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Example sentences for "manipulations"

Lexicographically close words:
manipulate; manipulated; manipulates; manipulating; manipulation; manipulative; manipulator; manipulators; manis; manito
  1. The killed animal also furnished a skin, which after undergoing certain manipulations and other treatments, could serve as a protective covering, ornament, or defensive weapon.

  2. They well know that an investigation would disclose frauds and manipulations which could not be defended, and would prove his claim to the office of governor wholly unfounded upon right.

  3. Kolb swept the state with cyclonic victory, notwithstanding the fact that he was defrauded by the manipulations of the ballot-box stuffers, unscrupulous returning-officers and unprincipled members of canvassing-boards.

  4. How many brilliant minds have been overthrown as a result of your manipulations of stock in Wall Street?

  5. The plan was conceived at the time the success of the manipulations of yourself and your friends seemed assured.

  6. A round concavo-convex glass of shallow depth used for certain manipulations of chemicals in a laboratory.

  7. A system of treatment based on the theory that diseases are chiefly due to deranged mechanism of the bones, nerves, blood vessels, and other tissues, and can be remedied by manipulations of these parts.

  8. Influenced by these motives, I determined to reserve, for a third part of my work, a summary description of all the instruments and manipulations relative to elementary chemistry.

  9. She is stout and inclined to a large appetite, particularly affecting roast pork with plenty of seasoning; but she passes readily into "the superior condition" under the manipulations of a male operator.

  10. The answer is that there is reason to fear that a bad man may be elected president by manipulations carried out with a masterly hand, thereby jeopardizing the national welfare.

  11. It was a gold indebtedness subject to all sorts of manipulations which no Chinese properly understood.

  12. As to the manipulations of the process, they have been given.

  13. This article relates to the manipulations required for the production of nitre.

  14. It is certain that such manipulations of the genital organs, entirely non-sexual in origin, may lead to the practice of masturbation.

  15. More frequently, however, the danger lies, not in attempts at coitus, but in other improper manipulations and contacts, which may take almost every conceivable form.

  16. The same delicacy of touch and of perception that makes them good at the needle, would make them efficient in the delicate manipulations of the micrometer.

  17. The impression for chalk drawings is made by delicate manipulations with crayon pencils; for ink drawings, with steel pens and camel-hair brushes.

  18. Many substances have to go through Blowpipe manipulations before they can be submitted to an analysis in the wet way.

  19. Then put on the design with ink or crayon, and perform the succeeding etching and other manipulations exactly as in the preceding case.

  20. I hoped that perhaps I might induce some such visitor to participate in our undertaking, and therefore I exhibited all the advantages of the process and permitted them to see the manipulations with their own eyes.

  21. And the potion proved equally ineffective on mind and body, as indeed did all the manipulations exercised upon a little waxen image that was supposed to represent M.

  22. Their manipulations of the market embrace every device that is useful to them, without regard to law.

  23. His father had "up with him" over forty thousand dollars in cash covering market manipulations in these stocks.

  24. The difference between the two consists mainly in their purpose; the manipulations are substantially the same, so are the objects.

  25. Shotaye knew this, and herself but indifferently versed in the black art, concluded that the black corn would also reveal, if properly handled, the agent whose manipulations caused Say Koitza's sufferings.

  26. By means of a series of painless manipulations through the abdominal wall of the mother, the head, the body, and the extremities of the child may be mapped out, and the conclusions verified by locating the fetal heart-sounds.

  27. Such manipulations cause the muscle fibers to contract firmly, and in consequence the blood vessels are tightly closed and bleeding ceases.

  28. As they are ignorant of aseptic precautions, their manipulations must necessarily contaminate the site of operation; for this reason and others as well women who attempt to perform an abortion upon themselves imperil their lives.

  29. With an inexperienced masseuse, however, it will be safer not to massage the abdomen, since awkward, vigorous, or prolonged manipulations in that locality may provoke painful uterine contractions.

  30. One must always be alert to see the very first attempt at breathing, for unduly prolonged manipulations may defeat their own object; the natural inclination always is to do too much rather than not enough.

  31. Before describing the actual process of making an enlargement it will be well to deal with the alternative method of working, namely, by artificial light, as the manipulations of the sensitive material used are the same in either case.

  32. All manipulations except the actual printing must be conducted by red or yellow light, such as is allowed to pass through glass of these colours.

  33. In all these manipulations in the nose Arculanus recommends that the nose should be held well open by means of a nasal speculum.

  34. Other manipulations are suggested, and if necessary the wound must be enlarged.

  35. Some very ingenious suggestions and manipulations were made with regard to them.

  36. He developed the method of taxis by which hernias might be reduced, suggested an exaggerated Trendelenburg position for operations for hernia and for the manipulations necessary for the reduction of hernia.

  37. She was all ready for the spiritual manipulations of an expert.

  38. This was just the state to invite the spiritual manipulations of one of those theological practitioners who consider that the treatment of all morbid states of mind short of raving madness belongs to them and not to the doctors.

  39. I love to amuse myself in its plaster Golgothas, and listen to the glib professor, as he discovers by his manipulations "All that disgraced my betters met in me.

  40. At any rate, there are certain manipulations to be performed which will open this chamber and provide passage to the interior.

  41. Yet, in light of some new manipulations introduced by the Stroids, they seem feasible.

  42. The same evening the bridegroom submits himself to the manipulations of his barber, and then goes to one of the mosques accompanied by musicians, torch-bearers, and friends.

  43. He was considered to have “five bones out” and the usual manipulations were employed for their reduction.

  44. Joannides[1] describes her manipulations which he witnessed in company with many hundreds of medical men and students in the Ospedal Civico at Trieste.


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