How to use machinery in a sentence

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• My grandfather worked in a mill. He operated machinery, did maintenance, and drove forklifts.From the entry mill
• The house is in order; the machinery is out of order.From the entry order
• What am I supposed to do with this neolithic piece of machinery?From the entry neolithic
• The machinery, when activated, would create atemporal bubbles wherein nothing was affected by the flow of time.From the entry atemporal
• With its asbestos roofing and unshielded machinery, the factory was a multihazard environment.From the entry multihazard
• Bits of old machinery were lying about.From the entry about
• In machinery, a sliding piece is said to overrun its bearing when its forward end goes beyond it.From the entry overrun
• The accountant calculated the annual depreciation of the machinery.From the entry depreciation
• The noise of machinery intruded on an otherwise quiet morning.From the entry intrude
• You shouldn't operate heavy machinery without a licence.From the entry heavy machinery
• Renewal theory may be used to calculate the best strategy for replacing worn-out machinery, or to compare the long-term benefits of different insurance policies.From the entry renewal theory
• Yesterday he helped us get the machinery oiled up, and then last night he went to the hotel bar and got oiled up himself.From the entry oiled up
• Even octopuses without stylets almost certainly retain the molecular machinery necessary to build them.2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 120. From the entry octopus
• The Erewhonian conflation of mechanical energy and capitalist value extends to their attitude toward machinery.2015, Sarah C Alexander, Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable, page 91. From the entry Erewhonian
• This requires bulky machinery and other equipment that one person is unlikely to be able to maneuver.2014, James Luce, The Star-Spangled Triangle, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 60. From the entry cryo-freeze
• Experienced mechanics can diagnosis the condition of machinery just by listening.2013, Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things. From the entry diagnosis
• Sledge hammers are only used for heavy-duty persuading when working on vehicles or machinery.2006, Tom Benford, Garage And Workshop Gear Guide. From the entry sledge
• To achieve uptime optimization, the machinery specification and actual design must be right.2006, Fred K. Geitner and Heinz P. Bloch, chapter 1, in Maximizing Machinery Uptime, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry uptime
• Potato farming as a single crop requires a lot of acreage and machinery to be profitable.1993 December 5, Miriam Ungerer, “For Some L.I. Farmers, New Potatoes Are Old Potatoes”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry 'tater
• Almost all the machinery had been taken over from one of the large bulb enterprises in Shanghai.1977, Jon Sigurdson, “Notes”, in Rural Industrialization in China, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 242. From the entry Chiating
• Grover was a pilot of nervened skill and the Mustang was an airplane of precise machinery.1964, Explorations in Education, volumes 1-12, page 93. From the entry nerven
• Of deep concern for us has been the question of machinery for the implementation of land reforms.1964 May, K. D. Malaviya [i.e., Keshav Dev Malviya], “Agricultural-Industrial Reorganisation”, in Amarnath Vidyalankar, editor, Congress…. From the entry unoften
• Khrushchev is turning the top-heavy administrative machinery of a gigantic command economy upside down.1957 September, Richard Löwenthal, “Party Vs. State”, in Problems of Communism, volume 6, number 5, page 1. From the entry command economy
• The cocooned machinery in its case being hoisted aboard Grace Line's Santa Ana.1947, “Cocooned Hosiery Machines”, in The Grace Log, volumes 22-25, page 17. From the entry cocooned
• Aeschylus is not concerned here with the mere machinery of dramaturgical device.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “IV. Prometheus”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 112. From the entry dramaturgical
• Trelease mildly exercised her talking machinery and got it into good training.1923, The Law Student, pages 3, column 4; and 6, column 2. From the entry chairmaness
• He was like the scotch in the smooth, happy machinery of the home.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 4, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC. From the entry scotch
• Before tearing up the property with machinery, the police conducted a screening at the site with specialised cadaver dogs.2026 July 27, Nicholas Muhoro, “The Disappearance of Kayla Berg and the Condemned House Where Her Trail Ended”, in Skip Boring, archived…. From the entry decomposition
• To disillusion a man is not to break him, but to open his eyes to the machinery behind the curtain.2025, anonymous author, On the Edge of Perception. From the entry disillusion
• The cost of keeping historic machinery operational has skyrocketed.2024 April 3, Richard Foster, “Training the next generation of engineers”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 51. From the entry skyrocket
• A power screw is a device used in machinery to change angular motion into linear motion, and, usually, to transmit power.2021, Richard G. Budynas and J. Keith Nisbett, “Screws, Fasteners, and the Design of Nonpermanent Joints”, in Shigley's Mechanical…. From the entry power screw
• As ever, there's a brief, grey dead time while Wheeler waits for all the machinery of the performance to spin up.2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry dead
• Pickets came and went for the shortest shifts before resuming their work as teachers, taxidrivers or minders of other newspapers’ machinery.2016, Peter Stothard, The Senecans: Four Men and Margaret Thatcher, New York, N.Y.; London: Overlook Duckworth, →ISBN, page 54. From the entry taxidriver
• As Abbey notes, in denouncing terrorism but defending ecotage, ‘sabotage is violence against inanimate objects: machinery and property.2013, Elizabeth Bomberg, David Schlosberg, editors, Environmentalism in the United States: Changing Conceptions of Activism, Routledge…. From the entry ecotage
• Beyond the slag was a colliery with its machinery and smoking chimney, making the whole area look grim and austere.2011, Vivienne Dockerty, A Woman Undefeated, page 54. From the entry slag
• There is a range of theories from farm or factory machinery to conspiracy theories such as flying saucers.2011 June 13, “Who, What, Why: Why is 'the hum' such a mystery?”, in BBC News. From the entry hum
• Using cellulose from native rather than from cultivated plants (“grassoline”) does not require fertilizer or the petroleum-using machinery to spread it.2011, Harvey Blatt, America's Environmental Report Card: Are We Making the Grade?. From the entry grassoline
• The rumble of machinery is replaced by the slipslop of the sea against the hull and the splutterings of the VHF.2005, Bella Bathurst, The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships. From the entry slipslop

Meaning of machinery

1. noun The machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively.
2. noun The working parts of a machine as a group.
3. noun The collective parts of something which allow it to function.

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Questions about machinery in a sentence

How do you use machinery in a sentence?

Machinery is used as a noun. For example: “All of the machinery of the law was brought to bear on the investigation.”

What is a short sentence with machinery?

“Bits of old machinery were lying about.”

What does machinery mean?

Machinery means the machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively.