How to Use machinery in a Sentence

machinery

noun
  • 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
  • The clock was running down and the machinery was on the verge of going kaboom.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • The phones are smarter; the law enforcement machinery is not.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2022
  • But over three decades, the ride’s novelty and machinery had worn off and worn down.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The blaze engulfed a piece of machinery at the Novoshakhtinsk plant in the Rostov-on-Don region.
    — John Leicester, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2022
  • The blaze engulfed a piece of machinery at the Novoshakhtinsk plant in the Rostov-on-Don region.
    — John Leicester, ajc, 22 June 2022
  • Some people fled down the bowling lanes and climbed up into the machinery behind the pins.
    — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Jaime became wedged between the left side of the vehicle and the left column of the car wash machinery.
    — Hyeyoon Alyssa Choi, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Farther down the road, the trees and defunct machinery give way to a parking area fronting two 50-yard mud bogs.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Classic rock could be heard playing on the radio, over the thrum of machinery.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2023
  • And when the war ends, construction crews will begin the cleanup with heavy machinery.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The work is hard—twelve-hour shifts, six days on, six days off—and the machinery itself is dangerous.
    — Sam Thielman, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The mill’s machinery was sold, and crews salvaged lumber from it to build St. Cloud’s first hotel in 1909.
    — Orlando Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2022
  • The car then rolled forward, pinning him between the car and the car wash’s machinery, Walters said.
    — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Leather shoes, clay pipes, a metal button from a jacket and mine machinery were among the items found.
    — Sana Noor Haq, CNN, 12 July 2022
  • 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
  • The machinery will be running in a few weeks and the company will then be prepared to turn out cloth as well as yarn.
    — Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Ahead of the now-famous Miami race, the grid was swarming with celebrities from across the globe, on top of the usual team personnel readying their machinery for the race ahead.
    — Alex Harrington, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 May 2025
  • The deal will open up the U.K. market to American exports including ethanol, agriculture, and machinery and eliminate tariffs on steel and aluminum between the two countries.
    — Callum Sutherland, Time, 8 May 2025

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