How to Use manuscript in a Sentence

manuscript

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  • The library owns the author's original manuscript.
  • When the manuscript is done, the author has all the rights to the book.
    — Henry Devries, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The two men trade manuscripts, which goes poorly and then worse.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 3 July 2023
  • So much so that the manuscript swelled to 1,200 pages long.
    — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
  • In the decades since, the myth around the manuscript has continued to grow.
    — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Or, as the OP of that tweet called it, the Voynich manuscript.
    — WIRED, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Cut to Trent, who finds a note on his manuscript from Ted.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 31 May 2023
  • His collection of medieval manuscripts makes up a large portion of the show.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2023
  • There was a chair and a table, bare except for a stack of manuscript pages.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
  • On the train ride home, Soon discovers the manuscript in his bag.
    — Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Their funders were the Noailles, a wealthy couple who owned the infamous manuscript at the time.
    — Elizabeth Held, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
  • In the 163 years since it was published, some of Darwin’s notes and manuscript leaves have survived.
    — Dana Givens, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Next to it, the manuscript of a Martin Luther King speech in Birmingham.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Susan, just back from the Frankfurt Book Fair, settles down to read the manuscript.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2022
  • The Moravian Museum signed a deal on Aug. 3 to transfer the ownership of the manuscript to his heirs.
    — Karel Janicek, ajc, 3 Dec. 2022
  • Events, such as the invasion of Mexico City by the Spaniards, are found within the manuscript.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • His phone was bugged, and on one occasion in 1974, agents even broke into his apartment and photographed his manuscripts.
    — Jared Marcel Pollen, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
  • However, luck put the manuscript in the hands of an Italian book publisher, who put it out in 1957.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Don't worry though, Sampson reassures us the other manuscripts are fun as well.
    — Sari Hitchins, Parents, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Jamieson is a heraldic artist and manuscript illuminator, and part of the Art Workers' Guild.
    — Town & Country, 5 Apr. 2023
  • One of his plays was produced with fanfare in the 1970s, and many poems were published here and there, but most of the manuscripts were returned with polite rejections.
    — Paul Ford, WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • Reading the manuscript alongside the rest of Min’s work felt, to Kim, like having a conversation with Min in her head over the course of one intense week.
    — Lauren Leblanc, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Even the achievement of the lowest estimation would set a world-record price for a Darwin manuscript.
    — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Raikh had a manuscript for a book called Small Secrets of a Big House, and just needed an illustrator.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Scholars came to him from all over our region seeking knowledge of the important manuscripts that were omitted from the modern Bible.
    — Mohammed Naseehu Ali, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • One of its goals is to identify and develop manuscripts from emerging genre authors.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2023
  • While a portion of these texts have been lost to posterity, several of the palm leaf manuscripts are preserved in libraries in India and Nepal.
    — Hasina Khatib, Allure, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Go out and craft: Take penmanship to the next level with this manuscript workshop at the Getty Center in Brentwood.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Tessier-Lavigne and others were co-authors of the manuscript.
    — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The three men are collectors or dealers who had come into possession of the manuscripts for 1970s Eagles songs and had arranged for them to be sold at auction.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024

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