How to Use manuscript in a Sentence

manuscript

noun
  • The library owns the author's original manuscript.
  • The two men trade manuscripts, which goes poorly and then worse.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 3 July 2023
  • Monks preserved manuscripts there.
    — Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • His manuscripts and letters were left abandoned.
    — Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
  • The writers who finish their manuscripts.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • When the manuscript is done, the author has all the rights to the book.
    — Henry Devries, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Nineteen manuscripts were sent out, and soon, the offers began to come in.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • If those elements aren’t there, most manuscripts don’t move forward.
    — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2026
  • No copies of the manuscript have survived.
    — Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
  • There was a chair and a table, bare except for a stack of manuscript pages.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
  • His collection of medieval manuscripts makes up a large portion of the show.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2023
  • At the agency’s height, 8 fee men were employed for 35 manuscripts a week.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • After copy edits are done, your manuscript should be in fine shape.
    — Jennifer Sodini, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In the decades since, the myth around the manuscript has continued to grow.
    — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The manuscripts of course, which arrived as if on a conveyor belt from agents and authors.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Spying a bureau with drawers that might con-tain manuscripts, Fields asked again.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Nearby were manuscripts of nine symphonies that Mozart wrote within two years, in his late teens.
    — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • This is why openings are often the most revised part of a manuscript.
    — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2026
  • On the train ride home, Soon discovers the manuscript in his bag.
    — Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2023
  • One of the oldest manuscripts to tell the tale of King Arthur is heading to auction.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 26 May 2026
  • There’s a manuscript in every writer’s past—or present—that won’t stay quiet.
    — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Where manuscripts written in one culture find readers in another.
    — Julie Finch, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Anyone who has ever stared at a blank page knows that getting from idea to finished manuscript is the hard part.
    — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 21 Apr. 2026
  • One of its goals is to identify and develop manuscripts from emerging genre authors.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Aggie enters her office to see that her manuscript has been tampered with — it’s all marked up in red pen.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Or, as the OP of that tweet called it, the Voynich manuscript.
    — WIRED, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Su-hun passed off the manuscript of Min-hui’s late sister as his latest novel.
    — Kayti Burt, Time, 26 June 2026
  • And three or four unpublished manuscripts sitting on her computer that nobody knew about.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Don't worry though, Sampson reassures us the other manuscripts are fun as well.
    — Sari Hitchins, Parents, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Access to the hall is controlled, and only a portion of manuscripts is shown in rotating cases.
    — Navya Verma, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2026

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