What is "man-made"

Usage examples of "man-made".

I think it was the natural perfection of the egg breaking into the really slobby man-made mess of the all the ciggies and stuff.

Man-made, surely, although its characters were unfamiliar save in their faint hinting at cuneiform shapes.

Nowadays everything was synthetic - polyester, acrylic, olefin - but this sofa was made in the days before man-made fibers became popular.

On the very fringe of that man-made ravine, Harry Vincent and Rufe Dodson were faced by aiming guns.

The blade was a single spine from a conquered warback, much stronger and sharper than any man-made weapon.

Indeed, as the reader will recall, the seismological work carried out at Giza in the early 1990s by the American geophysicist Thomas Dobecki did indicate the presence of a large and apparently man-made hypogeum in the bedrock beneath the Sphinx.

The penstock appeared to be the only man-made structure other than the fences.

That horror was followed by other roars, not crackly like the thunder that accompanied the man-made volts, but hollow, sullen, the smothery tumble of collapsing walls.

He arrived at this after long observation of the construction of termite nests, which excepting perhaps a man-made city are the most formidable edifices in nature.

That is, she thought that she did so then, and rather wondered at the frictionless ease with which it went through: it had simply not occurred to her that in the instant of being made an Unattached Lensman she had been freed automatically from every man-made restraint.

The edge was as abrupt and clean as that of any man-made wall, and the rock face that fell away from it plunged giddyingly into an unseeable blue darkness that seemed to reach up into Pinnatte as he involuntarily drew in a sharp breath.

The only man-made light was at least a dozen miles away, hotels along the Atlantic, their lights seemingly waiting to be untethered so as to float heavenward.

Clearly, the watering space has been man-made, since the stream banks above the watering spot are steep and rocky, while the space where Dorrin and the mare stand slopes gently into the stream and is flanked by rough stone walls on all sides-except for the ramp itself, which rises through the walls to the higher ground by the way station.

Now he and the nurse wheeled the biomembrane toward a man-made opening beyond which, Billy assumed, an elevator waited.

Pan pipes, reed flutes, and birdcalls were infused in the vibrations to combine nature with man-made percussion sounds.