MANUSCRIPT in a Sentence

Learn MANUSCRIPT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

61 example sentences for MANUSCRIPT, such as:

1. The manuscript bears the date 10 April 1937.
2. I should proofread my manuscripts before sending.
3. A deluge of manuscripts began to arrive in the post.
4. The present whereabouts of the manuscript is unknown.
5. He had decided to publish the manuscript no matter what.

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 Meanings and Examples of MANUSCRIPT
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manuscript
 n.  written with or by the hand; not printed; literary or musical composition written with the hand
Classic Sentence: (47 in 4 pages)
1  I think I have made a start, said Mr. Dick, passing his hand among his grey hair, and casting anything but a confident look at his manuscript.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
2  The Doctor, with a complacent smile, was reading aloud some manuscript explanation or statement of a theory out of that interminable Dictionary, and she was looking up at him.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
3  I occasionally made a pretence of wanting a page or two of manuscript copied.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING
4  Taking up his manuscript, reading through what he had written, he found with pleasure that the work was worth his working at.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 15
5  Round the cloth-covered table, at which Katavasov and Metrov seated themselves, there were some half-dozen persons, and one of these was bending close over a manuscript, reading something aloud.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 3
6  And turning over the beautifully written, wide-margined manuscript, Alexey Alexandrovitch read aloud over again the conclusive passage.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 17
7  Alexey Alexandrovitch paused, thoughtfully turning over the pages of his manuscript.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 17
8  Then they would talk, or read together, or go over his manuscript.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
9  He gazed into her face in a vague, wondering manner, like that of one examining some strange old manuscript the key to whose characters is undiscoverable.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
10  "I have in my pocket a manuscript," said Dr. James Mortimer.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
11  Holmes stretched out his hand for the manuscript and flattened it upon his knee.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
12  But the manuscript is short and is intimately connected with the affair.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
13  He had, as I understand, some sort of map or chart which he was comparing with the manuscript, and which he thrust into his pocket when you appeared.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
14  But, fortunately, Musgrave, who had begun to appreciate the meaning of my proceedings, and who was now as excited as myself, took out his manuscript to check my calculation.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
15  She had just copied them with great care, and had destroyed the old manuscript, so that Amy's bonfire had consumed the loving work of several years.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
Example Sentence:
1  A fragment of Psalm 83 is legible but it will take much longer to analyze the whole manuscript.
2  I request that she inputs the entire manuscript in 2 days.
3  She stepped forward to the edge of the platform, cleared her throat, held up her manuscript, and proceeded to read.
4  The editor recognized the plagiarism and rebuked the culprit who had presented the manuscript as original.
5  The manuscript bears the date 10 April 1937.
6  He always checked the manuscript over carefully before passing it to the typist.
7  The present whereabouts of the manuscript is unknown.
8  He had decided to publish the manuscript no matter what.
9  I should proofread my manuscripts before sending.
10  They will collate the newly found manuscripts to determine their age.
11  As we examine ancient manuscripts, we become impressed with the calligraphy of the scribes.
12  To delve into old books and manuscripts is part of a researcher's job.
13  A deluge of manuscripts began to arrive in the post.
14  Most manuscripts postdate the stories which have circulated by word of mouth for centuries.