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

Here are real-life examples of using "maneuver": Should I perform the Heimlich Maneuver? This maneuver was improvised.

Maneuver Meaning

/məˈnuvɚ/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; (later also) a large training field-exercise of fighting units.

nounAny strategic or cunning action; a stratagem.

Sentence Examples

Should I perform the Heimlich Maneuver?

This maneuver was improvised.

Birds change the shape of their wings to turn and maneuver.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

head play point

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The driver had to ____ the truck through a narrow street safely.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The driver had to ____ the large truck through the narrow streets of the city to reach the delivery point.

Word Origin & History

From Middle French manœuvre (“manipulation, maneuver”) and manouvrer (“to maneuver”), from Old French manovre (“handwork, manual labor”), from Medieval Latin manopera, manuopera (“work done by hand, handwork”), from manu (“by hand”) + operari (“to work”). First recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne (800 AD) to mean "chore, manual task", probably as a calque of the Frankish *handuwerk (“hand-work”). Compare Old English handweorc, Old English handġeweorc, German Handwerk. The verb is a doublet of the verb manure.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"“This,” cried he, “is a manœuvre I have been some time expecting: but Mr. Harrel, though artful and selfish, is by no means deep.”" — 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.v.7:

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