Rosecrans had very skilfully manoeuvred Bragg south of the Tennessee River, and through and beyond Chattanooga.
Here he manoeuvred to give the impression that we were going to attack the left flank of Lee's army.
We manoeuvred by divisions and brigades when in motion, and it was a magnificent sight as we thus steamed down the river.
Flinders manoeuvred so as to keep his broadside to the stranger, "lest the flag of truce should be a deception.
Dance then manoeuvred as if his intention were to shut in the French squadron between two lines, and rake them on both flanks.
But for that, Con would have manoeuvred against his wife to send him downstairs at the lady's heels.
Soon we arrived within sight of the village, and stealthily we manoeuvred from tree to tree until we were but a few yards distant from the largest logged structure.
When the leader got near enough he saw two men wrestling near a buckboard and he manoeuvred so as to insert himself into the fracas at the first opportunity.
His retreat from the house, made along two sides of a triangle, was prompted by his knowledge of the positions of Rose and Dave and he manoeuvred so they should not be able to see him.
Once or twice when she was out with Holland, or even with her mother, she manoeuvred a little in order to go past the tall, undistinguished-looking building, and look up curiously at its shrouded windows.
Queenie never sought opportunities to snatch a hurried colloquy during recreation, or manoeuvred to obtain Alex as companion at la ronde, or when they played games in the garden.
By dint of a carefully-exercised diplomacy, Racksole manoeuvred himself into a seat opposite to the lady in the red hat.
As the two watermen gingerly manoeuvred the boat on the ebbing tide, Hazell explained to the millionaire that the 'Squirm' was one of the most notorious craft on the river.
Now, as Racksole considered in detail the particular affair of Reginald Dimmock, deceased, he was struck by one point especially, to wit: Why had Dimmock and Jules manoeuvred to turn Nella Racksole out of Room No.
The shore took a hand in the game with small guns and rifles, and, as E14 manoeuvred about the roadstead "as requisite" there was a sudden unaccountable explosion which strained her very badly.
Adroitly manoeuvred in the darkness, for the search-lights were now screened lest a prowling U boat might take advantage of the motionless British destroyers, the Basher was made fast to her disabled consort.
Thrice hemanoeuvred sufficiently close to establish communication between his ship and the drifting Warrior, Twice the flexible wire hawser parted like pack-thread.
On the 18th he weighed again, and the two fleets manoeuvred for the advantage, with light baffling airs, the British furthest from shore.
The best engine-driver in the kingdom could not have brought his locomotive up to a train of waiting carriages easier than Devoran manoeuvred the after part of the "Aphrodite" up to the fore compartment.
As a matter of course they fought, and the Pelican, one of the improved brigs, soon out-manoeuvred and raked her antagonist.
The two fleets manoeuvred as before, avoiding close quarters, and indeed, for full five days, hardly exchanged a shot.
Then they manoeuvred to regain the fort, but the Indian forces cut them off.
He manoeuvred as though he intended to attack the Miami villages to the south, but, suddenly changing his course, he marched his troops northward, straight into the Indian settlements on the Au Glaize.
Admiral Hughes got under way, and the two fleets manoeuvred during the night.
In the first of their three actions the Frenchman took the lee-gage; but after recognizing Rodney's purpose he manoeuvred for the advantage of the wind, not to attack, but to refuse action except on his own terms.
His right and left wings manoeuvred to join him at Siedler, the principal town, through which we passed.
Beale set his teeth and manoeuvred for a lock grip, but he was badly placed, pressed as he was against the edge of the bench.
That is where you are wrong," said Beale, stopping in his stride, "van Heerden has so manoeuvredthe Pressmen that he comes out with an enhanced reputation.
Indeed, the difficulty of hitting a moving object with heavy cannon is so great that slow wooden ships do not hesitate to encounter forts and to reduce them, for a moving ship can be so manoeuvred as to hit a stationary fort.
Upon the top of it, and to be loaded and manoeuvred from within it, were to be five 15-inch smooth-bores and two 10-inch rifled guns clad with armor.
And on the day of the Centenary she had manoeuvredto let Janet and Mr Orgreave go in front.
All the machinery in it had had to be manoeuvred up the rickety stairs, or put through one of the windows on either side of the window that had been turned into a door.
Cutty waved a hand cheerfully if vaguely toward his guiding star, picked up the chair, commandeered the clothes pole, and silently manoeuvred to the wall of the warehouse.
With careful step Hawksley manoeuvred his retreat so that it brought him to Cutty's bedroom door.
He manoeuvred himself abreast an immense log pointing up and down river, alongside of which the current slipped silkily.
While he talked he manoeuvred to keep himself between Imbrie and the woman.
Their two regular brigadiers, Winfield Scott and Ripley, kept them well in hand, manoeuvred their surplus battalions to the best advantage, overlapped the weaker British flank, and won the day.
Smyth planned, talked, and manoeuvredfor two days more, and then tried to make his real effort on the 1st of December.
If the Hitachi had manoeuvred at all, it was simply so that she should not[1] present her broadside as a target for a torpedo from the raider.
Perhaps, boy, but it may happen that when the enemy finds how he has been out-manoeuvred and that he is trapped he may surrender.
Not that, but that, as I said before, he has been completely out-manoeuvred by your father.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manoeuvred" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
