How to Use manipulate in a Sentence

manipulate

verb
Definition of manipulatenext
Synonyms for manipulatenext
  • 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
  • Mimicry was just one facet of how Grande manipulated her voice over the course of the episode.
    — Esther Zuckerman, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2024
  • 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 first half of the 2010s explored our fears of being lied to, watched and manipulated.
    — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 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
  • But the same tools can be used to try and manipulate voters at key moments.
    — Fahad Shah, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2024
  • In this case, the child had been groomed, manipulated, threatened, and stalked.
    — Josh Magness, miamiherald, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The committee can lay bare the black heart of hate groups—their thirst for blood, and their attempts to manipulate the public.
    — Maya Wiley, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2021
  • This way, the ball of plasma can be manipulated in ways to produce light and noise.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Mar. 2018
  • But concerns about its potential to serve as a tool for Beijing to manipulate and spy on Americans pre-date Trump’s first presidency.
    — Sally Ho, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2025
  • That has raised concerns about how it could be used to manipulate public perception given its owner’s ties to the Trump administration.
    — Thomas Beaumont, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025

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