hand-operated
Example Sentences
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The hand-operated ones are too complicated or too fragile to allow for regular lifting and lowering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
The shrimp are the work of Amedeo Capelli, a self-taught carpenter and maker of hand-operated automatons, or moving devices.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
“One of the instructors discovered an old hand-operated lithography press in the basement, but it was all discombobulated,” he recalls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2022
With a hand-operated pump, small RO units can be used in third-world countries, disaster areas, and in lifeboats.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
We could have waited for a car to come around via the hand-operated ferry, but that was some way upriver and would have taken about thirty minutes.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
