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Example sentences for "mechanically"

Lexicographically close words:
mebby; mech; mechanic; mechanical; mechanicall; mechanician; mechanicians; mechanics; mechanism; mechanisms
  1. But as his name was uttered, he started and mechanically left his seat, while Patty turned pale, and Mrs Pellet had what she afterwards described as a rising sensation in her throat.

  2. Mechanically I released Mary from the influence and then waited to see what she would do.

  3. I stood mechanically glaring at Geraldine, at the glass which did not reflect me, and at myself.

  4. She took up the paper mechanically and glanced through its contents.

  5. She took it mechanically and turned into the little side street on which they lived.

  6. Ye hear the call of civilisation, but we heap the Muezzin--" He stopped, and searched mechanically for his watch.

  7. Mechanically her hand moved over the portfolio of the late Countess, and it involuntarily felt in one of its many pockets.

  8. Mechanically he drew out his watch and looked at it.

  9. Suddenly, the world had grown unfamiliar to him; he saw it from afar; but his subconscious self involuntarily registered impressions, and he moved mechanically through the ceremonies and duties of the immediate present.

  10. Mechanically he had put it in his pocket when he dressed in the morning.

  11. Mechanically he took off his coat, and was about to fold and lay it on the rug beside the bed, when something hard in one of the pockets knocked against his knee.

  12. Almost mechanically she glanced at the contents.

  13. He had taken the ring mechanically from her, and he stood a moment bewildered; then he pressed after her.

  14. He stood motionless with the receiver to his ear, his jaws moving mechanically about the last of the piece of bread.

  15. On the mountains, they were absorbed by the stern physical effort, and concentrated mechanically on getting down.

  16. He waited and noted mechanically that Stannard was a few yards nearer the top of the rocks.

  17. Into what groups are the mechanically formed rocks divided?

  18. Our system of education is full of contradictions, which consist at once in mechanically burdening the child’s memory with things it cannot understand, and in depriving its intelligence of subjects in which it might take an interest.

  19. The ritual is an excrescence simply, an almost superstitious habit, mechanically practised and destined to disappear.

  20. Rudolph was thus far in these reflections, when, looking mechanically at the door, he noticed a strong bolt--a bolt that would not have been out of place on the door of a prison.

  21. My work being finished I opened the drawer to put it away; mechanically my eyes fell upon an open letter, where I read the name of Jerome Morel, the artisan.

  22. Saint Remy, continuing to walk with agitation, raised mechanically the curtain which separated the saloon from Florestan's study and entered the apartment.

  23. Gerald, after half a glance at him, mechanically looked in the same direction.

  24. If the phrase has been mechanically introduced, it has been so by the second Synoptist, in whose text it is more out of place than in Peter.

  25. Quickly he crossed the room, and pressed a button that mechanically opened a door.

  26. The art of mechanically multiplying copies of a writing, or any work of art.

  27. To design mechanically or artistically; to fashion; to mold.

  28. Such solutions are much used in determining the specific gravities of minerals, and in separating them when mechanically mixed as in a pulverized rock.

  29. A person who acts mechanically or at will of another.

  30. An optical toy, in which figures made to revolve on the inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference, appear like a single figure passing through a series of natural motions as if animated or mechanically moved.

  31. Mechanically he put on his hat and coat and left the temple, hiding the key in the pillar.

  32. Thus for an hour or more his mind was let loose among the tenebra of life, while his feet pushed on mechanically over the dusty roads that skirted the lake.

  33. Was it not probable that under the stress of that excitement he forgot his presence of mind, and mechanically went straight to the all-important spot?

  34. Mechanically he took up the whisky decanter from his desk, and poured some of its contents into his glass--the rim of the glass tinkled against the neck of the decanter.

  35. They talked mechanically about what they were not thinking about, and by the time they got back to the house Mason was becoming desperate.

  36. Nevertheless, all the way home Bob mechanically repeats the search and wonders how he will get money to carry out his plan.

  37. Tom took mechanically all the congratulations offered to him.

  38. And when Johanna mechanically obeyed, she added, "You need put no force upon yourself; Otto has made a frank confession to me.

  39. Mechanically she fumbled among the letters lying on the table, when suddenly her eyes fell upon an envelope addressed in Loebel Wolf's hand, and picking it up, she again went up to her brother.

  40. Johanna mechanically obeyed, although, with a mixture of terror and delight, she had seen at a glance that the note was from her step-mother.

  41. To this her ladyship had replied mechanically that a slight headache troubled her.

  42. An unusual air of indifference hung about her as she stood there amid this throng of martial jostlers who craved the honour of a dance and at whom she smiled a thought mechanically over the top of her slowly moving fan.

  43. She withdrew her hands and mechanically smoothed back her hair, then, as Carterette sat watching her, folded up the sewing and put it in the work-basket hanging on the wall.

  44. She unfolded the letter slowly, and Guida stopped sewing, but mechanically began to prick the linen lying on her knee with the point of the needle.

  45. The others of the band mechanically mutter the same word, in like tones of apprehension.

  46. Be that as it may, his funeral at Highgate had been perfect, and coming away from it Soames Forsyte made almost mechanically for his Uncle Timothy's in the Bayswater Road.

  47. He noted mechanically that all was still silvery, and that the upright piano was of satinwood.

  48. Mechanically she closed drawer after drawer, went to her bed, lay on it, and buried her face in the pillows.

  49. He warmed it mechanically with his hand, listening to his father's laboured breathing; while the power of feeling rose again within him.

  50. He went up to the Venus and mechanically inspected the tortoise.


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