How to Use Manhattan in a Sentence
Manhattan
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Many of those demonstrations were inspired by the events at the Manhattan school last semester.
—Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2024
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After the first encampment on the Manhattan campus was cleared, a second one grew.
—Phil Helsel, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2024
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But whiskey, too, has taken a back seat in cocktails like the manhattan and the Boulevardier.
—Robert Simonson, New York Times, 5 July 2018
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More than a million and a half people live on the island of Manhattan.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 27 June 2024
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My 48-year-old horn came back from the repair shop in Midtown Manhattan a week later.
—Harvey Dickson, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
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At this rooftop and terrace bar and restaurant on the Hudson in Jersey City, don’t order a manhattan; just drink in the view.
—Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2018
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Farrow also had a walk-on part as a party guest in Woody Allen’s Manhattan (1979).
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Jan. 2024
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Although the store spans only 290 square feet, the design nods to grand Manhattan apartment blocks.
—Violet Goldstone, WWD, 27 June 2024
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The cocktail list will focus on classics like the Negroni, the manhattan and the old-fashioned, and variations on those drinks.
—Robert Simonson, New York Times, 15 May 2017
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After four years, the pair decided to move to Manhattan, but the design bug only grew stronger.
—Rachel Gallaher, Robb Report, 23 Mar. 2024
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Charges in this case were brought by the Manhattan district attorney.
—CBS News, 2 June 2024
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Still, if the Manhattan Project was a cautionary tale, there was disagreement about what lesson to draw from it.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
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Still, the drink, a perfect manhattan, was accepted, and the two talked about their shared interest in design.
—Tammy La Gorce, New York Times, 19 May 2017
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But the menu here was largely devoted to classic cocktails — everything from a manhattan to a gin fizz to a whisky sour.
—Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 17 Oct. 2019
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Ani works in a Manhattan strip club; one night her boss summons her to meet with a client who has asked specifically for a Russian-speaker.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 22 May 2024
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The DealBook stage sits in front of floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Manhattan.
—Mia Sato, The Verge, 30 Nov. 2023
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At Quique, which the brothers opened in December, Aguilar brings some of those dishes to Manhattan while turning up the heat, the elegance, the artfulness.
—Shauna Lyon, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024
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The staff at Kernel, a vegan takeout joint in Manhattan, have it better than many fast-food workers.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2024
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The episode comes as Cohen is expected to play a prominent role in a Manhattan criminal case against Trump.
—Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
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The lawsuit alleges that Trump claimed his Trump Tower apartment in Manhattan was three times its actual size and worth $327 million.
—Tori Otten, The New Republic, 2 Oct. 2023
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The garden is situated in the Little Italy section of lower Manhattan, that sorely lacks open space, let alone green open space.
—Steven Hyman, New York Daily News, 10 July 2024
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There is no bidet or fancy electronics in the toilet, but the shower and bath are each located in their own rooms larger than most Manhattan apartments.
—Nicolas Stecher, Robb Report, 16 Feb. 2024
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The New York City landmark in the center of Manhattan will be converted into luxury housing.
—Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
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The two men regularly convened at night to traverse Manhattan with their cameras.
—Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
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The setting is in the guts of a high-volume midtown Manhattan restaurant called The Grill — a hectic pressure cooker where personal and professional concerns come to a boil.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024
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In designing their Manhattan home, a couple took cues from their wide-ranging collection.
—Travis Diehl Dean Kaufman, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024
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In designing their Manhattan loft, a couple took cues from their wide-ranging collection.
—New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
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Friday’s ruling comes as Manhattan prosecutors are set to try Mr. Trump on criminal charges late next month.
—Ben Protess, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
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Get a glass of that, or any of the high-wire-act cocktails that always, beguilingly, seem to work—a mole mezcal manhattan; a mushroom old-fashioned; drinks with kale or celery juice—and then head outside to the expansive courtyard.
—Esquire Editors, Esquire, 25 May 2017
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This human riffed on a manhattan and named it a confused human, a dry and malty brew: Jack Daniel’s, Cinzano sweet vermouth, lemonade, cherry syrup and a lemon slice immaculately sectioned by the robot.
—WSJ, 3 Oct. 2018
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