Example Sentences

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It just felt like a kind of writing that was so vivid and so smart and so different from what I had been manufacturing at Time Inc.

From Slate • Sep. 29, 2016

Until recently, one of the economy's brightest spots had been manufacturing, which had powered the recovery from its longest and deepest recession since the 1930s.

From Reuters • Jun. 24, 2011

She could manufacture, then, only for home consumption and all her plants that had been manufacturing for export began producing for her armies.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)

"There!" said Esther, putting the last stitch into a doll she had been manufacturing; "now, take sister, and go away and play."

From The Garies and Their Friends by Webb, Frank J.

The foot-marks of men and boys were evident on the sand below the high-water mark, and the remains of fireplaces, and where the natives had been manufacturing spears, were of recent date.

From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by King, Phillip Parker