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Example sentences for "manipulating"

Lexicographically close words:
maniple; maniples; manipulate; manipulated; manipulates; manipulation; manipulations; manipulative; manipulator; manipulators
  1. The two handles 82 serve for manipulating the instrument.

  2. Nor are they restricted to the small number which Kant obtained by manipulating the current subdivision of judgments.

  3. For a long time he managed his depredations most skilfully, and his methods of throwing dust into the eyes of the clerks under him by manipulating the books of the bank were extremely clever.

  4. Next I hired myself out to the manager of a puppet show where I developed a great aptitude in the art of manipulating the puppets.

  5. The mind is nothing but a means of manipulating the outside world.

  6. His other hand was speeding through the movements of manipulating the astrocalculator.

  7. As if, whatever this is manipulating natural laws can also manipulate the way our minds work.

  8. Control of the nominations meant control of the elections, and was within reach of those who were persistent in attending caucuses and conventions and were not too scrupulous in manipulating them.

  9. Rockefeller happened to be more successful than others in manipulating transportation.

  10. They have all the time owned a powerful press which has employed all the resources of education and enlightenment, all the powers of manipulating facts and figures in maintaining and strengthening the rule of autocracy in the country.

  11. The diagnosis is completed by manipulating the upper part of the throat from without and by the introduction of the hand into the back part of the mouth, finding the body lodged here.

  12. He treated hay fever by manipulating the eyes, nose, and both the inside and the outside of the throat, wherever the itching appeared.

  13. Metcalfe had done with his manipulating finger.

  14. By manipulating the muscles of the chest, neck, back, and abdomen, he would find certain points that hurt or where the muscles were plainly tight or stiff.

  15. With the faradic current just as with the manipulating fingers, there are sore spots that the patient describes as bruised.

  16. Do not attempt to change the depth by manipulating the balance cock.

  17. We have now come to setting or manipulating the pallet stones so they will act in exact conjunction with the fork and roller.

  18. Talkers and men skilful in manipulating other men have been taken too seriously.

  19. They are victors in contests that are decided largely upon the basis of superior ability in manipulating men.

  20. An insect (a species of Empis) has been described which excites the female by manipulating a large balloon.

  21. I here leave out of account the widespread practice among nurses of soothing very young children in their charge by manipulating the sexual organs.

  22. They were obtained by playing a stringed instrument called koto, by standing at a cross-street and watching the passers, by manipulating stones, and by counting footsteps.

  23. Lesser Kami were created by manipulating the jewels.

  24. Keyse was tested, proved capable of manipulating the steering-wheel, duly certificated, and engaged.

  25. In manipulating them, they are living not with the physical things, but in the large world of meanings, natural and social, evoked by these things.

  26. The problem is due to the pleasure taken in manipulating concepts, and discussion goes on because concepts are kept from inconvenient contact with facts.

  27. The ribbons were held by a gentleman who appeared capable of manipulating them; by his side a lady equally suitable to the equipage; while an appropriate boy in top-boots and buttons occupied the back seat.

  28. You know there's no resource left me but the little skill I've acquired in manipulating pasteboard.

  29. I was soon quite practiced at manipulating my stomach, as well as determining whether my nauseousness would irreversibly result in oral elimination or if it would finally subside without an event.

  30. Aiming for a vein, the doctor edged the needle through my skin and missing his target, attempted to strike it again and again by manipulating the direction of the needle.

  31. Blaine, getting the machine gun in shooting trim with one hand while manipulating the controls with the other.

  32. In the gray dawn they could see the pilot, still seated, dexterously manipulating every agency that might enable him to keep his balance without falling out.

  33. Already he was again in his seat, turning on the power, swiftly yet surely manipulating the controls.

  34. There is somebody behind it all who is keeping utterly in the dark, somebody who is manipulating all the various bands of smugglers around this part of the world.

  35. It was hoped that by manipulating these cylinders she could be put in equilibrium with the water she displaced, and that she could then be steered in any desired direction by the vertical and horizontal rudders placed at her stern.

  36. The work begins with the definition of a calculus as "The art of manipulating substitutive signs according to fixed rules, and the deduction therefrom of true propositions" (loc.

  37. Briefly, then, we may sum up the task of applying and manipulating varnish upon a carriage surface as a delicate job.

  38. The design of the flat scroll once laid out on paper, the painter used to manipulating a lettering or striping pencil can readily fill in the outlines.

  39. Four steam cranes are provided for manipulating the suction pipes.

  40. The vessel was fitted with a steam engine and boiler for working and manipulating the pumps and the heavy side chains for the guidance of the dredger.

  41. I would have waited until the reckless speculators who are now manipulating the market had put the stock higher, but I did not dare.

  42. To-day you and your fellow-plunderers stand convicted in the eyes of the whole world not only of juggling the moneys of the widow and the orphan in the stock-market, but of manipulating these trust funds for the benefit of your own pockets.


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