Example Sentences

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The Romanian personnel had played a crucial role in securing key installations, including the airport, and had manned checkpoints on the outskirts of Goma, until the latest rebel assault.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2025

The Georgian guards who had manned its perimeter were gone, replaced by U.S.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2021

When the soldier who had manned the M249 SA W in Ayala’s convoy learned what had happened he began to vomit.

From Salon • Jan. 27, 2013

Boston's offseason acquisition of third baseman Adrian Beltre will limit Lowell's time at the position he had manned for the Red Sox since 2006.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2010

Our cousins who we called cousins but weren’t really cousins had manned the restaurant while we’d been at the council meeting.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya