Examples of machinery in a Sentence
Some of the mill's machinery was damaged in the fire.
a piece of farm machinery
Something was clogging the machinery.
The United Nations has set up machinery for mediation.
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The violent machinery of the state is directed against the country’s own citizens.
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Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
There’s been a lot of innovation and so much new technology—new machinery, and new methods of doing things more efficiently; that’s one.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2025
The servants of this democratic republic’s machinery are, in truth, nothing but members of a mafia set up to plunder the island’s riches—and the West is complicit, with its own interests in the riches underground, in the ocean, from the soil.
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This revealed the enzymatic machinery at work in real-time.
—Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2025
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Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
There’s been a lot of innovation and so much new technology—new machinery, and new methods of doing things more efficiently; that’s one.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2025
The servants of this democratic republic’s machinery are, in truth, nothing but members of a mafia set up to plunder the island’s riches—and the West is complicit, with its own interests in the riches underground, in the ocean, from the soil.
—Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2025
This revealed the enzymatic machinery at work in real-time.
—Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2025
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“Machinery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/machinery. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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machinery
noun
ma·chin·ery
mə-ˈshēn-(ə-)rē 
plural machineries
1
: machines in general
2
: the working parts of a machine or instrument
3
: the organization or system by which something is done or carried on
machinery of government
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