How to Use manipulate in a Sentence

manipulate

verb

• He's accused of trying to manipulate the price of the stock.
• She knows how to manipulate her parents to get what she wants.
• He felt that he had been manipulated by the people he trusted most.
• The baby is learning to manipulate blocks.
• The program was designed to organize and manipulate large amounts of data.
• He's always been good at manipulating numbers in his head.
• As part of the experiment, students manipulated light and temperature to see how it affected the plants.
• The doctor manipulated my back.
• The mechanical arms are manipulated by a computer.
• The editorial was a blatant attempt to manipulate public opinion.
• This time, the birds had to manipulate a small ball through a hole in the closed box and then use a stick to push the ball to one side of the box.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Feb. 2022
• The goal is for your hair to be less manipulated by putting it in braids.
  — Akili King, Essence, 17 Jan. 2024
• The muscle still tried to manipulate the kneecap to avoid painful grinding in the joint.
  — Longreads, 25 May 2021
• The road coming in there is very, very hard to manipulate.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 21 Feb. 2024
• The kids do not even know the party that is manipulating them. ...
  — NBC News, 22 Apr. 2018
• And then also kind of learning how to manipulate the puck and your speed and things like that.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 7 Oct. 2017
• First, the data must be used to help rather than manipulate.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Nov. 2021
• The shocking ease with which the people around him can manipulate him?
  — Scott Meslow, GQ, 9 Feb. 2018
• Warning: The bowl will be hot, so use a kitchen mitt or a tea towel to manipulate it.
  — Popular Science, 17 Jan. 2020
• Don’t be afraid to do your own thing and to say no to anyone trying to change or manipulate you.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
• The goal was to manipulate daylight and volume, a signature of the firm.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 27 Nov. 2023
• Don’t work with a salesperson who tries to manipulate you just to close a deal.
  — cleveland, 14 Mar. 2020
• In this case, the child had been groomed, manipulated, threatened, and stalked.
  — Josh Magness, miamiherald, 18 Apr. 2018
• This way, the ball of plasma can be manipulated in ways to produce light and noise.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Mar. 2018
• That the teacher who groomed him acted as a parental figure to gain his trust and then manipulate him.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 22 Dec. 2020
• His size and length allow him to manipulate balls that are short hops to go out and stretch and make them short hops as opposed to long hops.
  — Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram, 13 June 2017
• The hope was that such data would be harder to manipulate.
  — New York Times, 13 Mar. 2021
• Someone still needs to be in the driver seat to manipulate the pedals.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 17 Nov. 2020
• The scammers are well practiced on how to manipulate you.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2021
• Don’t let anyone manipulate you, and stay on top of your game on Wednesday.
  — Jodie Layne, Allure, 11 June 2017

Last Updated: 2 May 2024