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Examples of time machine in a Sentence
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The British sci-fi series follows the Doctor, an alien Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who explores time and space using a time machine known as the TARDIS, which from the outside looks like a blue police box.
—Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
Food nostalgia is like a time machine that whisks you away to moments filled with warmth and familiarity, all triggered by the simple act of tasting a beloved dish.
—Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2024
In the 1985 film's final moment, Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) climbs atop the clocktower to plug in a cord that'll power the time machine once struck by lightning to send Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) back to the future — leaving just a trail of fire on the road in its wake.
—Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2024
Tanzania’s Serengeti ecosystem is like a time machine.
—T. Michael Anderson, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2024
This was near the end of a golden age of Seventies reunions when the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Kiss, and Jimmy Page and Robert Plant were all making a fortune by taking their fans on a time machine two decades into the past.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2024
In writer/director Stimson Stead’s irreverent world premiere, Dunning plays numerous versions of lonely, crackpot scientist Tim Travers, inventor of a time machine that spins the universe off its axis, and also kills off multiple versions of his younger self.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2024
Your time machine awaits at digitalibrary.usc.edu. 2.
—Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
View More Last July, the photographer Ann Hermes visited the radio squirrels and stepped into their time machine.
—Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1895, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near time machine
Cite this Entry
“Time machine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/time%20machine. Accessed 23 May. 2024.
Kids Definition
time machine
noun
: a fictional machine that allows one to travel backward or forward in time
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