Sample Sentences formanifold (editor-reviewed)
manifold as in: reasons are manifold
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She understands the range and complexity of the organization's manifold failings.manifold = many and varied
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We acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness. (source)
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When confronted with an increase in altitude, the human body adjusts in manifold ways, from increasing respiration, to changing the pH of the blood, to radically boosting the number of oxygen-carrying red blood cells-a conversion that takes weeks to complete. (source)
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As with his nose for wine, Nathan had an informed palate (a reaction, he said, to a childhood surfeit of soggy kreplach and gefilte fish) and he took obvious joy in making her acquainted with New York's incredible and manifold banquet. (source)
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I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. (source)
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She was charmed by his perfect manners, his manifold interests and breadth of reading, and, though she did not say it in so many words, by the attention he paid to her. (source)
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Mannion gave the chart a quick look on his way to the vent manifold.† (source)
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Now these images manifolded upon each other with great rapidity, at their constant center, the proud, cut chin, and could be driven from his mind's eye only by two others, Jay as he felt he had seen him, the contact after the accident, lying, they had told him, so straight and unblemished beside the car, the dead eyes shining with starlight and the hand still as if ready to seize and wrestle; and as he had last actually seen him, naked on the naked table, a block beneath his nape.† (source)
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I did think thee, for two ordinaries, to be a pretty wise fellow; thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel; it might pass: yet the scarfs and the bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from believing thee a vessel of too great a burden.† (source)
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Sue didn't know what a rich, Popular girl like Chris saw in Nolan, who was like some strange time traveler from the 1950s with his greased hair, zipper-bejeweled black leather jacket, and manifold-bubbling Chevrolet road machine.† (source)
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There I was in an upside-down car, smelling the gas as it ran out of the tank, listening to the tick, tick, tick of the hot engine, thinking: "I sure do hope that gas don't get nowhere near that hot manifold," but all I did about it was try to turn down the radio.† (source)
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The only Latin he knew was the responses of the Mass and the only history the manifold wrongs of Ireland.† (source)
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My own work, with its manifold arrears, took me all day to clear off.† (source)
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I was bound by a solemn promise which I had not yet fulfilled and dared not break, or if I did, what manifold miseries might not impend over me and my devoted family!† (source)
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My situation in life, my connections with the family of de Bourgh, and my relationship to your own, are circumstances highly in my favor; and you should take it into further consideration, that in spite of your manifold attractions, it is by no means certain that another offer of marriage may ever be made you.† (source)
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In the array of funerals, too—whether for the apparel of the dead body, or to typify, by manifold emblematic devices of sable cloth and snowy lawn, the sorrow of the survivors—there was a frequent and characteristic demand for such labour as Hester Prynne could supply.† (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus
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Iko's light filtered down from above, through cables and wires, ducts and manifolds, nuts and bolts. (source)manifolds = a pipe with other lateral outlets connecting other pipes
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He wanders around the crowded room, tasting hors d'oeuvres, sipping wine, looking jovially bewildered, and occasionally Pari has to swoop in and steal him away from a group of mathematicians before he opines on 3-manifolds and Diophantine approximations. (source)manifolds = differential geometry: a smooth, curved space where you can measure distances and angles
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He knew manifolds and intake valves, shocks, struts and pistons, radiators and wheel base adjustments, and he could set from memory the timing on practically every car that had rolled in the shop. (source)manifolds = the part of an engine that is a pipe with other lateral outlets connecting other pipes
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Little in mathematics beyond the elementary level of calculus of variations, and nothing at all about Banach algebra or Riemannian manifolds.
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manifolds = differential geometry: a smooth, curved space where you can measure distances and angles
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