How to Use manuscript in a Sentence

manuscript

noun
  • The library owns the author's original manuscript.
  • When the manuscript is done, the author has all the rights to the book.
    Henry Devries, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The two men trade manuscripts, which goes poorly and then worse.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 3 July 2023
  • So much so that the manuscript swelled to 1,200 pages long.
    Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
  • In the decades since, the myth around the manuscript has continued to grow.
    Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Or, as the OP of that tweet called it, the Voynich manuscript.
    WIRED, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Cut to Trent, who finds a note on his manuscript from Ted.
    Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 31 May 2023
  • His collection of medieval manuscripts makes up a large portion of the show.
    Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2023
  • There was a chair and a table, bare except for a stack of manuscript pages.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
  • On the train ride home, Soon discovers the manuscript in his bag.
    Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Their funders were the Noailles, a wealthy couple who owned the infamous manuscript at the time.
    Elizabeth Held, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
  • In the 163 years since it was published, some of Darwin’s notes and manuscript leaves have survived.
    Dana Givens, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Next to it, the manuscript of a Martin Luther King speech in Birmingham.
    Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Susan, just back from the Frankfurt Book Fair, settles down to read the manuscript.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2022
  • The Moravian Museum signed a deal on Aug. 3 to transfer the ownership of the manuscript to his heirs.
    Karel Janicek, ajc, 3 Dec. 2022
  • Events, such as the invasion of Mexico City by the Spaniards, are found within the manuscript.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • His phone was bugged, and on one occasion in 1974, agents even broke into his apartment and photographed his manuscripts.
    Jared Marcel Pollen, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
  • However, luck put the manuscript in the hands of an Italian book publisher, who put it out in 1957.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Don't worry though, Sampson reassures us the other manuscripts are fun as well.
    Sari Hitchins, Parents, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Jamieson is a heraldic artist and manuscript illuminator, and part of the Art Workers' Guild.
    Town & Country, 5 Apr. 2023
  • One of his plays was produced with fanfare in the 1970s, and many poems were published here and there, but most of the manuscripts were returned with polite rejections.
    Paul Ford, WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • Reading the manuscript alongside the rest of Min’s work felt, to Kim, like having a conversation with Min in her head over the course of one intense week.
    Lauren Leblanc, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Even the achievement of the lowest estimation would set a world-record price for a Darwin manuscript.
    Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Raikh had a manuscript for a book called Small Secrets of a Big House, and just needed an illustrator.
    Catherine Garcia, The Week, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Scholars came to him from all over our region seeking knowledge of the important manuscripts that were omitted from the modern Bible.
    Mohammed Naseehu Ali, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • One of its goals is to identify and develop manuscripts from emerging genre authors.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2023
  • While a portion of these texts have been lost to posterity, several of the palm leaf manuscripts are preserved in libraries in India and Nepal.
    Hasina Khatib, Allure, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Go out and craft: Take penmanship to the next level with this manuscript workshop at the Getty Center in Brentwood.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Tessier-Lavigne and others were co-authors of the manuscript.
    Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The three men are collectors or dealers who had come into possession of the manuscripts for 1970s Eagles songs and had arranged for them to be sold at auction.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024

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