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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• Trucks, airplanes and machinery all were put up for auction.
  — Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Feb. 2024
• Most of the bed is man-made without heavy factory machinery.
  — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 7 May 2023
• The bowler scrambled down the length of an alley and crawled up into the bowling pin machinery as the gunman fired randomly.
  — Daniella Silva, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2023
• The smallest dam, Copco No. 2, was torn down by crews using heavy machinery.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• Yes, baskets and textiles are both woven — one mostly by hand and the other often with the aid of machinery.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• The developers found a thick coating of sweet gunk on every bit of the machinery inside.
  — Curbed, 27 Sep. 2023
• Some of the imagery in the show—such as wiring maps and shards of machinery—is dedicated to the telescope’s engineering.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
• Shares of Deere, which makes most of its revenue from larger farm machinery and not its compact lines, were up more than 1% at midday in New York.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2024
• This is an artery traveling through the system of this entire machinery that’s Hollywood.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 8 Oct. 2024
• While organisms have evolved and diversified, their RNA-reading machinery has largely stayed the same.
  — Annie Melchor, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024