How to Use pneumatic in a Sentence

pneumatic

adjective
  • The pneumatic hiss and click of the plunger sounded like a door closing.
    Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
  • One thing the repairs will not cover is the pneumatic gate at the front of the canoe chute.
    Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Banks of pneumatic valves caused the players to wave their arms, blink their eyes, and move their heads.
    IEEE Spectrum, 2 Dec. 2024
  • New York wasn’t the first city to embrace pneumatic mail.
    Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Then the pneumatic system lowers both the seat and lid.
    Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2023
  • There were no trap doors or pneumatic lifts at the Circle Star.
    Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Aug. 2021
  • To speed things up, a pneumatic tube was run from the Western Union’s building to the Board of Trade’s building.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023
  • The truck had a pneumatic lift for a dumpster that was raised, which was ripped off, police said.
    Bailey Allen, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2022
  • There will be a pneumatic tube called the Burger Launcher to shoot short orders up to the tap room of the brewery.
    Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 13 Aug. 2017
  • The Gila’s head moves like a pneumatic hammer, up and down, up and down, drilling into flesh and bone with the force of 1,000 G’s.
    Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 4 Jan. 2017
  • The Gila’s head moves like a pneumatic hammer, up and down, up and down, drilling into flesh and bone with the force of 1,000 G’s.
    Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 4 Jan. 2017
  • Fasten the rim to the top of the box with 2½-inch pneumatic nails or 8d galvanized finish nails [5].
    Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2021
  • The release part is easy enough, the design allows the aircraft to launch from a pneumatic rail.
    Chris Clarke, Popular Mechanics, 20 Oct. 2017
  • This dump cart comes in four bright colors, and it’s mounted on 10-inch pneumatic tires.
    Camryn Rabideau, Popular Mechanics, 22 July 2022
  • The 13-inch pneumatic wheels are 4 inches thick and tough enough to make it over a variety of terrain.
    Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 July 2023
  • In many airliners, the APU air is used to turn the pneumatic starter for the engines, which needs to be run weekly themselves.
    John Cox, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Boosters have been heralding the dawn of a new age of pneumatic trash collection for decades.
    Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Tack-nail each part using a pneumatic pin nailer or a hammer in a few brads.
    Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 24 Jan. 2019
  • First position the bottom over the two ends and fasten it with the pneumatic nailer.
    Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Two workers fed the orbs into a pneumatic press that smushed them into flat discs.
    Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2021
  • The exam rooms feature pneumatic chairs rather than the benches that patients now must hop up on.
    Cathie Anderson, sacbee, 3 June 2018
  • The exam rooms feature pneumatic chairs rather than the benches that patients now must hop up on.
    Cathie Anderson, sacbee, 3 June 2018
  • The exam rooms feature pneumatic chairs rather than the benches that patients now must hop up on.
    Cathie Anderson, sacbee, 3 June 2018
  • The exam rooms feature pneumatic chairs rather than the benches that patients now must hop up on.
    Cathie Anderson, sacbee, 3 June 2018
  • Wertz loves New York down to its guts: the pneumatic tubes that stretch the length of the island and were once used to send gusts of letters from one post office to another.
    Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Two more workers fastened the panels to steel beams with pneumatic guns.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The eight-inch pneumatic tires soften the ride, and two 12-volt batteries provide power for up to 6.5 miles.
    Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 6 May 2023
  • The two seats up front as well as two in the rear feature electric motors with pneumatic systems to fine tune comfort.
    Terry Troy, cleveland.com, 21 Oct. 2017
  • The final step in this metamorphosis is the inflation of a double-shell pneumatic dome on top of the platform.
    Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Stan found 1940 license plates with PC imprinted to indicate the truck has pneumatic tires.
    David Krumboltz, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2025

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