MACHINERY in a Sentence

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52 example sentences for MACHINERY, such as:

1. Much machinery has been installed.
2. The use of heavy machinery has damaged the site.
3. We have no machinery for dealing with complaints.
4. The group can't get credit to buy farming machinery.
5. I could find no machinery, no appliances of any kind.

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 Meanings and Examples of MACHINERY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
machinery
 n.  machines or machine systems collectively
 n.  a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1  Later there would also be need for seeds and artificial manures, besides various tools and, finally, the machinery for the windmill.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
2  The machinery had still to be installed, and Whymper was negotiating the purchase of it, but the structure was completed.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
3  Already Frederick had paid up; and the sum he had paid was just enough to buy the machinery for the windmill.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
4  There were the bricks, sand, and lime for the schoolroom to be purchased, and it would also be necessary to begin saving up again for the machinery for the windmill.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
5  Each of us a free man; plates washed by machinery; not an aeroplane to vex us; all liberated; made whole.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
6  It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
7  Time went on in Coketown like its own machinery: so much material wrought up, so much fuel consumed, so many powers worn out, so much money made.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV
8  They don't like these new fangled mines, such a depth, and all machinery to work them.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
9  I could find no machinery, no appliances of any kind.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
10  The air was full of the throb and hum of machinery pumping air down the shaft.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VI
11  But I said to myself, "You are in for it now," and, feeling my way along the tunnel, I found the noise of machinery grow louder.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VI
12  I was afraid to push my way in among all this machinery in the dark, and it was only with my last glimpse of light I discovered that my store of matches had run low.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VI
13  I felt that I was wasting my time in the academic examination of machinery.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VIII
14  The Under-world being in contact with machinery, which, however perfect, still needs some little thought outside habit, had probably retained perforce rather more initiative, if less of every other human character, than the Upper.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In X
15  The cotton was given me in good faith to buy leather and rifles and machinery with.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
Example Sentence:
1  Consumption of alcohol impairs your ability to drive a car or operate machinery.
2  We could achieve major economies in time with this new machinery.
3  He was a bit anxious about the safety of the machinery.
4  They are faced with the task of dismantling the state machinery in order to create more democratic structures.
5  The group can't get credit to buy farming machinery.
6  We need to discuss ways of improving the machinery of government.
7  A spark from the machinery had set fire to some material.
8  The court is ineffective because it lacks the necessary enforcement machinery.
9  The use of heavy machinery has damaged the site.
10  The opera house was handed over by the builders nearly a year ago, but it's taken many months to install new stage machinery and to adjust the acoustics.
11  We have no machinery for dealing with complaints.
12  Much machinery has been installed.
13  Many new things found useful in the home have spun off from the machinery of space travel.