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How to use manned in a sentence

24 example sentences · adjective

Manned means operated by, performed by, or transporting a person; crewed; piloted; staffed. Example: “We will be replacing some manned tolls with high-speed device readers.”

More sentences with manned

  • We will be replacing some manned tolls with high-speed device readers.From the entry toll
  • For now, it is technically impossible to have a manned flight to Mercury.From the entry technically
  • For now, it is technologically impossible to have a manned flight to Mercury.From the entry technologically
  • The ship was manned with a small crew.From the entry man
  • My point does not concern the principle of charity or whether Hickman has straw manned postmodernism.2021, John T. Lysaker, Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought, University of Chicago Press, page 39. From the entry straw man
  • My boys have the south gate manned, and they'll be stepping aside any minute now.”2018, Xavier P. Hunter, House Rules: a LitRPG novel, Magical Scrivener Press, →ISBN. From the entry necro
  • In the hard glare of the Searchlight, which had been manned by Seaman 2nd class Evans W.2012, Charles Lockwood, Tragedy at Honda, page 65. From the entry unearthly
  • He added: “That is why I'm in favour of manned, or should I say ‘personed’, space flight.”2010 August 9, Stephen Hawking, quotee, “Stephen Hawking: mankind must colonise space or die out”, in The Guardian. From the entry personed
  • At least four approved ring life buoys shall be placed on each manned platform.1981, Compilation of Regulations Related to Mineral Resource Activities. From the entry life buoy
  • It's the opening of a new era in the history of manned space flight.November 2, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson, 5:32 from the start, in The President: November 1968. MP902 (1280x720), Lyndon Baines Johnson…. From the entry solar system
  • This national army or militia was called the fyrd; the shipfyrd manned the navy.1965, James Westfall Thompson, Edgar Nathaniel Johnson, An introduction to medieval Europe. From the entry shipfyrd
  • The avoidance of collisions by manned vehicles moving at these 'translumic' speeds presents a formidable problem.1965, William F. Hilton, Manned Satellites, Their Achievements and Potentialities, page 131. From the entry translumic
  • All these level crossings have hand-operated gates, and are manned by crossing-keepers.1951 September, B. D. J. Walsh, “The Sudbury and Haverhill Line, Eastern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 619. From the entry crossing keeper
  • Then he heard the wailing cry of the forehander as the crowd manned the braces.1940, Roland Barker, Jonah's Ark, page 59. From the entry forehander
  • The plushly armchaired reception area and busy switchboard was manned, with laxity and a cut-glass accent, by the Hon.2013, Marilyn Messik, Relatively Strange, page 261. From the entry armchaired
  • The Israelis manned their fighting positions, certain they would be facing, at most, a few dozen heliborne commandos.1987, Jerry Asher, Eric M Hammel, Duel for the Golan. From the entry heliborne
  • County highway crews manned their trucks to salt down the roads, but the snowfall was predited to continue until tonight.1967 February 6, “Chicago Slapped Again: Snowstorm, Bitter Cold Hit Area”, in Warren Times-Mirror and Observer, volume 1, number 271…. From the entry salt down
  • “Personnel Recovery Task Force (PRTF) Pilots, maintainers and support personnel donned their vests, helmets and M-4 rifles and manned defensive fighting positions.”2021 October 14, Oren Liebermann, “CENTCOM disputes Air Force account of attempted hijacking at Kabul airport during Afghanistan…. From the entry man
  • The Land Rover manned by our gilly (guide) waited where the A-Elv River joined the sea at the head of the fjord.2010, John W. Stevens, “Atlantic Salmon from Hell and Back”, in Memorable Fish and Fishermen, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN. From the entry gillie
  • It was manned entirely by negroes.1954, Ian Fleming, “The Jamaica Version”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 174. From the entry wattle-and-daub
  • Special lamps were provided for working during the blackout, and an anti-aircraft gun, manned by the R.A.O.C., was mounted on the coal depot line.1947 January and February, “Wartime Traffic at Tanfield, L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 47. From the entry anti-aircraft
  • Ultraswift high-flying aircraft, vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, and manned spacecraft, entering the atmosphere share several types of control problems which NASA is continuing to investigate.1961, United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Semiannual Report to the Congress, Volume, The Administration, page 103. From the entry ultraswift
  • ARNOLD KENT and MARINA GOYA, interpretative dancers are respectively a stowaway and a sailorette on a sailboat which, strangely enough, is manned by young, romantic gals.1943 February 27, The Billboard, page 104. From the entry fisherette
  • Few laymen realize the enormous amount of work which is necessary to convert a newly commissioned ship manned with raw recruits into a wellfound ship manned with a trained crew.1914, Personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps, page 304. From the entry wellfound

Meaning of manned

  1. adjective Operated by, performed by, or transporting a person; crewed; piloted; staffed.

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Questions about manned in a sentence

How do you use manned in a sentence?
Manned is used as an adjective. For example: “We will be replacing some manned tolls with high-speed device readers.”
What is a short sentence with manned?
“It was manned entirely by negroes.”
What does manned mean?
Manned means operated by, performed by, or transporting a person; crewed; piloted; staffed.

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