How to Use mano a mano in a Sentence

mano a mano

adverb or adjective
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  • Now, Archie gets to face off against the Black Hood mano a mano.
    — Samantha Highfill, PEOPLE.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • And then there was Rafael Viñoly, one of the few architects with the clout to go mano a mano with Childs.
    — Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Kellyanne Conway telling us this morning that that's the way the president likes to do things, mano a mano.
    — Fox News, 12 June 2018
  • So the two men decided to try the table out by arm wrestling each other, mano a mano.
    — Martin E. Comas, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 May 2018
  • That meant Bethel and fellow gunner Chris Moore were mano a mano outside.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Director Adam Wingard sure does love seeing movie icons go mano a mano.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Pioneered by the Vuelta a Espana, the idea is to cut out all the prologue of a stage to launch the race favorites straight into mano a mano battle on a climb.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 24 July 2018
  • In an early scene, the 36-year-old actress strips down in front of her bedroom mirror and just stares at her body, mano a mano, a woman and her flesh cage.
    — Jill Gutowitz, Glamour, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The two go mano a mano for the most part, offering a range of subs for different missions, numbers of passengers and seat layouts.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans go mano a mano in the Russo brothers’ globetrotting 2022 espionage thriller.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022
  • But rarely does the Venn diagram overlap, mano a mano, shoulder to shoulder, apples to apples, stopwatch to stopwatch.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2021
  • So here’s an easy potato salad whose piquancy is assertive enough to go mano a mano with the rich taste of the ribeye, and yet filled with enough indulgent flavors of its own to deserve a place on the plate.
    — Beth Segal, cleveland, 29 June 2020
  • The candidates and parties ought to take back control over these debates, and let the candidates go at it mano a mano without some Beltway referee.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Boxing is a mano a mano competition for primacy, two fighters alone in a ring with a referee.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans go mano a mano as two improbably pretty assassins with no mercy (or relaxed-fit chinos) to spare.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 14 July 2022
  • The two went mano a mano as teens, too, and then faced off against one another in the college ranks, where Spieth was part of a national championship squad at Texas and Thomas was part of a national champion at Alabama.
    — Steve Dimeglio, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Chapter 4 takes the nonstop choreography of mano a mano combat, foot chases, car chases, and gun violence to delirious extremes.
    — Armond White, National Review, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The Protagonist goes mano a mano in a hallway fight that evokes Inception’s fabled corridor sequence by way of its head-spinning choreography.
    — Nicholas Fonseca, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2020

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