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

“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

All the details are carefully tended to, down to the French fries that are cut to order in a hand-operated press mounted on the side of the cart.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2021

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

They tested a 66-pound, general purpose, hand-operated tool.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson