How to Use man power in a Sentence

man power

noun

• The waste of man power—both by the restrainers and the one restrained.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
• Food Banks have turned it away due to not having the man power to unload it.
  — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 10 May 2018
• This would also force the British to expend man power and resources in fighting the Spanish.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 2 July 2018
• Boston evened the score on McAvoy’s slap shot with a two-man power play advantage with 2:46 remaining in the first.
  — George Richards, Sun Sentinel, 24 Nov. 2022
• Crews arrived on scene and eventually called a second-alarm for man power.
  — Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• Many of those kits sit unprocessed, with officials pleading poverty or a shortage of man power.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 16 Apr. 2018
• Lidstrom, the most polite person I’ve ever met, pointed out their two-man power play had only lasted 2 seconds.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2018
• Witnesses to harassment give men power through silence, and our tendency to ignore and keep walking does just that.
  — Maureen Sherry, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2017
• Coach John Harbaugh said opponents have committed extra man power to stopping the running attack but acknowledged his team has to do better.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 23 Sep. 2022
• Montreal had a two-man power-play advantage for 69 seconds midway into the second — immediately after Rask made a pad stop on Drouin's clean break in — but Boston limited the Canadiens' shots to mostly lower-percentage chances from the outside.
  — USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024