Sentence examples for is in a manner of from inspiring English sources

But once the poem gets written, it is, in a manner of speaking, none of your business.

Nowadays, it is, in a manner of speaking, always hunting season at the Department of the Interior.

Hill's early criminal life is portrayed in what is probably the best film ever made about the mafia, Goodfellas, and now that he is, in a manner of speaking, a movie star, his old wiseguy manner fairly bursts out of him.

So it is, in a manner of speaking, with Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's onetime military ruler and a former commando, as he prepares to return from exile this Sunday, in the face of stiff and perhaps violent opposition, to marshal his fledgling political party for the general election on May 11.

It is, in a manner of speaking, a form of "one-stop-shopping".

The Statute of Monopolies dominated patent law for centuries; the patent law of Australia is dominated by the Patents Act 1990, which states that one test for if something is patentable is if it is in "a manner of manufacture within the meaning of section 6 of the Statute of Monopolies".

Once again, his assignment was, in a manner of speaking, bank-related.

The collision of their two personalities was, in a manner of speaking, another kind of traffic accident.

Elmore Leonard's answer, entertainingly worked out as narrative, appears to be "possibly so" — or maybe it's "in a manner of speaking".

Whereas most rock types are timeless, in the sense that they come into being today in the same way that they have for aeons, iron formations are, in a manner of speaking, extinct.

Whereas most rock types are timeless, in the sense that they come into being today in the same way that they have for eons, iron formations are, in a manner of speaking, extinct.