How to Use manipulate in a Sentence

manipulate

verb
Definition of manipulatenext
Synonyms for manipulatenext
  • He's accused of trying to manipulate the price of the stock.
  • She knows how to manipulate her parents to get what she wants.
  • He felt that he had been manipulated by the people he trusted most.
  • The baby is learning to manipulate blocks.
  • The program was designed to organize and manipulate large amounts of data.
  • He's always been good at manipulating numbers in his head.
  • As part of the experiment, students manipulated light and temperature to see how it affected the plants.
  • The doctor manipulated my back.
  • The mechanical arms are manipulated by a computer.
  • The editorial was a blatant attempt to manipulate public opinion.
  • The goal is for your hair to be less manipulated by putting it in braids.
    — Akili King, Essence, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The muscle still tried to manipulate the kneecap to avoid painful grinding in the joint.
    — Longreads, 25 May 2021
  • This time, the birds had to manipulate a small ball through a hole in the closed box and then use a stick to push the ball to one side of the box.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The shocking ease with which the people around him can manipulate him?
    — Scott Meslow, GQ, 9 Feb. 2018
  • And then also kind of learning how to manipulate the puck and your speed and things like that.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 7 Oct. 2017
  • The kids do not even know the party that is manipulating them. ...
    — NBC News, 22 Apr. 2018
  • First, the data must be used to help rather than manipulate.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The hope was that such data would be harder to manipulate.
    — New York Times, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The scammers are well practiced on how to manipulate you.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2021
  • Someone still needs to be in the driver seat to manipulate the pedals.
    — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Don’t work with a salesperson who tries to manipulate you just to close a deal.
    — cleveland, 14 Mar. 2020
  • That the teacher who groomed him acted as a parental figure to gain his trust and then manipulate him.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 22 Dec. 2020
  • The gates manipulate the qubits and represent time steps as well.
    — Nikolai Sinitsyn, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2020
  • This way, the ball of plasma can be manipulated in ways to produce light and noise.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Overall this knife was very comfortable to manipulate and take in and out of the pocket.
    — Matt Foster, Outdoor Life, 31 Jan. 2020
  • His size and length allow him to manipulate balls that are short hops to go out and stretch and make them short hops as opposed to long hops.
    — Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram, 13 June 2017
  • So there are all these ways companies can manipulate who can see a post.
    — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
  • And not one person was able to manipulate the process in any way to be a majority voice.
    — Lori Higgins, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2018
  • So figuring out how to manipulate it in a way that appeared nimble was a huge part of the challenge.
    — Nojan Aminosharei, Men's Health, 16 May 2022
  • Jones is a pinpoint thrower who can manipulate the pocket and find targets down the field.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2021

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