I only wish you could take a squint through here, and watch how he manipulates the levers, in spite of that stiff arm of his.
He communicates his (humanly recognizable and comprehensible) inner world to us (which is how he manipulates us and his environment).
The master puppeteer, unable to resist his urges, manipulates John Malkovich and finally possesses him completely.
A far simpler device, the plain magneto switchboard--so simple that the girl who manipulates it may also often care for its troubles--is admirably adapted to the purpose.
It has already been stated that the subscriber manipulates the signal transmitter by rotating the dial on the face of the instrument.
The luti plays a sort of "whangadoodle" tune on a guitar, and manipulates the string so as to make the deer keep time to the tune.
When the tell-card has become the second from the top the dealer manipulates the two-card device and draws out two cards at once.
Then, with everyone in the carriage following his movements, he again throws the cards down and manipulates them as before.
The man who manipulates the literary machine is the publisher, that invisible person who usually grows rich upon the profits of unsuccessful books.
Of course the monster who presides at the publisher's desk cannot be as brutal to her as he is to men, but he manipulates her copyright statements all the same, so that her book never passes the line of fifteen hundred copies sold.
Farman employs a lever to actuate the rudders, but manipulates the balancing planes by foot levers.
Santos-Dumont uses two hand levers with which to steer and elevate, but manipulatesthe planes by means of an attachment to the back of his outer coat.
Even when inventing subjects, founded upon the experiences of everyday life, he so manipulates the story as to make it illustrate some of his favorite moral maxims.
He manipulates the elements of character to suit his own view of development, just as Spenser manipulated the elements of the story to suit his own allegorical purpose.
Meantime, other men, not carried away by impulse, use established habits and a shrewd cold intellect that manipulates them.
Ascertaining how the facts stand, he takes a hand and manipulates them.
In short, he both explores the list as it stands and manipulates it into some shape that promises to be rememberable.
He manipulates impulsively; seeing a possible opening he responds to it, and meeting a check he backs off and tries something else.
He manipulates with fair skill, has a clock right above him, and ought, therefore, to keep "good time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manipulates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
