How to Use by machine in a Sentence
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Heck, even the whistling sound on the record was done by machine.
—Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 May 2021
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Crochet can’t be made by machine; it’s all made by hand.
—The Editors, ELLE, 24 July 2023
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At age thirteen my father was awoken by machine gun fire in the streets of Madrid.
—Sebastian Junger, Time, 19 May 2021
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In a recount, officials could rescan the QR codes by machine or hand count the text.
—Amy Gardner, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024
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Once a batch of envelopes passed muster, workers got in lines to have stacks of the envelopes opened quickly by machine.
—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2020
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The puzzles are then cut and disassembled by machine, and bagged and boxed by hand.
—David Frese, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
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It was dedicated to a girl who had been killed by machine gunfire.
—Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2022
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Shibabaw’s fresh flatbread is a simple dough of all-purpose flour, oil and butter, mixed by machine and pan-fried to order.
—Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2022
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And much of what was once done with clinicians’ eyes, ears, and hands can now be done more efficiently by machine.
—Bryan Vartabedian, STAT, 14 Apr. 2021
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The scheme sometimes requires disassembly of Lego sets, and sorting of bricks both by machine and by hand.
—WIRED, 30 Sep. 2023
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Greenwood residents were shot at point-blank range with their hands up, gunned down with their backs turned, picked off by machine guns perched atop a hill and bombed from above by planes.
—Suzette Malveaux, Washington Post, 19 June 2023
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The signature on each ballot must be matched with what's on file for the voter, a process that can be done manually or by machine.
—Kathleen Ronayne, ajc, 17 Nov. 2022
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While leathers can now be cut by machine or laser as well as by hand, most of the construction is done by someone in a coverall brandishing a tool.
—Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 27 Aug. 2023
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Many of them have hung out their own shingles, using their slide rules to calculate profit and loss while the exciting deals are done by machine.
—Bob Ivry, Town & Country, 3 June 2021
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While the majority of the cigars are made by machine, three hand rollers work on the factory’s top floor rolling the company’s premium cigars.
—Jennifer Simonson, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2021
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The first sequence showed the aftermath of a mass murder at Leipzig, where men and women fleeing a burning barracks were mowed down by machine gun fire.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Feb. 2023
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This artwork wasn’t manufactured by machine, but each was built and bonded by hand.
—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 16 May 2023
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Two recounts, one by hand and one by machine, confirmed Mr. Biden’s victory in Georgia.
—Alexa Corse, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2020
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One proposal suggested a tax on every yard of cloth made by machine.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2023
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Almost all the work is done by hand, and even those small sections sewn by machine are worked on with an old-fashioned manual contraption straight out of Coco Chanel’s time.
—New York Times, 11 Oct. 2021
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Those same ballots have already been counted mostly by machine in the days after the election, then subjected to a full hand recount and an audit.
—NBC News, 24 Nov. 2020
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The failure meant travelers had to have their passports checked manually rather than by machine.
—Sharon Braithwaite, CNN, 27 May 2023
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The curves that Ruskin thought only fingers could fashion are now better executed by machine.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 24 Nov. 2021
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New research shows that detecting digital fakes generated by machine learning might be a job best done with humans still in the loop.
—Sarah Vitak, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2022
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Nearly 200 years after his death, the German composer’s musical scratch was pieced together by machine—with a lot of human help.
—Teresa Carey, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2021
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Deere also recently unveiled a crop sprayer aided by machine learning.
—Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 18 May 2022
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Paperless voting machines began giving way in many places to paper ballots that could be scanned and counted by machine, a system widely seen as more secure.
—Emma Brown and Jon Swaine, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Oct. 2022
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On one hand, having, say, the River Village area littered with huts that can be shredded by machine gun fire could be pretty fun and present a challenge for campers players who like to stay in one defensible position for most of a round.
—Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2021
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Definition line is produced by machine, offering the weight and feel of handblown glass with the precision of modern technology.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2022
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The new technology is powered by machine learning: the idea that computers can be trained to hunt through massive troves of data and suss out esoteric patterns that are invisible to the human brain.
—David Shultz, Outside Online, 13 Apr. 2021
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