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How to use manage in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Manage means to direct or be in charge of. Example: “Even though Jack is a novice, he manages his team with great success.”

Examples of manage by meaning

verbTo direct or be in charge of.

  • Even though Jack is a novice, he manages his team with great success.
  • Interlaken East station is jointly owned with the standard gauge Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon Railway from Bern and Thun and the Swiss Federal Railways metre-gauge Brünig line from Lucerne, but is managed and staffed by the Bernese Oberland group.1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 750

verbTo handle or control (a situation, job).

  • The government managed the inflation very poorly.

verbTo succeed at an attempt in spite of difficulty.

  • He managed to climb the tower.
  • I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
  • Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th).2013 November 30, Paul Davis, “Letters: Say it as simply as possible”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8864

verbTo end up doing something that could or should have been avoided.

  • She somehow managed to sit on the wet paint.
  • Despite that, Swindon should have been level in stoppage time, but Mathieu Baudry somehow managed to put a free header over the crossbar from point-blank range.2020 November 24, PA Media, “Swindon Town 0-1 Lincoln City”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2022

verbTo achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help.

  • It's a tough job, but I'll manage.
  • Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845

verbTo manage to say; to say while fighting back embarrassment, laughter, etc.

  • "That's nice, dear!", she managed.

More sentences with manage

  • I managed to murmur some words of consolation as I left the funeral.From the entry word
  • Under color of law, he managed to bilk taxpayers of millions of dollars.From the entry color
  • Heartless managed the scale the first jump but fell over the second.From the entry jump
  • He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.From the entry beat
  • Although I don't speak Chinese, I managed to talk with the villagers using signs and gestures.From the entry talk
  • He used technical jargon but I managed to catch the drift of his argument.From the entry jargon
  • Smith managed to extend her lead over the second place to half a second.From the entry lead
  • Jose, when he finally managed to go to sleep, had a series of bad dreams.From the entry when
  • We made an attempt to cross the stream, but didn’t manage.From the entry attempt
  • Hello Mrs Miggins. Did we manage to wash ourself this morning?From the entry ourself
  • Hello Mrs Miggins. Did we manage to wash ourselves this morning?From the entry ourselves
  • The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.From the entry body
  • I managed to collar Fred in the office for an hour.From the entry collar
  • I’m not hungry, but I’ll still manage to find room for dessert.From the entry still
  • Prolific creators manage their voluminous content with any of various content management systems.From the entry content
  • The pilot managed to put down in a nearby farm field.From the entry put down
  • With great effort and a big crowbar I managed to lever the beam off the floor.From the entry lever
  • I was surprised when I managed to run the whole way.From the entry way
  • They slashed at him with their swords, but only managed to nick one of his fingers.From the entry slash
  • White was winning positionally, but Black managed to flag him and win.From the entry flag
  • The team managed to squeeze out a win in the final minutes.From the entry squeeze out
  • We managed to squeeze through a crack in the rock wall.From the entry crack
  • In potting the black, he also managed to chip the red off the side cushion.From the entry chip
  • I managed to carve out a niche for myself in the world of investigative journalism.From the entry niche
  • The Chaos Gang managed to get administrator permissions and nuke the entire server in seconds.From the entry nuke
  • She managed to get a week off in March to go to Paris.From the entry get off
  • It was a great month. I managed to sign three major players.From the entry sign
  • She was dubious about my plan at first, but later I managed to persuade her to cooperate.From the entry dubious
  • I managed to stretch my coffee supply a few more days.From the entry stretch

Meaning of manage

  1. verb To direct or be in charge of.
  2. verb To handle or control (a situation, job).
  3. verb To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).

Full definition of manage

Questions about manage in a sentence

How do you use manage in a sentence?
Manage is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Even though Jack is a novice, he manages his team with great success.”
What is a short sentence with manage?
“"That's nice, dear!", she managed.”
What does manage mean?
Manage means to direct or be in charge of.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: manage (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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