Daily life
maneuver
handle or move skillfully
To maneuver something is to move or handle it carefully and skillfully, especially in a difficult space.
Hear it in real life
How did you get the bike upstairs?
I managed to maneuver it around the corners.
It took me a few minutes to maneuver the sofa through the doorway.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: I maneuvered with my car into the narrow space.
Say: I maneuvered my car into the narrow space.
Use the vehicle as the object of “maneuver”; do not use “with” before it in this meaning.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
maneuver something; maneuver something into position
Your turn: say it out loud
It took me a few minutes to maneuver the sofa through the doorway.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
maneuver
handle or move skillfully
“It took me a few minutes to maneuver the sofa through the doorway.”
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