: manufactured, created, or constructed by human beings
Examples of man-made in a Sentence
man-made diamonds that were really just glass
the houses in the new development are built around a man-made lake
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The aim is to churn out 3 million meters of fabric each month, whether natural or man-made, solid or print, knit or woven.
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Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 June 2025
Dinant is the perfect combination of natural and man-made beauty.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 31 May 2025
This was a disastrous night for the Wizards, in an epoch of seemingly never-ending disasters — some man-made (see Webber to Kings, above), others a matter of bad luck.
—David Aldridge, New York Times, 13 May 2025
The border is technically man-made: It was drawn on a map by the governments of America and Britain, which controlled Canada until 1867.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 9 May 2025
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Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 June 2025
Dinant is the perfect combination of natural and man-made beauty.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 31 May 2025
This was a disastrous night for the Wizards, in an epoch of seemingly never-ending disasters — some man-made (see Webber to Kings, above), others a matter of bad luck.
—David Aldridge, New York Times, 13 May 2025
The border is technically man-made: It was drawn on a map by the governments of America and Britain, which controlled Canada until 1867.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 9 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for man-made
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“Man-made.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/man-made. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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