How to Use sprocket in a Sentence

sprocket

noun
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  • Center the sprocket, Uni-Hub and brake drum on the axle.
    — Harry Sawyers, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2015
  • The Iron 1200 has all-black, nine-spoke wheels and a solid black belt guard and rear sprocket.
    — Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2018
  • This is a minor gripe, but the bar retention nuts are not held to the chain sprocket cover.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Sometimes a single broken tooth on a tiny plastic sprocket can throw a proverbial wrench in the works.
    — NBC News, 2 Mar. 2021
  • As Derwacter stood up there, the motor’s spinning sprocket snatched his sleeve, pulling his arm into the machine.
    — Isaac Arnsdorf, ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2019
  • The 16-foot tall stainless-steel structure depicts a white oval with black slashes painted across on a sprocket, atop red and white block-style posts.
    — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 3 July 2021
  • The new, full-time active transfer case uses forged steel chain sprockets and a wider chain for added strength and durability.
    — Terry Troy, cleveland.com, 13 May 2017
  • It's propelled along a surprisingly slender chain, anchored on each side of the river, with links an inch wide fed through a sprocket as the crank rotates.
    — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 14 Aug. 2022
  • The Idaho house has an amphitheater, a pond and a round, 12-foot metal sprocket, once used in a Montana mine, decorating its doors.
    — Nancy Keates, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Once the saw pierces the outer fabric, the chain tears into the synthetic fibers below, which so thoroughly entangle the chain and its sprocket that both are stopped dead in their tracks.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Each individual photo was the height of four perforations that were cut into the film so sprockets in the camera could move it along as it was exposed.
    — Stan Horaczek, Popular Science, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Two electric motors, each delivering eight shaft horsepower, are used; there is one to each rear wheel, the latter being driven by a rugged sprocket and chain system that is geared down to conserve power.
    — B.c. George, Car and Driver, 27 June 2022
  • The company's name sits on a magnetic armature, and the whole design is circled with a sprocket to signify mechanical engineering.
    — Tyler Langan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2017

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