How to Use machinery in a Sentence

machinery

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  • Some of the mill's machinery was damaged in the fire.
  • Something was clogging the machinery.
  • The United Nations has set up machinery for mediation.
  • The first week and a half after the fire, apart from the machinery and the dogs, Lahaina was silent.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • There are wars and rumors of wars and the machineries of war at work.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The machinery and gear is available to the public 24 hours a day.
    — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Heavy machinery could be seen digging through the area, but to no avail.
    — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023
  • There’s always a lot of machinery, lots of noise, lots of dust.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Through the veiled scrim, some sort of machinery can be glimpsed inside.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Down more steps still, the lower deck houses all the machinery (tanks, chain lockers, and the like).
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 15 Nov. 2023
  • But over three decades, the ride’s novelty and machinery had worn off and worn down.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Some people fled down the bowling lanes and climbed up into the machinery behind the pins.
    — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Classic rock could be heard playing on the radio, over the thrum of machinery.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Their windows and tools in their garage often vibrate with the hum of machinery at the nearby well pad.
    — Sean Keane, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Without more than one of him, the MCU’s own machinery doesn’t seem built to handle all the content passing through it.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2023
  • In Japan, machinery orders for April, released Thursday, showed the first growth in three months.
    — Yuri Kageyama, ajc, 15 June 2023
  • To make matters worse, any plastic film that gets into the line clogs the machinery, which means workers have to cut it out.
    — Cynthia Sewell, Idaho Statesman, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The facility’s machinery was strewn across the warehouse, milk spoiled, and inches of mud pilled all over the floor.
    — Jay Croft and Isabel Rosales, CNN, 28 Sep. 2024
  • In farm machinery, John Deere and Kubota account for about a third of the market.
    — The Conversation, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The forest in the photo above was entirely logged with heavy machinery 80 years ago.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2023
  • If the machinery of oppressive power is to be trained on the weak, then there is a duty to stop the gears by any means necessary.
    — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 5 May 2024
  • Conditions in the permit barred the use of heavy machinery in the tidal zone and removal of sand from the public beach, according to the complaint.
    — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Trucks, airplanes and machinery all were put up for auction.
    — Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Most of the bed is man-made without heavy factory machinery.
    — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 7 May 2023
  • The bowler scrambled down the length of an alley and crawled up into the bowling pin machinery as the gunman fired randomly.
    — Daniella Silva, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The smallest dam, Copco No. 2, was torn down by crews using heavy machinery.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Yes, baskets and textiles are both woven — one mostly by hand and the other often with the aid of machinery.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Now, the heavy machinery at the site is rumbling as loud as ever, extracting coal to power South Africa.
    — John Eligon, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The developers found a thick coating of sweet gunk on every bit of the machinery inside.
    — Curbed, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Attendees were given tours of the facility’s training areas, where machinery sat in neat rows under bright lights.
    — Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2024

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