How to Use man-made in a Sentence
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By the 1950s, a motel and man-made lake had been added.
— Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024 -
Well, in fact, all famines in the modern era are man-made.
— Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 30 July 2024 -
Moreover, 78% of them are man-made, and the rest are natural.
— Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 25 Apr. 2023 -
But the agencies are united, the official said, in the view that the virus was not man-made or developed as a bioweapon.
— Joby Warrick, Ellen Nakashima and Shane Harris, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2023 -
Just as was the case for the Utes in the Pac-12, there are complications involved in that, some of them natural, most of them man-made.
— Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 July 2023 -
Recently, the team stumbled upon a strange structure that appeared to be man-made.
— Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023 -
Most of the bed is man-made without heavy factory machinery.
— Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 7 May 2023 -
The ecological devastation that happened in the 1930s across the Great Plains were man-made and provoked.
— Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 5 May 2023 -
There are many forms of antioxidants, both natural and man-made.
— John Dorfman, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023 -
Synthetic, or man-made, vitamin B9 (the type found in supplements) is called folic acid.
— Anthea Levi, Health, 7 Aug. 2024 -
The difference is that synthetics are man-made in a lab using chemicals and solvents.
— Christine Ricciardi, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2024 -
Crews had been removing natural and man-made debris in forests across the country over the past few weeks to prevent such a disaster, Stampoulidis said.
— Paul Tugwell, Fortune Europe, 9 Apr. 2024 -
The singing of the sand – which sounds more like a whistle or roar – is a natural phenomenon that occurs across the world, and can be man-made by visitors who rub or slap the sand between their hands.
— Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 8 Aug. 2023 -
Imagined the disasters, natural and man-made, that the artists who created them went through during their lifetimes.
— Andrew Lavallee, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2023 -
Climate change is man-made and researchers from 67 countries are urging action to address its imminent threats.
— Jessica Roy, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023 -
Latex Latex mattresses are made of a foam material that can be man-made or derived from rubber trees.
— Suzy Forman, SELF, 14 Oct. 2024 -
Still, the Design Museum points out, even Monet’s original is synthetic on some level, as his pond and gardens were man-made.
— Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023 -
Fragrance oils are man-made, such as sandalwood and cedarwood in the Hotel Lobby Signature Candle.
— Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 16 Oct. 2024 -
The approaches are pretty similar, though maybe the consensus that the phenomenon is real and man-made is a tad more widespread here in Germany.
— Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023 -
The killings occurred as Gaza reels from a hunger crisis humanitarian officials say is man-made and due in large part to Israel’s obstruction of aid.
— Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024 -
The Thunderbolt siren first came on the market in the 1950s as a Cold War-era air raid siren and was later reissued as a multipurpose warning system for all kinds of disasters, both natural and man-made.
— Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 May 2024 -
Printmaker and sculptor Lauren Pakradooni senses a tension between organic and man-made forms that is expressed most strongly in her 3D works.
— Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023 -
The irony of this story is that most of California’s beaches are artificial — man-made — and many were much narrower in their original, natural state.
— Elsa Devienne / Made By History, TIME, 31 July 2024 -
Haiti, the epicenter of disasters both natural and man-made, certainly tests this assertion.
— Kathleen Parker, Washington Post, 23 June 2024 -
The impact of both events — natural and man-made — can still be felt globally, economically, and emotionally.
— Staff Report, Sun Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2023 -
Though the Blue Lagoon is technically man-made, it’s fed by geothermal waters that contain the natural compound, silica.
— Austa Somvichian-Clausen, Robb Report, 1 Sep. 2024 -
Evidence, however, suggests what was seen overnight was not a natural phenomenon, but man-made.
— Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 11 Aug. 2023 -
Though the conditions of urban movement are often man-made, the cultural materiality that comes to define the borough’s enclaves is in many ways organic.
— Skylar Mitchell, Essence, 17 June 2024 -
What causes land subsidence Both natural and man-made processes cause land subsidence.
— Lindsey Jacobson, CNBC, 11 July 2024 -
Whereas quartz countertops are man-made, granite is a naturally occurring stone, quarried from the earth, then cut and polished into the countertop material so many know and love.
— Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2024
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