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
• But over three decades, the ride’s novelty and machinery had worn off and worn down.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 7 Aug. 2024
• Some people fled down the bowling lanes and climbed up into the machinery behind the pins.
  — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• Classic rock could be heard playing on the radio, over the thrum of machinery.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• To make matters worse, any plastic film that gets into the line clogs the machinery, which means workers have to cut it out.
  — Cynthia Sewell, Idaho Statesman, 8 Apr. 2024
• The court struck down Jim Crow laws, expanded the franchise, and erected guardrails to constrain the punitive machinery of the state.
  — Ian MacDougall, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• The facility’s machinery was strewn across the warehouse, milk spoiled, and inches of mud pilled all over the floor.
  — Jay Croft and Isabel Rosales, CNN, 28 Sep. 2024
• In farm machinery, John Deere and Kubota account for about a third of the market.
  — The Conversation, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2023
• It can be used to purchase and improve the property, and to buy machinery and equipment.
  — Geri Stengel, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
• The forest in the photo above was entirely logged with heavy machinery 80 years ago.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2023
• If the machinery of oppressive power is to be trained on the weak, then there is a duty to stop the gears by any means necessary.
  — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 5 May 2024
• Conditions in the permit barred the use of heavy machinery in the tidal zone and removal of sand from the public beach, according to the complaint.
  — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024
• And so Dunkin’ (nee Dunkin’ Donuts) is yet another cog in the machinery of retail consolidation that puts the big boys on top and makes mom and pops flops.
  — Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 19 Dec. 2024
• This is where Alain Ducasse's chocolates are handcrafted using vintage machinery.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Jan 2025