How to Use man-made in a Sentence

man-made

adjective

• 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
• 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
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• This net zero refers to the situation of equilibrium, where residual CO2 emissions are balanced by an equal amount of CO2 removal, achieved through either natural or man-made methods.
  — Simi Thambi​, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• More than 15 years earlier, Andrés had begun channeling his status as a celebrity chef into tireless work in the world’s most desperate places, hammered by disasters natural and man-made.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• The chemical is naturally occurring and man-made, but it is being found more often in groundwater, according to the Department of Toxic Substances Control.
  — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2024
• Using both natural and man-made materials, as well as harnessing both her weaving and metallurgical fabrication, López crafts one-of-a-kind pieces that traverse the line between fine art and high fashion.
  — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024