Sentence examples for manned from inspiring English sources
The word 'manned' is correct and usable in written English
It is most commonly used in the past tense, for example "The mission was manned by two astronauts". You can also use it in the present tense, for example "The mission is manned by two astronauts".
A booth manned by the religious police ensures that no visitors step out of line.
Officers manned major junctions and trouble spots and handed out a total of 13,818 fines – with 4,085 going to cyclists.
It's in these same derelict steelworks that the six redundant workers, who once manned a strip mill, end up rehearsing their strip routine.
Hence the decision to return to the ship outside the normal search season in an expedition manned by Canadian navy ice divers and Parks Canada marine archaeologists.
In the great battles of personal liberty and sexual freedom from the 1960s onwards it was leading figures in Fine Gael who manned the barricades for traditional Catholicism as they tried to hold back the tide of liberalism surging in from Britain, Europe and North America.
We became registered, built a YouTube channel, wrote how-to guides and started up an e-helpdesk, manned by volunteers, giving families urgent and personal advice.
Security guards manned the archway in front of the square blocking access while a makeshift sign pinned to a board outlined the legal situation.
As the evening wore on, the crowd gathered in front of the Los Angeles police department headquarters became increasingly agitated, throwing rocks and traffic cones and rattling the metal fences manned by officers in riot gear.
On the drive from the airport, I passed no fewer than six police or military checkpoints, all manned by heavily armed men.
What irony if China, which takes pride in its own recent manned space flights, were to find its ambitions to put a man on the moon and eventually to build a space station set back someday by the still ricocheting rubble from its own irresponsible action.In this section The greening of America How to honour Hrant A new arms race in space?
China still has a smaller manned-space-flight infrastructure than Russia has.
