Example sentences for: hand-operated

How can you use “hand-operated” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Built in 1856 but improved in subsequent years, it is called the last hand-operated kerosene-powered lighthouse in the Bahamas.

  • In the meticulously restored interior, guides in traditional colonial dress explain the memorabilia of the fiery newspaperman, including the hand-operated flatbed printing press on which he turned out his revolutionary newspaper, The Colonial Advocate.

  • In class, her legs cross primly under her desk while her hand snaps up like a Sieg Heil . When she stamps out "Tracy Flick for President" buttons on her hand-operated button press, she sets her big jaw and grits her teeth and bears down as if eliminating her rivals with every squeeze.


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