How To Use Manlike In A Sentence

We kept Mnemosyne for over two months, and never once did she misconduct herself or behave in an unseamanlike manner. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 26, 1917
He's an effective enough politician but somehow he lacks the statesmanlike gravitas of a world leader.
A mantid is the most humanlike of insects; it has its eyes arranged so that it can see forward, allowing it depth perception. The Killing Kind
These are the same people whose extremely unsportsmanlike behavior can be seen in the following newsclip: George Heymont: More Funding For School Arts Programs, Less For Sports
It was a workmanlike performance. Times, Sunday Times

a man of statesmanlike judgment
The band's workmanlike performance frequently looked like bored autopilot, while each number sounded more generic than the last. Times, Sunday Times
Half a dozen creatures'manlike except for the snakiest necks either had ever seen-came thundering along the corridor, waving spears and shouting. Fortress Of Frost And Fire
His sophomore year, he was unable to pitch due to unsportsmanlike conduct directed towards one of the umpires that had gotten him ejected for the rest of the state tournament.
And he then made a series of more or less statesmanlike appointments to senior positions.
For there to be some purpose to being out on the ocean, well, somehow it feels more seamanlike and very fitting.
To the average western man, who has an aversion to what he considers unsportsmanlike conduct, merely the mention of the word sniper evokes an image of an evil little foreign man sneaking through the jungles of Okinawa picking off the good guys, or of a merciless Viet Cong hiding in a tree waiting for the opportunity to kill a 19-year-old GI from Des Moines or Wichita as he walks patrol at Nha Trang. ONE SHOT-ONE KILL
Completed, the bandage looked not too unworkmanlike, and was cool and comforting to the hot throb of the wound. Success A Novel
And he has told us, too, and always has he told us, to be clean and strong and to walk upright and manlike. These Bones shall Rise Again - Essay by Jack London
West Indies won the inaugural Test 13 years ago, but had to rely on some unsportsmanlike tactics to avoid defeat five years ago.
I knew it was a woman from the bungling, unmanlike way that pistol was laid in the dead hand; the only question I had to answer was _which_ woman -- Fifi, Lady Stavornell, or this wretched little hypocrite. Cleek, the Master Detective
However unworkmanlike the deed, it had been mercifully done. Jude the Obscure
The German was branded a cheat and scratched from that year's drivers' championship for unsportsmanlike conduct.
The manlike vision said to him, ‘Understand, son of man, that the vision refers to the end time’.
I've never seen a player justify unsportsmanlike actions by saying, ‘I'm going to do what I want to and say what I want to.’
He relates this factor to the adult Jesus' antipatriarchal behavior and to the fact that the adult Jesus often acted in a womanlike manner.
Attacked by a monstrous little creature called a "delver", Cara is rescued by a shambling, manlike beast called "the Dimblethum. SFFaudio
As to the kitchen and dining-room, I leave to your vivid imagination to picture their primitiveness, merely observing that nothing was ever more awkward and unworkmanlike than the whole tenement. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
Even after all these years, still one of the most convincely unmanlike aliens in the literature. MIND MELD: Who are the Most Memorable Characters in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror?
They kind of demean Ann Coulter into becoming this unwomanlike thing. Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer: Media Drunk Tank: Officer O'Reilly
No man ever came back to him and said, ‘Sir, you broke my neck in an unworkmanlike manner.’
Really it's a workmanlike conference rather than a dramatic one.
The rocks and soil continued to shift until they had achieved an obscurely manlike semblance.
Hmm. Apes that evolve into something humanlike? Pretty unlikely methinks.
They are a compact, workmanlike side and have two attackers blessed with skill and tremendous pace.
In this case, the court held that the unworkmanlike application of waterproof membranes constituted an ‘event’ on each occasion that it occurred.
This disdain for legality - well concealed behind statesmanlike rhetoric - corresponds directly with a second vice: not telling the public the truth.
In both cases, the rules were changed because the actions of the quarterbacks were judged to be unsportsmanlike.
He was widely respected as a wise and statesmanlike governor.
I believe we are entitled still to look back to those giants of our past as our examples of the ultimate in statesmanlike thought. National Policy1939 Version
Marked Allegro non troppo, the Concert Overture (for which Raff made a piano, 4 hands arrangement) lasts about 10 minutes and is a very superior and craftsmanlike piece of work - hardly typical of the run of the mill celebratory pieces churned out by dozens of kapellmeisters at the time.
It was a workmanlike effort for a man who had just had one week's holiday. Times, Sunday Times
An optional gunter sloop rig makes for a very seamanlike rig, and one ideal for young people to learn to sail with.
The advice to ‘not look back until you've passed the finish line’ was selfish and unsportsmanlike.
Really it's a workmanlike conference rather than a dramatic one.
The normally reserved defense secretary heaped praise on Karzai for reacting in "an extraordinarily statesmanlike way," adding, "Frankly, I think the American government will not forget this kind of statesmanlike response. Defense Secretary Gates: Progress in Afghan war has 'exceeded my expectations'
He was notorious for his unstatesmanlike dirty tricks when dealing with people who failed to toe his line.
The master's voice The writing throughout was workmanlike rather than inspired. Times, Sunday Times
The first he managed in an efficient, workmanlike manner.
Dressed simply in brown unitards, they brought a workmanlike tenacity to their precarious endeavors.
She watched as pupils competed in a pentathlon on the school field, before presenting awards to pupils judged to be either the best sportsperson, most improved sportsperson or most sportsmanlike pupil in their class.
Ikeega was overcome with joy, but he received her demonstrations in manlike fashion, saying: Come, Ikeega, let us eat. The Story of Keesh
They hardly set the world on fire with their workmanlike 1-0 win over Croatia. The Sun
His letters to Mr. Astor, wherein he pours forth the bitterness of his soul, and his seamanlike impatience of what he considers the "lubberly" character and conduct of those around him, are before us, and are amusingly characteristic. Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains
It appears to depict a bison's head and forequarters attached to a humanlike body.
However, he seemed happy to look over my plans and that, coupled with workmanlike builder's hands and nice Italian shoes, made my heart skip.
Plaintiffs enumerated a number of problems, defects and unworkmanlike conditions existing in the modular home constructed by the Defendant under its contract with plaintiffs.
Do mysterious and presumably endangered manlike creatures inhabit swamplands of the southern United States?
She sighed; she looked at her fingers that she described as long and manlike.
THE HUMAN BRAIN The suborder including all the remaining primates is Anthro-poidea (an'throh-poi'dee-uh; "manlike" G), and within this grouping are the monkeys, apes, and man himself. The Human Brain
A workmanlike performance from the Spaniard in the centre of midfield. Times, Sunday Times
Different though Jill and Karen Sprecher may be, they seem to be conducting a womanlike conversation about some of the very same things.
In a police interview, he accepted he had delivered the butt and said he knew his actions were unsportsmanlike.
I had hoped for a little more from the world's greatest tenor, whose performance was workmanlike but hardly inspired.
The Saints were penalized 15 yards for unsportsmanlike conduct for the stunt.
Mr Copeland, in his gentlemanlike way, completely lacerated the Government's position.
Homo erectus and Neanderthals were more manlike than apelike.
His workmanlike versatility and steady output have earned him a reputation as an artistic chameleon.
He was widely respected as a wise and statesmanlike governor.
But, Freeman has not given up on eventually finding a Bigfoot, if only to vindicate that he had truly seen the manlike monster.
Dukinfield are workmanlike rather than spectacular and from the kick-off they displayed their intention of frustrating the home side.
By refraining from criticizing other Democrats he appears more statesmanlike.
It's at best unstatesmanlike and at worst amounts to sabotage-by-soundbite. The Sun
He received a warning for unsportsmanlike conduct, carrying a fine of up to 12,500. Times, Sunday Times
A solid, workmanlike display, they won't be far away at season's end.
Moreover, the court says that the law is well settled ‘that the natural results of negligent and unworkmanlike construction of a building do not constitute an ‘occurrence.’
Now every man has the same coachmanlike look in his belcher and caped coat, and there is no outward difference between my Lord and his groom. The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
The plaintiff claims that R & M performed its services in an unworkmanlike manner and that the company failed to complete several of the contractual requirements.
The senator's own descension into the gutter has also taken a toll on his assistant's statesmanlike image.
For two years the Mongols moved from fortress to fortress with workmanlike efficiency.
It was three in the morning when his unseamanlike conduct precipitated the catastrophe. THE "FRANCIS SPAIGHT"
Bill Clinton was deemed the best performer by 31 percent-evidence that he had succeeded in staging the kind of unruffled, workmanlike performance he needed. FACE TO FACE TO FACE
The converse case, in which we encounter humanlike brains and retinas but find no verbal behavior, is the situation we encounter in the question of animal consciousness.
Pitt therefore based his hopes on the statesmanlike policy of the Czar, who in that month despatched to London one of his confidants, a clever but viewy young man, of frank and engaging manners, Count Novossiltzoff. William Pitt and the Great War
The Players' Choice Award is presented to the one player who displays athletic skill, tenacity and desire while playing with a sportsmanlike attitude.
Often and often I have mused quietly amid scenes where gamblers of various sorts were disporting themselves -- in village inns where solemn yokels played shove-halfpenny with statesmanlike gravity; in sunny Italian streets where lazy loungers played their queer guessing game with beans; in noisy racing-clubs where the tape clicks all day long; on crowded steamboats when Side Lights
I had hoped for a little more from the world's greatest tenor(Sentence dictionary), whose performance was workmanlike but hardly inspired.
It was a workmanlike second half from Carlow, but the margin reflected the gap between the divisions.
It went on to find that the child possessed unreasonable fears for his age, and had unmanlike toilet behavior. The Volokh Conspiracy » Stand Up and Urinate Like a Man:
A few days before, a tempest-struck vessel had appeared off the town: the hull was parched-looking and cracked, the sails rent, and bent in a careless, unseamanlike manner, the shrouds tangled and broken. The Last Man
He is not bright enough to realise how absurd and unstatesmanlike he looks. The Sun
Included in the deal was the four-wheel-drive Musso, a workmanlike offroader which had never really achieved anything.
When there are errors in the code or in the system in general (so called bugs) it is considered as unsportsmanlike if you make use of a bug or don't report it.
He's an effective enough politician but somehow he lacks the statesmanlike gravitas of a world leader.
Champagne seems like a yeomanlike writer, one who can give you a decent story but won't dazzle you. What I bought – 5 December 2007 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
Tabby cats -- the soft, fattish kind, without any manlike qualities, that seemed to be by far the greater proportion of all the men one saw about in buses and in the streets and met in business; tabby cats -- sloppy, old-womanish creatures. This Freedom
Lawson's workmanlike approach to the Hull game was typical of the whole team, who are making far fewer sloppy mistakes than earlier in the campaign.
The Bigfoot stories recounted in these books differ significantly from the usual ‘hairy, manlike being seen running through the woods ‘reports that sometimes pop up in newspapers.’
Dressed simply in brown unitards, they brought a workmanlike tenacity to their precarious endeavors.
In his absence, his new club, under their new coach, made a workmanlike start to the Premiership campaign, but won few plaudits for style.
This is a practice which is abhorrent to clock professionals and considered unworkmanlike.
Why are manlike monsters a persistent part of myth and legend?
Her subsequent findings - among them, that chimps use tools and have humanlike personalities - revolutionized the world of primatology.
I forbear to dwell upon this exhibition of human weakness, for almost any one in Jason's shoes would have been equally regardless of the regulations, and in consequence proportionally unseamanlike. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
Just as he finished a manlike beast appeared in the room.
The Giants on the sideline raced onto the field to celebrate with the kickoff team, drawing an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, but the emotional lift seemed worth it.
‘The chances against anything manlike on Mars are a million to one,’ he said.
fined for unsportsmanlike behavior
They came swarming downstream, transports filled with palace servants and slaves and all their accoutrements and paraphernalia, barges laden with oxen and goats and chickens for the kitchens, gilded and gaily painted vessels bearing cargoes of palace furniture and treasure, of nobles and lesser creatures, all uncomfortably jumbled together in a most unseamanlike fashion. River God
From the fame and memory of him that begot me I have learned both shamefastness and manlike behaviour. Meditations
The workmanlike Campbell deserved a goal for his efforts, and thought he had it four minutes before half time only to see his simple finish ruled out by a linesmen's flag.
He remains the only driver to be disqualified from a championship for unsportsmanlike behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
Yeah, they'll win a lot of games in an efficient, workmanlike fashion.
The Paiute Indians thought that these hoodoos were humanlike creatures turned to stone by an angry coyote god.
A detailed, workmanlike production, just not one that burrows into the darkest recesses of the heart. Times, Sunday Times
This biography is short, sound and workmanlike rather than a sparkling text. Times, Sunday Times
That error, one could infer, demonstrates unworkmanlike performance and led to excessive excavation.
As he tells it, Kwan approached his criminal life with workmanlike discipline.
Yes, playing with an unfair advantage is unsportsmanlike.
an unworkmanlike tool
The prose is workmanlike but plain; the author makes no attempt to spice it up with colorful quotations, amusing anecdotes, or passages of descriptive writing.
But there is no penalty box in golf, no 15-yard penalties for unsportsmanlike conduct.
I remembered Wada's reports on this unseamanlike intimacy of the second mate with the gangsters, and tried to make out the nature of the conversation. CHAPTER XXII
A thick edge on a joint gives an unworkmanlike appearance to the work. Elements of Plumbing
Manhunt requires stealth, tactical skullduggery and unsportsmanlike ambushing. Canada.com
That's funny in itself./lipbr/plib I have copiousness of womanlike friends ... Archive 2009-10-01
The court concludes the defendant breached the contract with the plaintiff by using inappropriate materials and installing the posts and rails in an unworkmanlike manner.
Chinese steward deplore as unseamanlike and perilous. CHAPTER XXXIX
We deprecate your opinion that there has been unsportsmanlike play. Times, Sunday Times
He faces a hefty fine for unsportsmanlike conduct. Times, Sunday Times
She touched him slowly, amazed at how soft he was, something boyish and tender and hard and manlike all at once. SPIDERTOWN
It is not an eminently ideal or sportsmanlike sort of fishing, this "jagging," but it possesses a marvellous enjoyment and fascination for the youth of ten, and older people as well; for a full-grown salmon is a powerful fellow, and his big, fluke-like tail enables him to make a terrific rush when under the influence of terror or when chasing his prey. A Memory Of The Southern Seas 1904
The script was workmanlike at best.
Famed Kenya-born Anthropologist Louis Leakey has evidence that a manlike creature roamed over eastern Africa concurrently with apes 20 million years ago.
You've got to engage with the young, see, however unstatesmanlike the process. The Sun
Throughout the tournament our team was criticized for perceived unsportsmanlike behavior.
His workmanlike approach doesn't lend itself to much praise, but what he's doing this season is remarkable.
Speech so foreign to her ears, unnatural in tone, unmanlike even for a lover The Egoist
The use of rules in an unfair and unsportsmanlike fashion is what makes pilots unhappy with Category I competitions.
He was widely respected as a wise and statesmanlike governor.
A couple more decades of such bipartisan "statesmanlike" - war and deficit spending and we'll have a Depression worse than 1929. Against Afghan War
She is anything but "statesmanlike" (sorry, I don't know what the gender-neutral equivalent for that term would be). Palin: 'The media will never understand'
He laughs — a surprisingly unstatesmanlike chortle. Times, Sunday Times
Only her reputation for "manlike" wisdom allowed her to remain a strong rallying point for the Castilians, which in turn gave her a measure of independence from her husband. Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus
See, all that girly, snively, "she hit me" stuff -- not the pushing and punching -- was unsportsmanlike conduct in Nick's book. The Parenting Post - Parenting.com
But Sistani has so far played a statesmanlike game.
But Clinton settled on Gore, the statesmanlike senator from Tennessee.
The floors were all single and laid in so unworkmanlike manner that I could often see the ground beneath, when the carpets were not on the floor; and they are always taken up in the summer, to make the apartments cooler. The Romance of the Civil War
PUT in a workmanlike performance without really hitting the heights for England. The Sun
It was competent and workmanlike but its shopping list of initiatives recalled his duller budgets. Brown fails to inspire
There is a creature found in traditional Jewish folklore called the golem, an animate humanlike being fashioned completely from inanimate material. Queen's Journal: Latest stories
It is obvious that for those who call a manlike ghost Elohim, there could be no difficulty in conceiving any other Elohim under the same aspect. Evolution of Theology: an Anthropological Study
He used words like 'deprecate' and 'wanton act of violence', he adopted a tone that was selfless and a pose that was statesmanlike, but being noble wasn't enough. Whispers Of Betrayal
Both have been criticised for unsportsmanlike behaviour, but we should know better. Times, Sunday Times
Victory there was workmanlike rather than brilliant. Times, Sunday Times
It gets the info across but also sets a workmanlike and inelegant tone.
By his code of honor, it would been unsportsmanlike to drop out.
At the front of the ship, the figurehead's womanlike face was thrown back in a howl of ecstasy, paws clutching her breasts, wings flared.
That last sentence – with its statesmanlike tone of advocacy – is killingly brilliant, isn't it? So Lewis Hamilton wants a longer national anthem. Has he heard the second verse?
Many of her first attempts were little more than workmanlike folk songs.
The Contractor shall execute and complete the Works, so far as it is legally and physically possible to do so, in a good and workmanlike manner and using materials of good quality so far as they may be reasonably procurable.
an unworkmanlike result
He lauded Mandela for what he described as his statesmanlike conduct on Friday. ANC Daily News Briefing
But the prime minister is also known for unstatesmanlike gaffes and occasionally losing his temper.
Like other primates, these apes exhibit humanlike qualities - from careful parenting to the use of tools.
For he that is angry seems with a kind of grief and close contraction of himself, to turn away from reason; but he that sins through lust, being overcome by pleasure, doth in his very sin bewray a more impotent, and unmanlike disposition. Meditations
a womanlike stone image
Britten betrays his workmanlike approach to composing here: there was no question of waiting for inspiration to descend.
Jimmy -- but you know that boy's way -- gave me the impression that he didn't condemn Jack's craze as unsportsmanlike: merely for being, as he put it, a thought bloodthirstier than any line of sport he himself felt any inclination to follow. Foe-Farrell
It went on to find that the child possessed unreasonable fears for his age, and had “unmanlike” toilet behavior. The Volokh Conspiracy » Stand Up and Urinate Like a Man:
For the said dale, which hight the Black Valley of the Greywethers, hath a bad name for the haunting of unmanlike wights, against which even our men-at-arms might make no defence. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Bill Richardson praised North Korea's "statesmanlike" restraint as he wrapped up a four-day trip to North Korea. South Korea Braces For Possible Attack
He was well-briefed and spoke articulately about Scotland's qualities, although his public speaking set-pieces still lack a statesmanlike stamp.
The defendants allegedly collected down payments from consumers at the time the contracts were signed and then either failed to begin the work or performed work in a shoddy and unworkmanlike manner.
a statesmanlike solution of the present perplexities
The ugly face of national pride has shown itself in the Australian Open, and it's time unsportsmanlike behaviour was eradicated
I also see a lot of penalties for taunting and unsportsmanlike conduct.
Saracens, with a week off from Merit Table games, arranged a pool fixture with Yarnbury firsts and produced a workmanlike performance in difficult conditions to run out comfortable winners.
He's an effective enough politician but somehow he lacks the statesmanlike gravitas of a world leader.
Yoder's style, illustrated in this Anniston Star piece, appears to be workmanlike but not unusual.
In a village deep in the jungles of central Peru, and nowhere else, grows an orchid whose flesh is more manlike than most.
But the supervising centurions kept on barking, barking, barking to strike hard and strike accurately, and as the process proceeded down the line of decuries it became more workmanlike, quicker. Fortune's Favorites
She has been maintained and equipped in a very seamanlike fashion and should bring her new owner many years of boating, and fishing, pleasure.
It was determined that the existing rules, as written, failed to provide the referee with the ability to warn or otherwise discipline a player for unsportsmanlike conduct or dangerous play.
unstatesmanlike procedure
The Australian side turned in a very workmanlike performance.
Harold Macmillan's "wind of change" speech was a gratuitous piece of rhetoric which committed the inexcusably unstatesmanlike folly of arousing vast expectations in advance of what was bound to be an extremely difficult disengagement from empire.
There they discover all they had hoped for and more - dinosaurs, a resident Indian tribe, and strange manlike apes who are the Indians' enemies - and they find themselves embroiled in a struggle for survival amongst the three groups.
the book is a workmanlike job with chronology and bibliography and index
This was more like it - a workmanlike performance embued with no shortage of skill and plenty of heart.
This progressive two-year-old gained a workmanlike success in a maiden race over this course and distance at the beginning of the month and left the impression that he could step up again.
Really it's a workmanlike conference rather than a dramatic one.
Were their offences unsportsmanlike conduct, violent play or, perhaps, a transgression of a philosophical nature? Times, Sunday Times
Haifa dozen crea - tures " manlike except for the snakiest necks either had ever seen " came thundering along the corridor, waving spears and shouting. Fortress Of Frost And Fire
Brent Johnson's playoff poise is similar to his grandfather's, and his workmanlike approach to stopping pucks stems from the barrage of shots his dad fired at him as a teen. USATODAY.com - Pucks stop with Johnson, Lalime
Their officials at their headquarters are almost forced to adopt what can be politely described as a statesmanlike attitude over matters of controversy between different countries. Korea's Fight for Freedom
The Ravens coach shook his fist at the crowd after his team went ahead 24-10, one of the most unsportsmanlike gestures I have ever observed.
There didn't seem to be much to peer at -- a tiny pinpoint of light shining through the glass top of the plot and a squared sheet of chart paper marked by a most unseamanlike series of wavering black lines traced out by a man with a pencil following the track of the tiny moving light. Ice Station Zebra
Although he was happy with the team's workmanlike performance, he reckoned there were enough chances to win this contest.
Though they maintain a workmanlike attention to detail, entries in the seventh edition feel homogenized, impeccably accurate yet flat and lifeless.
That liability is not qualified by any term that work be done with reasonable skill and care or in a competent or workmanlike manner.
In other designs the means of access to the rear ends of the tubes are of a makeshift and unworkmanlike character. Steam, Its Generation and Use
Thanks to some yeomanlike batting from Graeme Swann and Jimmy Anderson, England had reached 356 and the game was, for the time being, safe. Test cricket at its best
The play is workmanlike rather than inspired, and has real difficulty with endings. The Times Literary Supplement
The official flagged him for unsportsmanlike conduct. Houston Chronicle

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