manner

Example Sentences

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Giving putts is part of playing in a gentlemanly manner.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

"Instead, his manner throughout the evaluation, back then, as well as earlier in the year, was almost like we were having lunch at his country club. There was no sense of alarm or distress."

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

Mike Piazza, the slugger expensively coached from boyhood in the modern manner, saw “the silver spoons of his youth smelted into the first of ten consecutive Silver Slugger awards.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The only way to do that is by putting one out in the manner he’d like to see more often — starting by making the whole crowd stand up too.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

“No,”—replied Emma—quite confirmed by the depressed manner in which he still spoke—“I should like to take another turn. Mr. Perry is not gone.”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen