Sample Sentences for
Manila
(editor-reviewed)

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    The shipment originated at Ferlite Farms, a monkey wholesale facility located not far from the city of Manila.  (source)
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    The rope was three-quarter-inch braided natural Manila, of some age and easily strong enough to handle Seth, who weighed 160 pounds a month earlier at the doctor's office.†  (source)
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    When the shelling began that night, as Nathan was hit and stumbled unseen through the darkness into a pig shed, the company received orders to move quickly to the Bataan Peninsula, where they could hide in the jungle, regroup, then march back to retake Manila.†  (source)
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    They were all three-strand manila lines with a bowline knotted into one end, pretty well worn down, too.†  (source)
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    They had Ismael's sketches in a manila portfolio.†  (source)
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    Reports came from informers in Manila, Osaka, Hong Kong and Tokyo.†  (source)
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    The bleeding subsided, leaving her able to fly, along with my siblings, to Manila.†  (source)
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    He puts Manila postmarks on them to fool me.†  (source)
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    I flipped through her part of the manila paper file.†  (source)
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    Old Chao rifled through the manila folders.†  (source)
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    The box held seven hammered-gold rings, each as thin as manila paper, to be worn stacked.†  (source)
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    When Edgar came downstairs the next morning Claude was sitting at the table, manila folders stacked before him.†  (source)
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    We stood there, manila X-ray folders (a requirement for immigration which no one checked) clutched awkwardly, baggage straps crisscrossing our chests, wide-eyed like animals coming off the Ark.†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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    "This just came," Ellie said the next day, walking to the back of the trailer with a thick manila envelope.  (source)
    manila envelope = made from a strong paper with a smooth, yellowish-brown finish
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    Finally one morning, she found a bulky manila envelope and slid the contents—an advance copy of The Sea Shells of the Eastern Seaboard, by Catherine Danielle Clark—into her hands.  (source)
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    He handed me a guidon, a manila-colored book the size of a small spiral notebook that contained all of the "knowledge" we had to memorize in order to make the transition from plebe to new cadet.  (source)
    manila = yellowish
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    When at last they were alone in the bedroom, Cousin Hildebranda bolted the door with a crossbar and from under the straw matting of her bed took out a manila envelope sealed in wax with the emblem of the national telegraph.  (source)
    manila envelope = an envelope made from a strong paper with a smooth yellowish-brown finish
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    Roy's father clicked open his briefcase and removed a thick manila folder.†  (source)
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    Plastic evidence pouches and manila evidence envelopes were spread all around the bedroom.  (source)
    manila = sturdy yellowish
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    He still wore the black ribbon on his hat as a sign of respect for the family, and he took pleasure in showing his affection for Ursula by bringing her exotic gifts: Portuguese sardines, Turkish rose marmalade, and on one occasion a lovely Manila shawl.†  (source)
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    She pulled out a long manila envelope, checked inside, then gingerly put it back again.†  (source)
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    A manila folder on the table beside his bed caught his attention.†  (source)
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    In order to enhance the silence, the tiles had been covered with the Turkish rugs purchased at the World's Fair in Paris; a recent model of a victrola stood next to a stand that held records arranged with care, and in a corner, draped with a Manila shawl, was the piano that Dr. Urbino had not played for many years.†  (source)
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    On the table in a brown manila envelope were one hundred passports to safety.†  (source)
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    He pulled a manila folder out of his briefcase but didn't hand it to me.†  (source)
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    A narrow manila envelope, slightly larger than letter size.†  (source)
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