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
• Heavy machinery could be seen digging through the area, but to no avail.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023
• Down more steps still, the lower deck houses all the machinery (tanks, chain lockers, and the like).
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 15 Nov. 2023
• Some people fled down the bowling lanes and climbed up into the machinery behind the pins.
  — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 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
• The forest in the photo above was entirely logged with heavy machinery 80 years ago.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2023
• 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
• By Sunday, park officials cleared the majority of the beach with the exception of fish the machinery couldn't get.
  — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 12 June 2023
• Of course, Majeski would be good steering any piece of machinery.
  — Ben Steele, Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2023
• In 2014, during a landscaping effort to clear some brush, a piece of heavy machinery struck the ironstone, breaking off a chunk and revealing more of the bone.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2023
• In past centuries, the machinery of war would grind to a halt when harsh conditions pushed human endurance to its limits.
  — Eric Schmidt, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2024
• That woman’s son had been crushed by farm machinery and nearly lost his leg a year earlier.
  — Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, 26 May 2023
• Splashes of color, bubbles, tubes, machinery, and glowing rocks covered with runes flow across the room in response to what the telescope has found.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
• Half of that deficit was in vehicles and machinery, according to statistics from the EU.
  — Laura He, CNN, 25 Sep. 2023
• His wife, Kim, went to work, first stocking shelves and then running machinery for a company that builds buses.
  — Anna Clark, ProPublica, 2 Jan. 2024
• Fouling on boats and machinery can be a big problem, and scientists are searching for ways to prevent it.
  — Discover Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
• Some $200 million worth of machinery bought by state taxpayers has since been sold off or simply scrapped.
  — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
• Charles Gilbert and John Barker formed a company in 1865 to make machinery for gas lighting systems.
  — Katherine Ott, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2023
• Mark’s Place: New projects tug at superstar chef/owner Mark Militello, but the machinery he’s put into place here still hums.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024