Example sentences for: mano

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

  • One member remembered it by the name of La Mano Pachona without knowing its origin, but the fear of it was well remembered by all.

  • 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").

  • More of an obstacle still is the relationship between father and son, which has been poisoned by the death of the young man's mother under circumstances that Lee keeps cunningly under wraps until the movie's galvanic climax, in which the two men go mano a mano on the basketball court.

  • A young woman remembers, “My grandfather used to tell us when we were little, about La Mano Negra, that appeared every time little kids were bad and that if we weren’t good and helped him carry in wood and water and feed the animals ‘la mano negra’ would come for us at night.

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


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