How do you use the word "manage" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "manage": Can you manage to complete the manuscript by Friday? Since I got a raise, I can manage.

Manage Meaning

/ˈmæn.ɪd͡ʒ/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo direct or be in charge of.

verbTo handle or control (a situation, job).

Sentence Examples

Can you manage to complete the manuscript by Friday?

Since I got a raise, I can manage.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

care deal cope

Antonyms:

fail

CEFR Practice Quiz

She needs to ____ the team's schedule for the upcoming week carefully.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

He was able to ____ the project successfully, even though he had to deal with many unexpected delays.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der. Proto-Italic *manus Latin manus Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Latin -izāre Vulgar Latin *manizāre Old Italian maneggiareder.? Old French manegebor. Middle English *manage English manage From Early Modern English manage, menage, from Middle English *manage, *menage, from Old French manege (“the handling or training of a horse, horsemanship, riding, maneuvers, proceedings”), probably from Old Italian maneggiare (“to handle, manage, touch, treat”), from Vulgar Latin *manizāre (“handle”), from Latin manus (“hand”) + -izāre (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of manège. Compare typologically English handle; Russian руководи́ть (rukovodítʹ) (< рука́ (ruká)).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Interlaken East station is jointly owned with the standard gauge Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon Railway from Bern and Thun and the Swiss Federal Railways metre-gauge Brünig line from Lucerne, but is managed and staffed by the Bernese Oberland group." — 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 750:

"It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects." — 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

"The moſt vnruly, and the boldeſt boy, That euer warlike weapons menaged […]." — 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

"Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern." — 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

"Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?" — 2013 November 30, Paul Davis, “Letters: Say it as simply as possible”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8864:

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