Sentence examples for manned it from inspiring English sources
Despite the problems with the weapon, and its tendency to injure or even kill those who manned it, the government attempted to portray it in a positive light, issuing special instructions in the autumn of 1942 which stated that the Smith Gun was a "simple, powerful and accurate weapon which, if properly handled, will add greatly to the firepower of the Home Guard".
The buck stops with the absent owner and his pitiful CEO, who have put in place a structure that simply doesn't work, and then manned it with buffoons.
Near the village there was a fake checkpoint run by the Islamic State of Iraq, according to the gunmen who manned it.
"When we approached the last of our checkpoints, the Interior Ministry troops who manned it said the road we were to go on was under Chechen control," recalled Mr. Kurakin, a 35-year-old commander of a platoon.
A booth run by a group of antic amateurs was called Lost Cat Hot Tamale Co., and the people who manned it wore T-shirts that said on the back, "Here, kitty, kitty. .
A booth run by a group of antic amateurs was called Lost Cat Hot Tamale Co., and the people who manned it wore T-shirts that said on the back, "Here, kitty, kitty... .. (When I asked one of them if he thought that there truly ever was cat meat in a hot tamale, he said, with a straight face, "You need a binder").
