Sentence examples for maneuvering themselves from inspiring English sources

Is the feature a quaint leftover from the days when women wore petticoats, and maneuvering themselves over the high bar would have been a challenge?

It is as if at times they are maneuvering themselves around unseen objects, causing them to skitter back, slide to the floor and whirl their legs fretfully.

Indeed, the fact that GFG's largest investors led this round — which is significantly smaller than past investments in GFG companies — suggests that an IPO is close and that existing shareholders are maneuvering themselves and their investments in preparation for that exit.

It seems voters resent governors, even popular ones, who maneuver themselves into the Senate without an election.

They try to dock on the kitchen counter, then on a lounge chair, and finally maneuver themselves onto the bed.

The comptroller and her fellow politicians are constantly maneuvering — or trying to maneuver —  themselves into the favor of at least 51 percent of the voters.

As wives attempted to maneuver themselves and their sons into positions of power, the harem became an arena in which rival factions fought for ascendancy at the court.

They maneuvered themselves into shapes in which, for example, Adler-Arieli held Weinert's leg while Weinert supported Adler-Arieli's body, and so forth, through many iterations.

Both craft operate under their own battery power and can maneuver themselves onto the hatches of sunken submarines to rescue the crew.

They wound up, he reveals in "Double Vision," in St .Petersburg, Florida — survivors who had the wit and the wherewithal to maneuver themselves and their only child out of Hitler's reach.

Before we knew it, Yerushalmy was frozen upstage, and Crousillat, Kmett'Pendry, and Lifson had somehow maneuvered themselves into a grouping on the floor in front of her: three odd shapes, arms and torsos and legs arranged unexpectedly — living Henry Moore sculptures.