hand-operated

Example Sentences

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The hand-operated ones are too complicated or too fragile to allow for regular lifting and lowering.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

“One of the instructors discovered an old hand-operated lithography press in the basement, but it was all discombobulated,” he recalls.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2022

All around Augusta National, Woods’s name vaulted up the hand-operated scoreboards, sending a buzz through the grounds.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2019

With a hand-operated pump, small RO units can be used in third-world countries, disaster areas, and in lifeboats.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

We could have waited for a car to come around via the hand-operated ferry, but that was some way upriver and would have taken about thirty minutes.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall