How to Use machine in a Sentence

machine

1 of 2 noun

• The coach turned the team into a scoring machine.
• Their army is a well-oiled machine.
• He was bragging about his new machine.
• Do you know how to operate this machine?
• My younger brother is an eating machine.
• The machine is working properly.
• Shovels are tools; bulldozers are machines.
• The machines make the two most popular rounds for AR-15-style guns.
  — Ben Dooley Emily Rhyne, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• The machine was placed outside the nonprofit Bread for the City last year.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023
• And, even with all of the beauty of these moving pieces, Lusk’s voice is the engine that makes the machine go.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• Tom would have an idea, Jonathan would have ideas, Owen is an idea machine.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 20 Oct. 2023
• Could the one with the lower count have been reset at some point, or the machine replaced?
  — Alden Wicker, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2024
• The computers and a dolly were just kind of like rigged to this machine.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2023
• Pink confetti shot out from a machine in front of the podium as the bell rang.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 16 Mar. 2024
• Just be sure to hand wash them, as cashmere doesn’t machine wash well.
  — Talia Ergas, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2023
• Some blankets can be machine dried, but many need to air-dry.
  — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 18 July 2023
• That whole movie is about, ‘Is this machine sentient or not?
  — EW.com, 28 Mar. 2024
• The rest of the Dunkin’ employees seemed less than thrilled to make the bev, though, which makes sense, now knowing that the machine gets clogged by the Munchkins.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2023
• Plus, the polyester cover is easy to spot clean (or lint roll, to clean up pet hair) and comes off for machine washing.
  — Phoebe Sklansky, Parents, 25 Nov. 2023
• Over the course of a matter of weeks, that could lead to an entire fleet of infected machines.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2024
• In one, the Queen of Pop is using a Reformer machine to do moves that focus on her butt, thighs, and arms.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 13 June 2023
• The same process is repeated with the same ping-pong balls and lottery machine for the second through fourth picks.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 17 May 2023
• The one who touches home plate, no matter how dramatic his route to get there, is just the last click of the machine.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• See our and our age-specific gift guides such as the best gifts for 7-year-olds and roundups like the best bubble machines.
  — Jessica Hartshorn and Alissa Schulman, Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2023
• In order to care for this comforter, machine wash, and tumble dry.
  — Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Jan. 2024
• The noise of the conveyor belts and packing machines creates a constant roar.
  — Ted Genoways, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
• Surface Type Two-stage machines are the only way to go on a gravel driveway.
  — Ben Romans, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• According to the label, the Uniqlo crossbody bag cannot be machine washed or dry cleaned.
  — Sarah Maberry, Good Housekeeping, 13 June 2023
• Like Mulrooney, Stinnett fears the bill is the beginning of the end of electronic pull tab machines for charitable fundraising.
  — The Courier-Journal, 9 Apr. 2024
• This is one of the most broadly applicable responsible AI practices that should be mandated for any company using machine learning.
  — Quora, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024

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machine

2 of 2 verb

• The parts of the engine have been precisely machined.
• Feel free to machine or hand wash it cold, and then hang it up to dry.
  — Mia Huelsbeck, Peoplemag, 12 June 2023
• The phone is machined from a single piece of stainless steel.
  — Stefan Nicola, Bloomberg.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• On my '90s bike, the axle itself nested in a notch machined into the frame.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2018
• Having the option to go sock-free and being able to machine wash the Allbirds shoes are two of the shoe's best features.
  — Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping, 15 Oct. 2019
• The Hagane gears are cold-forged instead of molded or machined.
  — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
• The ferrule is fully machined, and the Anix Blade Locking System keeps the blades secure at all times.
  — Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2020
• Check out those wheels, looking like they were machined from a solid chunk of attitudinum.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 30 Mar. 2020
• Advanced manufacturing students were needed to machine some of the parts and build the plaques.
  — John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2021
• The failure was traced back to a tiny pipe that was machined only slightly imprecisely.
  — Roma Agrawal, New York Times, 14 May 2018
• There was one issue: the shovel handle was oval, while the attachments on the cross arm were machined for circular tubing.
  — National Geographic, 27 June 2019
• The plant will be able to machine parts parts, weld and join parts and perform additive manufacturing, Pacheco said.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 18 Feb. 2020
• How will machine learning be operationalized for the first model and for all those to follow?
  — Adam Famularo, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• Unlike gold, which allows the craftsman to shape the prongs to secure the diamonds, Carbon TPT requires the use of diamond-bit milling tools to machine the settings.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2022
• Even to turn a fuel source into the shape and size needed for a particular reactor means it must be machined safely, which the HFEF also does.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 Jan. 2020
• For a device of such complexity to have functioned, the parts would have needed to be incredibly well machined.
  — Scientific American, 1 May 2022
• Couldn't machine learning or AI or another hot tech buzzword wrangle the tags instead?
  — Gretchen McCulloch, WIRED, 11 June 2019
• Duvets cannot be used without a duvet cover, and, unlike the cover, require dry cleaning as opposed to machine wash.
  — Lucia Tonelli, ELLE Decor, 11 Oct. 2018
• The ferrule is machined from grade-5 titanium with a precision-ground tip.
  — Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2020
• However, if your dog is prone to accidents or strong body odor, being able to machine wash the entire dog bed is probably preferred.
  — Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
• But what Moy’s video does highlight is the level of detail and difficulty that Apple is putting into machining the Mac Pro grates.
  — Chaim Gartenberg, The Verge, 20 June 2019
• In an effort to reduce weight and increase fuel economy, today's rotors are very thin and cannot be machined in most cases.
  — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 24 June 2017
• Before deciding to give the world of machining a try, Naranjo researched the career in-depth, including reading comments from women in the field.
  — Donna Kiesling, Post-Tribune, 1 June 2017
• Most notably, The Field Company machined the cooking surface of their skillet to a high sheen so food is less likely to stick; a detail that helps with things like grabbing and flipping over-easy eggs.
  — Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 20 Apr. 2018
• The whole contraption was encased in a cast-iron housing machined by John Feltner, a father of three who’d just recovered from bankruptcy.
  — Written By Farah Stockman; Photographs By Alyssa Schukar, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2017
• The gun is guaranteed sub-MOA with match ammunition, features in-house machined and matched upper and lower receivers.
  — John Haughey, Outdoor Life, 10 Apr. 2019
• It was once considered modern to architect this chaos into order, to machine the wet muck of existence into clean lines and hard edges.
  — Matthew Schneier, Curbed, 14 Sep. 2021
• Other weight savings are achieved by use of a slender-contour, 20-inch barrel along with aggressive spiral fluting of the bolt and machined flats and recesses in the sides of the action, which is pillar-bedded to the stock.
  — Mike Dickerson, Field & Stream, 19 July 2023
• What happened to rebuilding calipers and machining rotors?
  — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 24 June 2017
• Alabama technicians and machinists at what is now General Dynamics in Cullman machined the mirrors that catch the light Webb uses to show those wonders as far as 13 billion light years away.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 12 July 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024