How to Use apparatus in a Sentence

apparatus

noun

• Possible uses included: a plumb bob or a loom weight, a liquid sprinkler, a fire starter, a lamp, a smoking pipe, or parts of an apparatus for distillation.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 May 2022
• The messages close with an invitation for extraterrestrials to respond using a radio telescope apparatus of their own.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 7 May 2022
• Another machine funneled them into a heavy polyethylene bag the size of a baby elephant, from which they were poured onto a conveyor-belt apparatus to be scrubbed, sorted and bagged.
  — Ellen Ruppel Shell, Scientific American, 1 May 2022
• Then her gaze flicked over to the rolling drums of the apparatus and the black paper that had opened a window to her heart.
  — Amit Katwala, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2023
• And that spot went to 19-year-old Kocian who turned in top scores on the apparatus at the trials.
  — Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
• Britney Spears is putting her dance skills to the test with a brand new apparatus.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 14 Aug. 2023
• The trick that’s worked best for me over the years doesn’t involve a third party apparatus.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 13 Dec. 2023
• The apparatus stands a few feet high, with three legs and a metal head that’s angled toward the sky.
  — Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2024
• The idea of a wave-dampening apparatus is not new, but what is new is the purpose and the scale of the Wavebreaker.
  — Aruni Soni, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
• The machine was also supposed to have a limit switch to slow the speed of the rollers when the guard is raised, but the apparatus had been removed.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 15 June 2022
• Leave the whole apparatus on the stove, and let the residual heat and steam gently melt the chocolate and butter.
  — Charlotte Druckman, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2023
• The workings of the apparatus is not lost to Uvalde residents.
  — Palabra, al, 7 June 2022
• Jim Cramer doesn’t have a great record versus the S&P 500, but there’s a whole apparatus on cable news that the advice stays within the bounds.
  — Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post, 24 July 2022
• The tan leather breathing apparatus Spurway wore on her chest was called a Salvus.
  — Rachel Lance, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024
• Sasha took the bottle and walked over to the military apparatus.
  — Vladimir Sorokin, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• Biles had the top all-around score, and the high mark in three of four the individual apparatuses.
  — Ina Fried, Axios, 28 July 2024
• There was no sign that any of the security apparatus around Putin had - had switched sides.
  — CBS News, 25 June 2023
• There was no sign that any of the security apparatus around Putin had- had switched sides.
  — CBS News, 25 June 2023
• That was by Skye Blakely, who came off the beam after her foot landed on the edge of the 4-inch apparatus on a back somersault.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2022
• There is show-and-tell with an apparatus that can detect volatile chemicals in the parts-per-trillion range.
  — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2023
• He’s been working on the mental side of competing, which gave him the confidence to be the first member of the U.S. team on most of the apparatus in the sessions in Paris so far.
  — Alice Park/paris, TIME, 31 July 2024
• But the probes involve lasers, microscopes, and other apparatus far too heavy for such a small head.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Dec. 2023
• The apparatus allows lifters to load up heavy and press with confidence, without the need for a spotter in case of failure.
  — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 27 Jan. 2023
• The pack's frame bolts to the passenger-side frame rail, opposite the cooling apparatus attached to the driver-side rail.
  — Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 13 May 2023
• The box, big enough to hold a man and some electrical apparatus, was covered and kept dry, and a 6- to 9-meter iron rod passed upward through the box, ending in a sharp point.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Apr. 2023
• Attached to one end of the pipe was a buoy to keep the apparatus afloat; on the other end, a metal grate weighed it down so river water could flow into a small glass jar.
  — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023
• The crew attached inflatable bags to the tarp and pumped in air Thursday morning — allowing the whole apparatus to float to the surface.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 22 Sep. 2022
• Would part of that investment look at staffing up a huge apparatus for The Telegraph digitally here in the U.S?
  — Lachlan Cartwright, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2024
• Ali Al-Ahmed, a dissident Saudi scholar who kept in touch with Sahar, sent me a photograph of an apparatus that the sisters had jerry-rigged to distill fresh water from the sea, and one of a copper hook for catching fish and crabs.
  — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
• Getting quantum processors to this temperature requires a very bulky refrigeration apparatus, which limits the facilities they can be installed in.
  — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Nov 2024