Sentence examples for sometimes he managed from inspiring English sources

He said that success meant "guessing right 60% of the time," but there was more to it than that, because sometimes he managed to lose money even when he guessed right.

For the remainder of his life, except for money inherited from his mother and aunt, Peirce was often in dire financial straits; sometimes he managed to survive only because of the overt or covert charity of relatives or friends, for example that of his old friend William James.

Sometimes, he manages to squeeze two Forward-related digs into a single speech.

Sometimes he manages both at once, as he did with a television series called "The Kingdom".

He fought for his life in a chaos of jerks and gulps, sometimes taking in air and sometimes water, until finally he managed to graze his fingers on the rough stone edge of the pool and he gave in to sobbing as quietly as possible, swallowing his despair, knowing that if he made too much noise his father would do something really violent and unkind.

The results, though, were sometimes wonderful, especially when he managed to break his own mold.

Investors may have been duped because Mr. Madoff sent detailed brokerage statements to investors whose money he managed, sometimes reporting hundreds of individual stock trades per month.

Abe Kōbō was notable among modern writers in that he managed, sometimes by resorting to avant-garde techniques, to transcend the particular condition of being Japanese and to create universal myths of suffering humanity in such a work as Suna no onna (1962; The Woman in the Dunes).

It also may have been that constellations are sometimes named for the astronomers who discovered them, the way a medical researcher's name is sometimes attached to the disease he managed to isolate.

Sometimes she manages and sometimes she fails.

And sometimes she manages by herself.