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

Two previous countdown attempts were marred by balky fans and a large hand-operated valve that workers mistakenly left closed at the pad last week.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 14, 2022

“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

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

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson