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Example sentences for "manages"

Lexicographically close words:
manager; manageress; managerial; managers; managership; managing; manana; manat; manatee; manatees
  1. She persuades him to come to Alexandria, manages to bring her husband thither also, and makes them both appear before the Sultan.

  2. He is familiar with fragments of Æolic lyrists and Roman epic poets, of Greek tragedies and Roman inscriptions; and, what is still more remarkable, he manages to make use of all his knowledge.

  3. By throwing doubt on her husband's rights as father of the child held to be theirs in common, the woman in the play manages to undermine the reason of a strong and well-balanced man until he becomes transformed into a raving maniac.

  4. More and more as he pushes on from one height to another, he manages to fuse the two offices of artist and moralist without injury to either of them.

  5. He manages to keep all competition away and to lay a heavy tribute on the feminine population.

  6. By the aid of his friend Ispanski he manages to cheat his wife and to get his niece married to his wife's brother.

  7. You can get most of the ordinary necessaries of life in every country you enter, and in nine cases out of ten the native manages to evolve the article best suited to the daily needs of the country he lives in and the life he leads, e.

  8. What an advocate is: one that manages a cause for another at court, and undertakes to procure his justification and discharge.

  9. Pradon manages this much better: when Theseus is asked by a confidant if he really had been in the world below, he answers, how could any sensible man possibly believe so silly a tale!

  10. He manages to run his own experience and feelings into the moulds provided for him by his predecessor.

  11. If you will sit back and not frighten it, I have no doubt it will soon give you an opportunity of seeing how it manages the matter.

  12. Nevertheless it manages to capture as many as it requires.

  13. This then was the American tradition, that private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal.

  14. After years of poverty and striving he manages to save enough money to buy one, and on the first day he wears it it is stolen.

  15. An ordinary traveller from Petrograd--an intrepid liar--is mistaken for the Inspector and plays up to his part until the arrival of the real one, when he manages to effect his escape.

  16. The day and hour are fixed by the soothsayer, but he manages to make his divinations harmonize with the plans of the parents who engaged his services.

  17. He manages to get some fun out of everything, the funeral being no exception.

  18. He is too good a steward, and, if he manages Pumpelhagen as well as he has so far, the lieutenant can afford to keep us waiting a good while yet.

  19. The history becomes a shifting chaos marked by no definite policy, and the ship of State is being steered at random as one or other of the competitors for rule manages to grasp the helm for a moment.

  20. Pope indeed manages to introduce genuine poetry, as in his famous compliments or his passage about his mother, in which we feel that he is really speaking from his heart.

  21. But the r'kass knows every ford, and, his long pole aiding him, manages to reach his destination.

  22. She bears three sons, which the midwife exchanges for three whelps; the same thing happens a second time; and also a third time, when the wife manages to save one son.

  23. He manages to do all by means of a magic staff, and so obtains the horse; whilst the witch is burnt to death in the bath which she thinks will make her young.

  24. She having once become your wife will reveal to you all her secrets; she will also tell you how she manages to keep alive so long, and by what ways and means she may be got rid of.

  25. My sister, Mrs. Arnold, who manages Ralston House just down the street from here, took Miss Briggs because she thought one of her girls wasn't coming back.

  26. I don't see how she manages to do all that work and study, too.

  27. The chambermaid gives way in a moment of hunger and temptation, manages to get the key, and is discovered by the worthless son of the house stealing cakes.

  28. But Berlin certainly manages its Submerged Tenth both more humanely and more wisely than we manage ours.

  29. How he manages to miss both seems incomprehensible, but he does.

  30. Further still is the blissful (universal) Soul that manages the universe.

  31. By her lower part, the universal Soul resembles the vital principle which animates a great plant, and which there manages everything peaceably and noiselessly.

  32. In the virtuous man, there is a life which resembles the aristocracy, because he manages to withdraw from the influence of the commonplace part, and because he listens to what is best in himself.

  33. She manages everybody in the place; makes the lazy carry her, the silent talk to her, and the grave to romp with her.

  34. I thank you," she manages to say very calmly, not committing herself, either way, and presently finds herself in the street with her husband and her children.

  35. Mr. Beauclerk makes another little attempt, and so manages that his hand meets hers.

  36. In short, my doctrine is simply the old-fashioned and confiding belief that marriages are made in heaven: with the further corollary that heaven manages them, one time with another, a great deal better than Sir George Campbell.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.