Example sentences for: mano

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

  • Marc Simmons writes about a legend of La Mano Negra from the town of Bernalillo, New Mexico.

  • These include: "wake-up call" (46); "above my pay grade" (41); "paralysis by analysis" (2); "new facts on the ground" (1); and "mano a mano " (1), which, as reader Jay Brida pointed out, is always misused (it's Spanish not for "man to man," but "hand to hand").

  • Más vale pájaro en mano que ciento volando , Better a bird in the hand than a hundred flying.

  • There is less passing to set up the open shot, more driving to the hoop and other forms of mano a mano confrontation.

  • Most critics find little resemblance between German director Wolfgang Petersen's "hokey" action flick and his near-classic Das Boot . Harrison Ford's turn as a U.S. president who goes mano a mano with Russian hijackers aboard his official plane is deemed a "14-year-old boy's fantasy of being president" (David Denby, New York ). Reflecting a general weariness with the summer's Hollywood fare, The New Yorker 's Terrence Rafferty writes, "Let's hope they don't get any sillier than this."


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