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Example sentences for "machinery"

Lexicographically close words:
machina; machination; machinations; machine; machined; machines; machining; machinist; machinists; macho
  1. The chief merit of machinery lies in its enabling us to multiply constantly the scope and variety of our enjoyments without a corresponding increase of toil.

  2. Machinery Department, from whence the wants of the Western machine-using public will be supplied.

  3. The device is designed for application to any light machinery that can be propelled by foot power.

  4. With such improved machinery the product of these mines will undoubtedly attract the attention of the world, and so reflect great credit upon the capacity, ingenuity, and skill of our mechanical establishments.

  5. The machinery was brought down from Pittsburg on Tuesday, and is now being put in position by contractors, who have engaged to go down 1,200 feet.

  6. There never was a time when the laborer toiled less or enjoyed more than in these days of machinery; and the laborer's condition is best where the machinery is best and most used.

  7. If the workman were his own master, when he had done in two hours with the aid of machinery what it would have taken him twelve hours to do without it, he would stop at the end of the two.

  8. While in the main there are many different plans upon which successful machinery establishments are conducted, there are some underlying principles that must be observed to avoid meeting with difficulties.

  9. This enormous amount of machinery was constructed by the above firm and put on board a ship 50 days from date of contract.

  10. It has been pleaded that this machinery might have been rendered influential for the encouragement of living authorship.

  11. Here he drank in an education such as no academic forcing machinery could ever infuse.

  12. To him their volumes are as new tools to the mechanic, or new machinery to the manufacturer.

  13. On the contrary, they desired to work it on their own account, and thus the machinery of the empire lived, exercising more or less vitality and power, down to the first French Revolution.

  14. Footnote 69: A voice from the other side of the Atlantic reveals the portentous nature of the machinery with which Mr Hazlewood conducted his editorial labours.

  15. It has been the object of the machinery here referred to, to limit the impressions of such works to those who want and can pay for them--an extremely simple object, as all great ones are.

  16. By that machinery it is, and not by poison, that the majority qualify themselves for claiming the funeral allowances.

  17. It wanted, however, as yet, the principle of its vitality, in wanting the machinery of sylphs and gnomes, with which addition it was first published in 1714.

  18. High profits (taking always good years together with bad) on capital sunk before the war in buildings and machinery are thus a likely consequence of an increase in the price-level.

  19. The argument was exceedingly complex in detail; but it boils down to this: The factories and machinery which are admittedly essential to production were themselves produced in exactly the same way as consumable goods.

  20. This is powerful testimony in favor of the view that an increase in the supply of capital and the use of machinery will usually enhance on balance the demand for labor.

  21. Machinery and labor must be used together, in some cases in proportions which are absolutely fixed.

  22. But the utility of the factories, the machinery and the operatives employed in the woollen and worsted industries is derived from precisely the same source.

  23. Here we come back to the factories and machinery which ordinarily spring to our mind at the mention of the word capital.

  24. Moreover, though this is not conclusive, there is little room for doubt that an obstructive attitude towards the extension of machinery in a particular country, or a particular district, is misguided.

  25. The machinery by which the diurnal movement of the sphere is followed, must be especially modified to suit each eccentric career.

  26. An attempt was made in 1881 to supply the sun with machinery analogous to that of a regenerative furnace, enabling it to consume the same fuel over and over again, and so to prolong indefinitely its beneficent existence.

  27. It is difficult to imagine by what chromospheric machinery this curious result can be produced.

  28. And yet withal, I sometimes felt, she is too deeply in our confidence,--she sees too much of the secret machinery of our plans.

  29. The fatal machinery of deception and falsehood which his life maintained crumbled to ruin at the very moment of his death; he was himself the mainspring of all fraud, and when he ceased to dictate, the game of roguery was over.

  30. Until the event had actually occurred, it was not easy to conceive how the dishonesty of one man could so effectually derange the whole complex machinery of a vast society; but so it really proved.

  31. By the inventions in agricultural machinery the United States can feed all the mouths upon the earth.

  32. And yet, by this machinery we can produce enough to flood the world.

  33. But if my daughter is your wife, she left you of her own free will, under no coercion of mine; and she must return to you in the same manner, or you must put the machinery of the law in force to compel her.

  34. All the machinery of his existence was loosened and out of gear, and he could scarcely have borne the dreary burden of his days, had it not been for that one feverish hope of finding the man who had wronged him.

  35. The London police, who had pretended to be so hopeful at first, began to despair in a visible manner, having put all their machinery into play, and failed to obtain even the most insignificant result.

  36. I have said that the internal machinery of out bodies is the great source of our heat.

  37. Money is freely spent when new machinery is needed on the farm, or another fifty-acre piece is added after a prosperous season; but seldom a thought of the needs of the kitchen.

  38. Machinery has been added, making the work easier; farming has become more scientific, giving scope to the man who does not wish to be a mere nobody.

  39. To what extent has machinery relieved farm labor of its drudgery?

  40. The Social Effect of Lessened Drudgery To the mechanic the story of agricultural machinery suggests the miracle of the conquest of nature by human ingenuity and perfected mechanical skill.

  41. It should duplicate no social machinery or effort, but should supplement all other local institutions and perfect their service by its own service of the higher life of the community.

  42. Labor saving machinery is just as much a feature of modern civilization in the country as it is in the city.

  43. The tendency of farm machinery to throw men out of employment and send many to the city is shown by these facts from the thirteenth annual report of the U.

  44. Machinery displaces the labor or increases the crop, according to circumstances; but usually both.

  45. It follows as a matter of course that machinery has greatly reduced the cost of production.

  46. It has been estimated that the use of agricultural machinery saved in human labor in this country alone, in the year 1899, the vast sum of about seven hundred million dollars, with doubtless a great increase the past decade.

  47. Power Machinery on the Modern Farm A most interesting chapter in the story of human industry is the evolution of power machinery.

  48. Meanwhile the invention of agricultural machinery made it possible for the farm work of the country to be done by fewer men.

  49. How serious the accident to the machinery was no one knew.

  50. As soon as you break the law openly, and set the machinery of public penalty in motion, there is an end of you, so far as this world is concerned.

  51. Well, since we are beginning to talk like a couple of books by a pair of priggish philosophers, I might as well say that I think sin is final so far as the domestic and social machinery of the world is concerned.

  52. The accident to the machinery and our delay were almost forgotten in the preparations therefor.

  53. The Commission, however, was not a law-court itself: its duty was to report to the Diet, which would then create such judicial machinery as might be necessary.

  54. They formed a class accustomed to act in common, conversant with details of administration, and especially with the machinery for collecting and distributing supplies.

  55. The men--the master among them--fought all night through in utter darkness, groping for the machinery of their guns and in momentary expectation of suffocation and death from the German shells.

  56. These are invisible to the foe until raised by machinery within, when they command the entire neighborhood and can fire their 6-inch shells in any direction.

  57. At eight o'clock, one of the huge shells shattered the gun machinery of Fort Fleron.

  58. Even the Border States, which had not been embraced by the military agencies and federalized machinery erected over the Gulf States, were seriously menaced.

  59. The leaders of this belated element were in complete control of the political machinery of the state.

  60. Now no one replied immediately to her remarks, and she continued: "If I were an artist I should wish to paint that scene, given that the lights were not so bright and that mill machinery not so sharply defined.

  61. I have, as you know, some knowledge of machinery and engineering.

  62. Phil had asked to see the lad who, by neglecting the machinery for a moment, had wrecked his life.

  63. All that would be splendid without the mills and the machinery and Boldrick's cable, but it would not be perfect: it needs man--Phil Boldrick and Company in the foreground.

  64. As the centre of the great wheat valley of the Red river, it has a busy trade in wheat, flour and agricultural machinery and implements, as well as large jobbing interests.

  65. Where, however, the fundamental conceptions of grammar and the machinery by which they are expressed are the same, we may have no hesitation in inferring a common origin.

  66. The dust from the cleaning machinery is carefully collected and spouted to the furnace under the boiler house, where it is consumed.

  67. All granaries should be provided with a sufficient plant of cleaning machinery to take from the grain impurities as would be likely to be detrimental to its storing qualities.

  68. The central or screening house section contains machinery specially designed for cleaning barley as well as wheat.

  69. The dread of tyranny was kept alive by the facility with which an over-powerful and unscrupulous citizen could seize the whole machinery of government.

  70. The object of language is to convey thought, and so long as this object is attained the machinery for attaining it is of comparatively slight importance.

  71. One or two accidents to the machinery lately looked like sabotage.

  72. The roar of the machinery took on the soft huskiness of her voice, the deeper note he watched for and loved.

  73. The major part of the machinery of the church must be engineered by the women.

  74. The men who work around the machinery and the boiling sugar wear as few clothes as possible, and the women who sew up the bags of sugar as fast as they are filled, have adopted the cool and comfortable but hideous Hawaiian garb of the holoku.

  75. When colour would have come into another cheek, a hardly discernible beat would come into his, as if the machinery for bringing up the ardent blood were there, but the machinery were dry.

  76. I studied its application to ordinary machinery and then applied it to the universe as a vast machine.

  77. It will be seen from the foregoing that electricity is the creative, evolving force of the universe, the word of omnipotent power, the creative machinery of suns and worlds.

  78. It was used for only a short time because the machinery was not sufficiently perfected, and there was too great a waste of power, and the insulation was bad, for it magnetized and stopped the watches in the pockets of the passengers.

  79. It organized the machinery of the worlds, and holds the secrets of nature and the mysteries of life in its invisible grasp.

  80. Electricity is the right hand of Deity, the tongue of the Spirit, the Word of Omnipotent power, the protean cosmic force and creative machinery of the universe.

  81. Second--These creative cosmic forces, by condensing the suns and planets into vast magnets revolving in a sea of electro-magnetic forces, evolved the marvelous machinery of the universe.

  82. As a rule the small sugar mills are crude and modern machinery has not been introduced to a great extent, although the largest plantations are already supplied with the latest improvements.

  83. With the introduction on a larger scale of modern machinery and the latest processes the sugar industry would be certain to afford satisfactory profits.

  84. A bounty is also to be paid for the exportation of each 100 pounds of hennequen and the machinery necessary on the plantation is to be imported free of duty.

  85. The gathering of the cacao beans requires very little machinery and few laborers.

  86. In every possible manner the importation of farm tools and agricultural machinery has been facilitated.

  87. If modern machinery is put in and the mine is run on a business basis, I should say at least that.

  88. A typical gold prospector, all the complicated machinery of his own mine meant little to him.

  89. But with lignite right on the ground, to make steam both for running the machinery and for steam thawing points, and with a pumping plant using heated sea water for hydraulicking, there ought to be a net profit of about three dollars a ton.

  90. The capitalist arrives with huge machinery for mining and crushing the rock, for turning on enormous water-power, in short, for performing a sort of artificial erosion in a few days which Nature took hundreds of thousands of years to do.

  91. A steady throbbing sound told that machinery connected with an outlet pipe--solidly embedded in the cement--had been set in motion.

  92. Not only that, but each shaft must have a complete outfit of winding machinery coupled to separate engines, so that, in the event of an accident happening to one shaft, the men below ground can be rescued up the other.

  93. You'll have to show me some proof, to start with, and what chances there are of taking the necessary machinery to the place, before I think about investing any capital.

  94. The law furnishes the machinery for the inquiry and the rules which determine how it shall be prosecuted.

  95. These wounds usually result from machinery accidents and accidental tears, etc.


  96. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "machinery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    action; agency; apparatus; appliance; appointments; appurtenances; armament; convenience; conveniences; device; drive; duffel; engine; equipage; equipment; expedient; facilities; facility; fitting; fixture; furnishings; furniture; gear; hardware; impedimenta; innards; installation; instrument; instrumentality; machine; machinery; material; materiel; mean; mechanism; mediation; motion; motor; movement; movements; munitions; outfit; paraphernalia; plant; plumbing; recourse; resort; rig; rigging; service; tackle; things; utensil; utility; wheels; workings; works


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    machinery and transport equipment; machinery and transportation equipment