Example sentences for: man-made

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

  • You can take a cruise along the bay — boat trips leave from Harbor Drive, just south of the Maritime Museum — out past the man-made Harbor and Shelter Islands and around the tip of the Coronado peninsula (occupied by a US Naval Air Station — the film Top Gun was set nearby in northern San Diego) to Point Loma out on the Pacific coast.

  • All along the coast you will see anglers in boots casting off from the beaches, and others perched on rocks or man-made promontories.

  • The cave, 54 m (177 ft) long, 15 m (49 ft) high, and 30 m (98 ft) wide, is believed (because of the man-made niches) to have been a nymphaeum, a kind of watery boudoir for the Emperor Tiberius, who retired to Capri in the first century a.d. and built a villa directly above.

  • Man-made Madrid, which quickly assumed the reigns of Spain’s Golden Age, hasn’t stopped growing and asserting itself since.

  • There are at least a dozen examples of man-made ecological disasters that led to famine and widespread devastation, and at least a couple of major civilizations that collapsed under the weight of ecological mismanagement.


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