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Example sentences for "machine"

Lexicographically close words:
machicolations; machicoulis; machina; machination; machinations; machined; machinery; machines; machining; machinist
  1. The heavy machine crashed over on him and dragged him several yards.

  2. There is a machine shop, too, rigged up in one of those outbuildings.

  3. I can be tinkering with the machine while you keep watch for them.

  4. I believe you are half glad of it," snarled her escort as he brought the machine to a stop and repeated his usual question.

  5. No one knew what to say; we looked blankly at our neighbours, and one man got down on his hands and knees and peered under the body of the machine as if he suspected Radcliffe of hiding there.

  6. But the machine kept on an even keel, and in a few moments I joined with the others in a wild rush to the field at a little distance where the machine, like a mighty bird, had alighted easily and safely.

  7. The machine was raising itself lightly and easily from the ground.

  8. Supposing this to be the beginning of the cut-nail idea, the machine for making them would still remain the actual and practical invention, since it would mark the beginning of the industry as such.

  9. Hawkesbee constructed a glass machine that was an improvement over that of Guericke.

  10. He who made the first actual machine to evolve a current in compliance with Faraday's formulated laws was an Italian named Pixü, in 1832.

  11. We have in modern times applied the word "engine" almost exclusively to the machine which is moved by the pressure of steam.

  12. Such a machine may have seemed to them a willful toying with disaster.

  13. Perhaps it might be well to attempt to convey, for the benefit of the youngest reader, an idea of the actual working of the machine we call a steam-engine.

  14. A footnote in a current encyclopedia states that: "An account of the Magneto-electric machine of M.

  15. A smaller machine with a single barrel may be found now, reduced, in the hands of men who clean the interior of pianos, and tune them.

  16. The principle of the action of Hero's machine has been accepted for two thousand years, though never in a steam-engine.

  17. His machine was also the first known illustration of what is now called the "turbine" principle; the principle of reaction in mechanics.

  18. Probably the modern dynamo is the most efficient, the most accurately measurable, the least wasteful of its power, and the most manageable, of any power-machine so far constructed by man for daily use.

  19. Ezra Cornell, afterwards the founder of Cornell University, had been engaged in the manufacture and sale of a patent plow, and undertook to make a pipe-laying machine for this new telegraph line.

  20. Where was that machine upon which she had gazed with so much confident pride?

  21. If a man has stolen a watering-machine from the meadow, he shall pay five shekels of silver to the owner of the watering-machine.

  22. A machine for cutting cane, to do the work of forty men, has been invented and in 1918 received practical trial, which is said to have been fairly satisfactory.

  23. The decortator, or machine by which the sisal is separated from the pulp of the leaves, is located near the crest of the hill, about a half a mile back of the factory.

  24. Stopping the machine suddenly, he jumped to the ground and stood spellbound, looking down into that beautiful basin, over a thousand feet below.

  25. And whether he helped get away with the surveyor's machine or not, I'm sure I don't know.

  26. You don't suppose Brady knows anything about Mr. Collinger's machine himself, do you?

  27. The machine had acted so well all along, that perhaps he had grown careless.

  28. Just as he was getting down to crawl under the machine Sammy Pinkney, who had been keeping wonderfully quiet for him, suddenly asked: "Say, Neale!

  29. I'll have the machine ready as soon as I get a bite of breakfast.

  30. Mrs. MacCall was doubtful about the utility of the machine after all.

  31. Fortunately, the night was short, and there was soon enough light by which to fly, and in a brief time the seneschals and myrmidons had the great machine in the midst of the tourney-ground, all ready for flight.

  32. My idee is that ye don't need no flyin' machine anywhar except to git away quick and what we want to know is what air ye goin' to take with you when ye fly away?

  33. Meyers, the hero of hundreds of ascents, had used a new machine which applied simultaneously to both sides of the bag fabric several thin films of elastic varnish.

  34. When I had entered the machine he had driven me to the Darwin home and left me at the front steps.

  35. You'll find me waiting in the machine if you want a ten-spot.

  36. Do you take me for a mere calculating machine without any human feelings and consideration for others?

  37. The chauffeur evidently had his instructions, for I was hardly within before the machine was speeding toward the Drive.

  38. Stay in the machine while I find out if Kite is among them.

  39. But the Papal Government very soon discovered that the whole political machine would be very soon at a stand, by such an épuration; and the most of them have been since reinstated.

  40. All the passengers were obliged to bundle out and ascend on foot; and even then it is a most arduous montée for such a cumbrous machine as a French diligence.

  41. There is a large building and court yard near one of the gates of the city supposed to have been a barrack for soldiers; three skeletons were found here with their legs in a machine similar to our stocks.

  42. The place was very quiet, save for the distant clicking of a typewriter and the thud of a "column-printer" tape machine as the wheel carrier shot back for a new line.

  43. Else the machine will surely grind the man to death; and his body will finally stop the wheels that his soul originally set in motion.

  44. Just as an engineer sees more in a machine than a man who does not understand its working, so the Florentine saw more in the human body than a mediaeval artist.

  45. Clearly, all will depend on how many of us, and how much of the apparatus of civilization, our time-machine is able to accommodate.

  46. But isn't it going to put a crimp in our anti-gravity machine sales?

  47. As they dropped down to join their predecessors, the machine gave a satisfied shake, and rose steadily to the two-foot level.

  48. And that, of course, is only if the machine isn't duplicating the atmosphere, too.

  49. And I found that I could lift the machine into the air, and it'd stay where it was put, just whistling and whirling its cones.

  50. We figure it'll take quite a few years before the machine gets beyond the point where the atmosphere stops acting as a medium for the soundwaves.

  51. As the machine reaches the upper atmosphere, the soundwaves'll thin out, weaken, as the medium grows scarce.

  52. He had been hanging about the machine when we came down to breakfast, and ever since.

  53. They tried to go on right through the wheels, but only succeeded in getting under them, setting the machine to pitching like a ship in a heavy sea.

  54. The machine went very fast, despite my hard work, and to my surprise J.

  55. He really was grateful, however, for he offered to push the machine up a hill down which he had just walked.

  56. Our machine was heavily loaded, and not too easy to work over prolonged up-grades.

  57. I suppose our machine without an umbrella seemed to him like a ship without a sail.

  58. We were both glad to be on the machine after our walk.

  59. We could not ride through the streets, and so could not mount the machine for his benefit.

  60. The roads were sticky and the machine ran heavily, and trees and hedges were wet with sparkling raindrops.

  61. We walked for about a hundred yards, and it was as hard to hold back the machine as before it had been to push it.

  62. We paid eight shillings to have the tricycle carried to Dover, porters amiably remarking it would take a pile of money to get such a machine to Italy.

  63. Very good; but how do you know that your men will not be bribed and that the 'terrorists' will not succeed, unknown to you, in placing an explosive machine in some dark corner?

  64. Papa and my big brother Jean go out riding on their bicycles and I am left at home with mamma, because I have not a machine and they cannot afford to buy me one.

  65. His machine was in perfect order; the fire had already been started by one of the shed firemen, and Fairfax shook down the coals and prepared to get up steam.

  66. He had meditated as he drove his engine, facing the miles before him as the machine ate them up, and these miles began to take him into other countries.

  67. The bulky, panting, puffing, sliding thing, feminine as the machine seemed, could no longer charm Fairfax nor occupy all his thoughts.

  68. They had nothing to offer Potowski, not even a cigarette, but the Pole forced his cigar-case upon them, telling them that he made his cigarettes with a machine by the thousand.

  69. The machine was off like a shot and even if we had been able to follow, we could not now have caught it.

  70. Suddenly the man in the machine signalled to the driver.

  71. At last the transmission of the photograph was completed and the machine came to rest.

  72. He attached another, smaller machine to the wireless detector.

  73. He dragged his machine into the bushes, hid it, and hurried down the road on foot.

  74. He had now sunk down beside his machine in the road.

  75. Later it was rumored that a machine had left the jail that night with three men in it.

  76. He's a-tickin' at that writin' machine of his most all day, and sometimes nights.

  77. The machine gun stuttered and sprayed a fury of slugs that cut down horses and riders.

  78. Their leaders had told them that with the machine gun they could clean up the town, capture the court-house, and make their own terms.

  79. From a building opposite came a single shot, and the group round the machine gun lifted one of their fellows and carried him back into the building.

  80. The sheriff was about to call for volunteers to capture the machine gun when a white handkerchief fluttered from an upper window of the court-house.

  81. I seen that that young fella, number thirty-eight, was one of the men who went after that machine gun.

  82. She did not regret it when they shipped their machine from Stacey and took the Overland for New York.

  83. A man jumped from the machine and walked round the buckboard.

  84. And as a provision against a lean winter, Waring had put a mowing-machine in at the eastern end of the range, where the bunch-grass was heavy enough to cut.

  85. And they was settin' up a machine gun when I slipped through and beat it, lookin' for you.

  86. With some pieces of timber Lorry jacked up the front of the machine and removed the damaged wheel and axle.

  87. Out on the highway two long, slender shafts of light slid across the mesa, dipped into an arroyo, and climbed skyward as a machine buzzed up the opposite pitch.

  88. That men of this kind should have access to arms and ammunition of the latest military type--and a machine gun.

  89. The driver of the machine ran a quick hand over the neck and arms of Waco, who groaned.

  90. If they had an arrangement to knock off all those parties at our wedding reception, how come McCaffery brought a machine gun along?

  91. Without his machine gun he was just an ordinary little man who didn't want to go with us.

  92. The Cement Mixer Zinsky crowd was clustered, cowering, around the buffet, staring at the machine gun as though it possessed the hypnotic eyes of a snake.

  93. Everyone was far more interested in the black Thompson sub-machine gun he held cradled over one arm.

  94. Machine guns were posted at conspicuous points and armored cars were stationed opposite the entrance of the barracks.

  95. The Cheshskoslovatsky brigade captured sixty-two officers and 3,150 soldiers, fifteen guns and many machine guns.

  96. The Italians captured sixty-one men and one machine gun.

  97. Before they could capture the aviator, he succeeded in restarting his machine and in making his escape to the German lines.

  98. Our aviators, having sunk their machine after taking from it the compass, machine gun, and valuable belongings, boarded the schooner and set sail for our shores.

  99. The result was that the British drove down an enemy machine in the forest of Gremecy, remaining masters of the field without incurring any losses themselves.

  100. They turned on their machine guns, and the bullets only struck sparks from the great beasts' awful sides.

  101. Almost 1,000 prisoners as well as some machine guns and mortars fell into their hands.

  102. Not a German machine was visible, but some were hidden among the snow clouds, for the rattle of machine guns, heard at times, denoted their presence above the battle field.

  103. Numerous air flights took place and one Austrian machine was brought down; one of the Italian machines was reported missing.

  104. Concrete dugouts of the strongest description were provided for the protection of garrisons and machine gunners, and nothing that labor and skill could devise was neglected to make the position indestructible.

  105. MacRae sometimes had the strange fancy of being caught in a vast machine for feeding the world, a machine which did not reckon such factors as pain and sorrow in its remorseless functioning.

  106. The apparently accidental circumstance by which Josephine had escaped the explosion of the infernal machine was construed by many as a direct interposition of Providence in favor of Napoleon's Guardian Angel.

  107. The machine for making the corrugations in the sides of these metallic boats consists of a hydraulic press and a set of enormous dies.


  108. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "machine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    machine building; machine guns; machine shop; machine shops; machine tool; machine tools; machinery and transport equipment; machinery and transportation equipment