How to Use mechanics in a Sentence

mechanics

noun
  • The cards are easy to read, and their mechanics feel true to their themes.
    Aaron Zimmerman, Ars Technica, 22 July 2022
  • The mechanics of the site have been their own challenge.
    New York Times, 19 May 2021
  • The two talked with state experts and, of course, practiced the mechanics of how to cast votes.
    Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2023
  • What moved to the foreground were the mechanics of how to truly care for those who were right in front of me.
    Joshua Mahoney, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Yet the mechanics of the play put the 49ers defense in conflict and gave Fields options.
    Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2022
  • At its core, builds off of a lot of great mechanics introduced in the first game.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The new combat mechanics also open up the world of Ori.
    Chris Hachey, BGR, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Plus, how would the mechanics of walking them back even work?
    Damon Young, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
  • McKenzie said Willis is not the type to try and over-coach or get in a pitcher’s face about mechanics.
    Joe Noga, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Can’t really shoot off the dribble and the mechanics may need sped up.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 16 June 2022
  • The plot mechanics, though, need Falstaff to be always on the make, a grifter who looks forward, not back.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The mechanics that set this up are as fluid and complex as the ones that end with Seth Bullock putting tin to tit.
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2021
  • The machines and all the electronics tell you what should be the right mechanics, throw the ball harder to get a better spin.
    Megan Ryan, Star Tribune, 28 May 2021
  • Obviously, the mechanics of it are still very much the same.
    Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 June 2022
  • Social gaming is no longer solely about the mechanics of the game.
    Adam Rumanek, Rolling Stone, 6 June 2022
  • In focusing on the mechanics of the balancing act, the film loses sight of the magic.
    Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2021
  • If the booster is in rough shape, the mechanics will replace them as necessary.
    Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 5 June 2022
  • But as a critic, too, Poe searched for meaning in mechanics.
    Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 11 June 2021
  • Erika Tevez-Valdez, 42, and Matthew Haider, 44, were mechanics.
    oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2022
  • For mechanics, the MCTS offered a $2,000 signing bonus.
    Ricardo Torres, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 July 2021
  • Jaeger-LeCoultre is keeping the mechanics behind the feat a secret.
    Alex Doak, CNN, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The track’s surface of crushed rock and tar breaks up in a number of places and causes the deaths of two drivers, two mechanics and two spectators.
    Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2021
  • In Bungie’s case, this is shooter mechanics, and if Destiny did not feel like one of the best shooters on the market, all of this would be pointless.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 26 May 2022
  • The wood and tin homes, which sat on stilts, could be raised up to 3 meters above ground with a pulley system, like the kind mechanics use to pull engines out of cars.
    Max G. Levy, Wired, 30 June 2021
  • About 600 of them are line mechanics and field personnel.
    Steven Martinez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2021
  • But Reyes bounced back, a product of refined game-planning and swing mechanics.
    Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Again, the mechanics of getting down to 53 isn’t difficult.
    David Moore, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Not until page twelve did the report describe the mechanics of murder.
    Jonathan Freedland, Time, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Quantum mechanics was the operating system of the universe.
    Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Quantum mechanics allows for particles to exist simultaneously in two or more places, and a change measured in one particle also shows a change measured in the others.
    Devika Rao, The Week, 4 Oct. 2022

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