How to Use machine in a Sentence

machine

1 of 2 noun

• The coach turned the team into a scoring machine.
• Their army is a well-oiled machine.
• He was bragging about his new machine.
• Do you know how to operate this machine?
• My younger brother is an eating machine.
• The machine is working properly.
• Shovels are tools; bulldozers are machines.
• And more machines are on the way.
  — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 10 June 2026
• The girls ran the machine again.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
• The ice machine had duct tape on it.
  — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado april 10, Sacbee.com, 10 Apr. 2026
• The machine takes over from there.
  — Mark Marino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Oct. 2025
• Such-and-such tiny changes to the machines.
  — Rachel Pearson, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
• The machines whizzed and whirred.
  — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
• The goal isn’t to hand a child over to a machine.
  — Gerald Bradshaw, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026
• Still, the machines pressed on.
  — Josh Tyrangiel, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026
• Three flies hung out around the ice machine and around lemons.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
• Just plop it in the machine and go on with your busy day.
  — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 6 Feb. 2026
• Their heads, cooled with ice packs, stick out of the machine.
  — Will Stone, NPR, 6 Mar. 2026
• The 20-year-old was a key cog of that machine.
  — Kevin Kurz, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
• No soap at the handwash sinks next to the dish machine.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2026
• Wash hard plastic toys by hand or in the machine.
  — Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Feb. 2026
• The book is about the people in the machine.
  — Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
• No soap at the handwash sink next to the ice machine.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
• Italy will have the espresso machine at the ready.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 13 Mar. 2026
• The truth is that people are not machines.
  — Shelley Zalis, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
• Either can cause buildup in both machines and on clothes.
  — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Nov. 2025
• The machines themselves did not look all that scary.
  — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026
• What are the best adding machines to buy for your office?
  — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026
• The question now isn’t just whether machines can hear us.
  — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• Some machines can be reversed to blow residue away.
  — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 11 June 2026

machine

2 of 2 verb

• The parts of the engine have been precisely machined.
• Feel free to machine or hand wash it cold, and then hang it up to dry.
  — Mia Huelsbeck, Peoplemag, 12 June 2023
• The phone is machined from a single piece of stainless steel.
  — Stefan Nicola, Bloomberg.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• It doesn’t look machined—there was a human behind it.
  — Emilia Petrarca, New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2026
• That rush can’t be machined or algorithmed.
  — Holly Gleason, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
• Check out those wheels, looking like they were machined from a solid chunk of attitudinum.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 30 Mar. 2020
• The Hagane gears are cold-forged instead of molded or machined.
  — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
• The horseshoe grille and steering wheel are machined from solid aluminum blocks.
  — New Atlas, 6 Feb. 2026
• On my '90s bike, the axle itself nested in a notch machined into the frame.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2018
• Some mechanics claim the rotors are made too thin nowadays and cannot be machined anymore.
  — John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs and Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2026
• It’s crafted from 100 percent cotton and is easy to machine wash and air dry.
  — Ali Faccenda, PEOPLE, 5 Dec. 2025
• All sizes are dyed without the use of harmful chemicals and are easy to machine wash and dry on a low setting.
  — Jacqueline Tempera, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
• The forms were then precision-machined to meet tight tolerances.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 5 Dec. 2025
• The failure was traced back to a tiny pipe that was machined only slightly imprecisely.
  — Roma Agrawal, New York Times, 14 May 2018
• Having the option to go sock-free and being able to machine wash the Allbirds shoes are two of the shoe's best features.
  — Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping, 15 Oct. 2019
• Instead of casting forks in bulk, each one is CNC-machined from high-grade aluminum.
  — Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2026
• How will machine learning be operationalized for the first model and for all those to follow?
  — Adam Famularo, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• Advanced manufacturing students were needed to machine some of the parts and build the plaques.
  — John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2021
• Aluminum can be machined rather than cast and is therefore cheaper and quicker to manufacture.
  — New Atlas, 10 Apr. 2026
• Here, the filament is a flat, wavy 1-square-centimeter piece of tungsten laser-machined from a thin tungsten sheet.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Jan. 2016
• At the heart of the Polar is the lighter itself, which is machined from a solid block of the buyer's choice of titanium or brass.
  — New Atlas, 13 Jan. 2026
• In an effort to reduce weight and increase fuel economy, today's rotors are very thin and cannot be machined in most cases.
  — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 24 June 2017
• The plant will be able to machine parts parts, weld and join parts and perform additive manufacturing, Pacheco said.
  — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 18 Feb. 2020
• The ferrule is machined from grade-5 titanium with a precision-ground tip.
  — Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2020
• Duvets cannot be used without a duvet cover, and, unlike the cover, require dry cleaning as opposed to machine wash.
  — Lucia Tonelli, ELLE Decor, 11 Oct. 2018
• However, if your dog is prone to accidents or strong body odor, being able to machine wash the entire dog bed is probably preferred.
  — Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
• For a device of such complexity to have functioned, the parts would have needed to be incredibly well machined.
  — Scientific American, 1 May 2022
• Assuming adequate rotor thickness remains, they can be machined to a fresh/true surface.
  — Brad Bergholdt, chicagotribune.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• Couldn't machine learning or AI or another hot tech buzzword wrangle the tags instead?
  — Gretchen McCulloch, WIRED, 11 June 2019
• This ‘biner carries your keys, of course, but also has a bottle opener and is machined from one piece of aluminum for superior strength.
  — Will Porter, Outside, 9 Dec. 2025