Sample Sentences for
manifest
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manifest as in:  manifest destiny

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    Her program has been a manifest failure. Everyone is trying to blame someone else for it.
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    The buildings in Rome manifest a high level of architectural sophistication
    manifest = demonstrate
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    The ghost manifests each year on the same day.
    manifests = shows (it's presence)
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    All the things I dread most, all the things I dread for others manifest in such vivid detail I can't help but believe they're real.  (source)
    manifest = clearly seen
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    For these were the hands that had acted on their own, no part of him, here was where the conscience first manifested itself to snatch books, dart off with Job and Ruth and Willie Shakespeare, and now, in the firehouse, these hands seemed gloved with blood.  (source)
    manifested = showed
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    all things are the manifestation of one thing only.  (source)
    manifestation = demonstration
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    This boy is manifestly no son of yours, for your cheek is as dark as mine but the boy is fair and white  (source)
    manifestly = obviously
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    They were lovely, satisfying, maddening manifestations of the miraculous, instruments of pleasure too powerful to be measured, too keen to be endured, and too exquisite to be intended for employment by base, unworthy man.  (source)
    manifestations = demonstrations
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    He seemed to take pleasure in manifesting his fiendish barbarity.  (source)
    manifesting = making obvious
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    discovering his compassion so deep it manifests even in his kindness to snails,  (source)
    manifests = demonstrates itself
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    The mirror, reflecting the goddess and drawing her forth from the august repose of her divine nonmanifestation, is symbolic of the world, the field of the reflected image.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonmanifestation means not and reverses the meaning of manifestation. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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    Then the ghosts started appearing. I guess they'd always been there, but they picked up on my father's agitation and began to manifest. They whispered to him, feeding his suspicions.  (source)
    manifest = show (obviously demonstrate their presence)
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    She seemed more agitated than he had ever seen her, though it manifested itself only in the tension of her movements.  (source)
    manifested = showed
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manifest as in:  ship's manifest

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The inspector asked to see the ship's manifest.
manifest = document listing contents being transported
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    The guns were not on the ship's manifest.
    manifest = official document listing contents being transported
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    I haven't checked the manifest, but I assume you can wait another two weeks for it.  (source)
    manifest = document listing contents being transported
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    Its hold will tuck all our frigates and transports into a little corner — we'll be just a small part of the ship's manifest.  (source)
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    To get all those passenger manifests will take time.  (source)
    manifests = official documents listing passengers being transported
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    The list is pinned up like the manifest from a plane crash, the names of survivors.  (source)
    manifest = document listing passengers being transported
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    Roran said nothing more until Jeod mentioned that the reason Brom and Eragon had visited Teirm was to see if they could use the city's shipping manifests to locate the Ra'zac's lair.  (source)
    manifests = official document listing contents being transported
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    Isham objected, saying such chests had never been seen nor were they listed on the manifest.  (source)
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    Unfortunately, that ethos sometimes manifests itself in confused messaging.†  (source)
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    He wanted the one that, as a sidebar, would provide him with a complete passenger manifest.  (source)
    manifest = document listing passengers being transported
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    Alpha Group quickly found their man in the manifests.†  (source)
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    The first person in the squadron to find out that Doc Daneeka was dead was Sergeant Towser, who had been informed earlier by the man in the control tower that Doc Daneeka's name was down as a passenger on the pilot's manifest McWatt had filed before taking off.  (source)
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    It manifests in my hands, shining to life in little sparks.†  (source)
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    As the driver gunned the car up Windsock Drive, he consulted his passenger manifest and placed a quick call.  (source)
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