Example sentences for: manuscripts

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

  • Constantinople was taken by Crusader forces in 1204, and they stripped the city of manyof its finest treasures — which now grace the public buildings of Venice — although a large consignment of books and manuscripts was transferred to the monastery at Patmos before the city fell.

  • Over the next decade, I made my biographer's rounds, like the postman deterred neither by sleet nor snow--nor by occasional emanations of reticence or frostiness from my subject--from the routine (often a fascinating routine) of poring over his unpublished manuscripts in the rare book and manuscript division of the University of Chicago Library; lugging my laptop all over America in quest of high-school classmates, cousins, friends, and lovers of my famously peripatetic subject; driving Avis rental cars into the remotest suburbs of Los Angeles and flying into Buffalo, N.Y., in pursuit of letters in private hands.

  • ' Before the invention of the printing press, manuscripts had to be copied by hand.

  • But when the manuscripts begin to arrive, the editorial process kicks into action, and the production team starts crafting the first accepted articles, it's hard to contain the excitement.

  • You will find portraits, manuscripts, and personal effects from all three.


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