How to Use man-made in a Sentence

man-made

adjective
  • 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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