaking, their distaste for manual labour in connection with book education became especially manifest.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X.
9  No student, no matter how much money he may be able to command, is permitted to go through school without doing manual labour.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIII.
10  But his self-love would endure no further torment: I heard, and not altogether disapprovingly, a manual check given to her saucy tongue.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
11  They shouted and threw snowballs, and informed her that it was SUCH fun, and they'd have another skiing expedition right away, and they jollily returned home and never thereafter left their manuals of bridge.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  They had borrowed Carol's manuals of play-production and had become extremely stagey in vocabulary.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  They have no reservations about taking factory or manual jobs.
2  The school offers manual training to the pupils.
3  Video games demand great manual dexterity.
4  You need manual dexterity to be good at video games.
5  This education aimed at combining brain work with manual labour.
6  The computer comes with a comprehensive owner's manual.
7  Please program the computer to do the job instead of manual operation.
8  This education aimed at combining brain work with manual labor.
9  They do manual labor in the fields all the year round.
10  They know it when their older loved ones die sooner because of having led harsh lives in domestic service or manual labor.
11  She tried to cure the pain in my knee by putting manual pressure on the joint.
12  No great manual dexterity is required to perform the technique.
13  Don't bother with the computer manual - you'll pick it up as you go along.
14  The on-screen manual shows the novice user the basics of the program.
15  The instruction manual includes a section on troubleshooting to help you with any simple problems you might have with the television.