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Example sentences for: manages

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The issue manages to tear itself away from the lives of the rich and famous only once: An article chronicles the miserable lives of California's "ghosts," the Mexican illegals who live in shacks outside San Diego.
With rain so rare and underground water sources extremely limited you may wonder how Lanzarote manages to survive as an agricultural island.
The cover story lionizes Chuck Close, who manages to paint astonishing Pointillist portraits despite near-total paralysis.
Breathlessly throaty--it only just manages to contain its own melodic exuberance.
So it seems to me to behoove those who believe in the virtues of marriage to be more effusive in their praise when a couple manages to carry off this difficult relationship (especially when it involves children) as well as the McCartneys did.