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Example sentences for "manner"

Lexicographically close words:
mannan; manne; manned; mannequin; mannequins; mannered; mannerism; mannerisms; mannerist; mannerists
  1. Known as the Orthorrhapha and the Cyclorrhapha; these terms are derived from the manner in which the larval or pupal cuticle splits, as will be explained in the next chapter (p.

  2. Those Diptera in which the pupal cuticle splits in the normal, longitudinal manner are included in the Orthorrhapha (see p.

  3. There are other grounds for the belief that the Federal Supreme Court will refuse to sustain these instruments of disfranchisement, even though it has not of recent years acted in a manner to inspire faith.

  4. And she lowered her voice, as is the manner of her kind when forced to speak of the unspeakable.

  5. Yet the twelve reconnoiterers were instructed to proceed in the cautious manner customary to such nocturnal expeditions into No Man's Land.

  6. From time immemorial, it has been a favorite repository for all manner of illicit flotsam and jetsam human or otherwise.

  7. I cannot speak too highly of the manner in which my companions assisted me on this trying occasion.

  8. The health of the party has been excellent; and I cannot speak too highly of the manner in which each member of the expedition has conducted himself, under circumstances often of privation and difficulty.

  9. Mr. Barlee, who on rising was received with unbounded applause, said it would be impossible for him to conceal the fact that he was much pleased at the hearty manner in which his health had been proposed and received that evening.

  10. It now becomes my most pleasing duty to record my entire satisfaction with the manner in which all the members of the expedition exerted themselves in the performance of their respective duties.

  11. The Honourable the Commandant, in responding for the Army and the Navy, heartily thanked the assembly for the loyal manner in which the toast had been received.

  12. His Excellency the Governor, who was received most cordially, rose to thank them for the very kind manner in which they had received the toast which had been proposed by the worthy chairman.

  13. Gentlemen, in conclusion, I must again express my gratitude for the kind manner in which you have received me and the members of my party back amongst you.

  14. Gentlemen, on her behalf, and on my own behalf, I thank you most heartily for the kind manner in which this toast has been received.

  15. On the part of himself and his companions, he sincerely thanked them for the very kind manner in which they had drunk their health.

  16. He said he thanked the company most heartily for the manner in which they had drunk his health and that of his companions.

  17. I thank you most heartily for the honour you have done me, and the kind manner in which you have responded to the toast.

  18. Jemmy then asked him all manner of questions, but to no purpose, as he stated he knew nothing about the business.

  19. To such a degree was he charmed with his own verse, and so much did he also excel in his manner of reading, that he was always disgusted if he heard his own writings repeated with an ill grace and accent.

  20. The birds, especially the ground-builders, suffer in like manner from his plundering propensities.

  21. There was no variation in his manner of proceeding all the time I observed him.

  22. Sometimes by day it would come out of the corner and eat food under the lounge, eating very much after the manner of a pig, though not so greedily.

  23. I believe the flight of the family always takes place in this manner with this species of mouse.

  24. One day, late in November, I counted a dozen or more black walnuts put away in this manner in a little grove of locusts, chestnuts, and maples by the roadside, and could but smile at the wise forethought of the rascally squirrel.

  25. I think I have heard it called the kangaroo mouse, because of its form and its manner of running, which is in long leaps.

  26. But when she began to think of the thorough manner in which God does his work she began to wish that she had not prayed quite so earnestly.

  27. The whole tribe admitted in the most honorable manner that I was by far the best god they had ever had; they had not an unlucky day so long as they worshiped me, and I retained my Winchester and a full supply of cartridges.

  28. He had no mind to give it up either, and frightened by the excited manner in which they rushed upon him, he clung to it for dear life, filling the house with his shrieks.

  29. Beneath the girl's somewhat cold and reserved manner there was a genuine sweetness and charm which had at once responded to the unaffected friendliness of the older woman.

  30. Here I have been upholding her in her independence, taking her side, and she in the basest manner deserts and goes over to the enemy," she exclaimed.

  31. He was reflecting how pleasant it was to be giving a party, when the hall door opened to let in Peterkin and closed again in what might have seemed a mysterious manner but for the sound of stifled laughter on the outside.

  32. I do not think I could make any difference in my manner of living at my age, even if I wished to, and I do not; but I am beginning to see that there may be a charm about--other ways.

  33. This sentiment, and not the cumbersome device of an ill-arranged constitution, prevents Bavaria from using her independence in a manner inconsistent with the unity of the Empire.

  34. In this manner the Irish Constitution is, like that of Victoria, a copy of the English original.

  35. The accounts of the Irish Consolidated Fund shall be audited as appropriation accounts in manner provided by the Exchequer and Audit Departments Act, 1866, by or under the direction of the holder of such office.

  36. After the expiration of the said thirty years the said contributions shall, save as otherwise provided by this section, continue until altered in manner provided with respect to the alteration of this Act.

  37. When the whole of one flock is watered, its shepherd signals to it, and the sheep rise and move leisurely away, while another flock comes in a similar manner to the troughs, and so on, until all the flocks are watered.

  38. Surely none of us ought to be surprised that our story has itself grown under all this kindness, after the manner of children.

  39. It was their practice to avoid interfering with buffalo or other dangerous game so far as possible, but pallah, hartebeeste, koodoo, waterbuck and other antelopes were slain in the manner described, sometimes in great numbers.

  40. Her manner and attitude suggested woe and utter humility.

  41. When the offices were closed for the day, Teddy went home to his hut, and it was noticed by one who met him on the road that his manner was very preoccupied, and his walk unusually slow.

  42. But there was an air of conviction about the manner in which Ghamba showed his teeth when asked whether he was positive as to the identity of the man in the cave, that would have dissipated the doubts of most men.

  43. Each man held a coiled thong in his hands, after the manner of a sailor about to heave a line.

  44. He asked if I thought all men, black and white, were equal, It was not so much the question, as his manner of putting it, that struck me as being strange.

  45. This he indulged in, greatly to the entertainment of his friends and the detriment of his hands, which were generally discoloured in a manner that defied soap.

  46. On each bed, near the foot, the occupier's shawl was folded, and the manner of folding varied considerably.

  47. I knew by his manner that Amelie, who accompanied him, had been giving him a "talking to.

  48. In the drawing-room, Mrs. Lintot and one or two other ladies, severely dressed, would play the severest music in a manner that did not mitigate its severity.

  49. Then he came straight up, humming "la donna e mobile," and walked in with just the jaunty, airy manner I remembered.

  50. All the events of the day, distorted and exaggerated and jumbled together after the usual manner of dreams, wove themselves into a kind of nightmare and oppression.

  51. He could not be contented; yet, against reason, his manner told a different, braver story.

  52. He smiled at her and shook his head slightly, as if the manner of it were the only thing he could deny.

  53. There was no trace of her unrest of the moments before, either in her manner or in her own happy consciousness.

  54. Those who hold it, if questioned in the Socratic manner to give proofs in the first place of the existence of the ennobling influence they believe in, could well plead a general human consent on the point--a universal belief.

  55. Studied at close hand it is a pageant of varied colours due to the variations of light and shade on its surface, and to the manner in which the refraction of the light is affected by the partial melting of the topmost layer of the snow.

  56. King Luis was an enlightened patron of letters, and translated some of the plays of Shakespeare into Portuguese in a manner which showed him to be well versed in the capabilities of his own language.

  57. He wrote sonnets after the manner of Petrarch, elegies after Ariosto, eclogues after Virgil, and odes and epistles after Horace; but his greatest work was a drama founded on the model of the ancient Greek tragedies.

  58. Apaecides remained silent, but the changes rapidly passing over his speaking countenance betrayed the effect produced upon him by the words of the Egyptian--words made tenfold more eloquent by the voice, the aspect, and the manner of the man.

  59. As we have already witnessed at the house of Glaucus the ordinary routine of a Pompeian entertainment, the reader is spared any second detail of the courses, and the manner in which they were introduced.

  60. Her manner became unrestrained and her language fluent; and Arbaces, who had waited his opportunity, now hastened to seize it.

  61. He has not visited me for several days; and when I last saw him his manner disturbed and alarmed me much.

  62. In this manner I greet existence and await death.

  63. His voice was totally untrained, and as yet it broke into all manner of distressing falsetto fragments.

  64. It will be garbled and twisted into all manner of shapes, and it will come boomeranging back at her from every quarter of the town.

  65. There was a curt brevity in his manner which was new to Miss Gannion.

  66. Everything about it was above criticism, with the minor exception of the manner in which Lorimer had met his end.

  67. Beatrix forced herself to speak lightly, though it was an effort for her to resume the accent and manner which befitted the place.

  68. Beatrix is leaving all the plans to my uncle; and my aunt, who is a sentimental soul and has no idea of the real state of the case, is insisting that the poor old chap shall be buried with all manner of social honors.

  69. She recalled his old-time devotion and chivalry; she contrasted it with his moodiness and the brutal petulance which of late had marked his manner to her.

  70. Her manner was a shade more alert than usual; but her eyes, half-circled in heavy shadows, drooped before his eyes, as she gave him her hand.

  71. Instead, Bobby was still in morning dress, and his face and manner betokened some great excitement.

  72. But everyone, young and old adored his retiring Dutch manner and those deep blue eyes that carried some monumental sadness from the past.

  73. Either she left cured--which seemed wholly implausible at this point--or she departed in a manner that left no trace.

  74. A medical experiment that got away from us has turned into guns and virtual kidnapping and God knows what manner of felonies.

  75. This massively built matron is winged; she stands on a small globe suspended in the heavens, which have opened and are furled up like a garment in a manner entirely conventional.

  76. A good man, too, may create in a repulsive manner objects whose every association is ennobling or elevating.

  77. I have taken all manner of trouble about the carpets but cannot find any broad ones; they are all narrow and long.

  78. There I saw all manner of lordly splendour, more magnificent than anything that those who live in our parts have seen--all, as it has been described.

  79. The German artist's manner is less rhetorical, but his conception is hardly less grandiose; and his taste does not so closely border on over-emphasis, but neither is it so conscious or so fluent.

  80. No single man can be taken as a model of a perfect figure, for no man liveth on earth who uniteth in himself all manner of beauties.

  81. Almost with awe have we gazed upon the bearded face of the man, drawn by himself, in the manner we have described, with the brush on the canvas and without any previous sketch.

  82. As it is, he has given us water-colour sketches in which the blot is used to render the foliage of trees in a manner till then unprecedented.

  83. That he dwell in a pleasant house, so that he be distracted by no manner of hindrance.

  84. At first they drew up a remonstrance, which in the humblest manner they presented to their masters.

  85. He had done this in a casual manner so as not to arouse Spangler's suspicions.

  86. A pine-tree, growing close to the trail, had been felled in such a manner as to fall across it at right angles, making it impossible for the car to proceed.

  87. As soon as he was gone, Mr. Tomlinson's manner changed quickly.

  88. Whatever be the amount, up to a reasonable limit, which you choose to give, I will settle a like sum in such a manner that at my death it shall revert to her, and to her children by me, if she have any.

  89. His face brightened when he heard the news, although he realised that in a few hours he was to leave behind him all that he held most dear and to face death in a manner new to him, and by no means pleasant to most men.

  90. The latter was a middle-aged woman with hard features, clad in black, and wearing a handkerchief thrown loosely over her head after the manner of maids in those days.

  91. But there was such extraordinary assurance in the Zouave's manner that Sant' Ilario suddenly became exasperated with him and lost his temper, a misfortune which very rarely happened to him.

  92. The librarian did not answer, but it was evident from his manner that he was very much disturbed.

  93. Encouraged by Corona's determined manner as well as by the good sense of her arguments, the timid flock of relations expressed their approval audibly.

  94. Sir," he said, "I understand that you acted in the most impertinent manner in entering my room and taking what did not belong to you.

  95. It was true that she had told it for the second time, but, while believing entirely in her innocence, he saw that her manner might easily have made a bad impression upon the prefect.

  96. He asked himself why her manner should have changed, as it undoubtedly had during the last few days.

  97. A libation to the dead, I suppose, in the manner of the ancients.

  98. Nevertheless he could see that something had occurred in his cousin's household which was beyond his comprehension, for Corona's illness was not alone enough to account for the manner of the Saracinesca.

  99. The only points that were new to him in the figure before him were the outward manner and appearance, and the dress of a gentleman.

  100. Of course it might be a Sir Joshua, their manner at one period was very much alike--yes, it might be a Reynolds, certainly.

  101. Here he was making terms with the enemy; doing it all, too, with imposingly judicial manner that was irresistible.


  102. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    act; action; activity; address; affectation; air; algorithm; angle; appearance; approach; area; aspect; attack; bag; bearing; behavior; blood; brand; breed; carriage; cast; character; clan; color; complexion; comportment; conduct; configuration; conformity; convention; course; custom; demeanor; denomination; deportment; description; designation; doing; doings; effect; eidolon; etiquette; exaggeration; execution; facet; fashion; feather; feature; field; figure; form; forte; genre; genus; gesture; grain; grandiloquence; guise; habit; ilk; image; impression; inflation; kidney; kin; kind; label; light; likeness; line; lineaments; lines; look; lot; make; manner; mannerism; manners; mark; mean; means; method; methodology; metier; mien; mode; mold; mores; mould; moulder; mouldy; movements; nature; number; observance; order; pattern; peculiarity; persuasion; phase; phylum; poise; port; pose; posture; practice; praxis; prescription; presence; procedure; proceeding; process; pursuit; race; reference; regard; resource; respect; rhetoric; ritual; routine; school; seeming; semblance; shallowness; shape; side; simulacrum; slant; sort; speciality; specialization; species; stamp; strain; stripe; style; superficiality; system; tack; tactics; taste; technicality; technique; tenor; thing; tone; touch; tradition; tribe; trick; turn; twist; type; usage; use; variety; vein; view; viewpoint; vocation; way; weakness; wise; wont


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    manner aforesaid; manner following; manner similar; manner that; manner worthy; manners and