How to Use manila in a Sentence

manila

adjective
  • One of the most common ways to cook manila clams is to simply steam them.
    — Mark Yuasa, The Seattle Times, 23 May 2017
  • Hospice kept two kinds on their clients, black three-ring binders for the living and manila folders for the expired.
    — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
  • People filed through a metal detector and had to store their cellphones in manila envelopes to take them into the courtroom.
    — John Eligon, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The officer presented each photo one by one in a manila envelope to a teller in a sequence.
    — oregonlive.com, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The office manager called the file impressive, wagging another thin manila folder, the norm for most donors.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Toddlers played with toy cars; the parents clutched manila envelopes containing their bus tickets and official release orders.
    — Manny Fernandez, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
  • McKinnon then produced a manila folder with classified emails.
    — Patrick Shanley, Billboard, 19 Nov. 2017
  • Ramos-Vasquez carried a manila envelope with his paperwork from ICE.
    — Pamela Ren Larson, azcentral, 13 July 2018
  • With a half-empty Pepsi on his desk and a chunky manila folder full of last-minute to-do’s, Benson wasn’t easing into retirement by any means.
    — Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 23 June 2019
  • It’s produced by Smead, a company that manufactures manila folders.
    — David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Among the standouts are the manila clams with fish sauce, chilies and miso paste with butter served over egg noodles, and the bo ssam, crispy pork belly wrapped in perilla leaves and served with an Asian pear kimchi.
    — Cynthia Durcanin, New York Times, 23 June 2018
  • Until recently, receipts and documentation for purchases were kept in manila folders in offices.
    — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The most straightforward method would be to send the most relevant findings to the press, either through anonymous sources or by simply mailing select reporters a manila envelope containing key documents.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Next to her, a table covered in black cloth was piled with stacks of manila folders—hilariously spoofed that week on Saturday Night Live as a portable pile of plastic prop folders.
    — Suzanna Andrews, The Hive, 19 June 2017
  • Hernandez also noted that photos of potential suspects were presented to tellers one at a time in manila folders and the officer who showed them wasn’t familiar with Allen or who the police suspected was the robber.
    — oregonlive, 26 Sep. 2019
  • In Damaghi’s case, the violations created a stack of manila files so high, with details so complicated, that Judge Padilla was able to get through only one property’s infractions on Tuesday.
    — Ronnie Polaneczky, Philly.com, 10 May 2018

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