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In May, Swedish police arrested two people on suspicion of violating sanctions relating to a company in Turkey that has made dozens of shipments of metalworking and metal-turning machine tools to Russia.—Emma Burrows, Fortune, 30 May 2026 The term engineering is sometimes more loosely defined, especially in Great Britain, as the manufacture or assembly of engines, machine tools, and machine parts.—Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026 The Connecticut River Valley then became a node of machine tool manufacturing.—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2026 Excluding those categories, engines, communications equipment, machine tools and a variety of metals, increased.—Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 27 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for machine tool