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.
• The machines make the two most popular rounds for AR-15-style guns.
  — Ben Dooley Emily Rhyne, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• The machine was placed outside the nonprofit Bread for the City last year.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023
• And, even with all of the beauty of these moving pieces, Lusk’s voice is the engine that makes the machine go.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• Tom would have an idea, Jonathan would have ideas, Owen is an idea machine.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 20 Oct. 2023
• Could the one with the lower count have been reset at some point, or the machine replaced?
  — Alden Wicker, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2024
• The computers and a dolly were just kind of like rigged to this machine.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2023
• Pink confetti shot out from a machine in front of the podium as the bell rang.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 16 Mar. 2024
• Just be sure to hand wash them, as cashmere doesn’t machine wash well.
  — Talia Ergas, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2023
• Some blankets can be machine dried, but many need to air-dry.
  — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 18 July 2023
• That whole movie is about, ‘Is this machine sentient or not?
  — EW.com, 28 Mar. 2024
• The rest of the Dunkin’ employees seemed less than thrilled to make the bev, though, which makes sense, now knowing that the machine gets clogged by the Munchkins.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2023
• Plus, the polyester cover is easy to spot clean (or lint roll, to clean up pet hair) and comes off for machine washing.
  — Phoebe Sklansky, Parents, 25 Nov. 2023
• Over the course of a matter of weeks, that could lead to an entire fleet of infected machines.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2024
• In one, the Queen of Pop is using a Reformer machine to do moves that focus on her butt, thighs, and arms.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 13 June 2023
• The same process is repeated with the same ping-pong balls and lottery machine for the second through fourth picks.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 17 May 2023
• The one who touches home plate, no matter how dramatic his route to get there, is just the last click of the machine.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• See our and our age-specific gift guides such as the best gifts for 7-year-olds and roundups like the best bubble machines.
  — Jessica Hartshorn and Alissa Schulman, Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2023
• In order to care for this comforter, machine wash, and tumble dry.
  — Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Jan. 2024
• The noise of the conveyor belts and packing machines creates a constant roar.
  — Ted Genoways, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
• Surface Type Two-stage machines are the only way to go on a gravel driveway.
  — Ben Romans, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• According to the label, the Uniqlo crossbody bag cannot be machine washed or dry cleaned.
  — Sarah Maberry, Good Housekeeping, 13 June 2023
• Walk-On's has a kid's menu and a mini arcade area with claw machines, Golden Tee and other games.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 12 May 2023
• The machine gave you powers but required you to study its arcane secrets—to learn a spell language.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023

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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
• On my '90s bike, the axle itself nested in a notch machined into the frame.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 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
• The Hagane gears are cold-forged instead of molded or machined.
  — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
• The ferrule is fully machined, and the Anix Blade Locking System keeps the blades secure at all times.
  — Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2020
• Check out those wheels, looking like they were machined from a solid chunk of attitudinum.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 30 Mar. 2020
• Advanced manufacturing students were needed to machine some of the parts and build the plaques.
  — John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2021
• The failure was traced back to a tiny pipe that was machined only slightly imprecisely.
  — Roma Agrawal, New York Times, 14 May 2018
• There was one issue: the shovel handle was oval, while the attachments on the cross arm were machined for circular tubing.
  — National Geographic, 27 June 2019
• The plant will be able to machine parts parts, weld and join parts and perform additive manufacturing, Pacheco said.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 18 Feb. 2020
• How will machine learning be operationalized for the first model and for all those to follow?
  — Adam Famularo, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• Unlike gold, which allows the craftsman to shape the prongs to secure the diamonds, Carbon TPT requires the use of diamond-bit milling tools to machine the settings.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2022
• Even to turn a fuel source into the shape and size needed for a particular reactor means it must be machined safely, which the HFEF also does.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 Jan. 2020
• For a device of such complexity to have functioned, the parts would have needed to be incredibly well machined.
  — Scientific American, 1 May 2022
• Couldn't machine learning or AI or another hot tech buzzword wrangle the tags instead?
  — Gretchen McCulloch, WIRED, 11 June 2019
• 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
• The ferrule is machined from grade-5 titanium with a precision-ground tip.
  — Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2020
• 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
• But what Moy’s video does highlight is the level of detail and difficulty that Apple is putting into machining the Mac Pro grates.
  — Chaim Gartenberg, The Verge, 20 June 2019
• 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
• Before deciding to give the world of machining a try, Naranjo researched the career in-depth, including reading comments from women in the field.
  — Donna Kiesling, Post-Tribune, 1 June 2017
• Most notably, The Field Company machined the cooking surface of their skillet to a high sheen so food is less likely to stick; a detail that helps with things like grabbing and flipping over-easy eggs.
  — Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 20 Apr. 2018
• The whole contraption was encased in a cast-iron housing machined by John Feltner, a father of three who’d just recovered from bankruptcy.
  — Written By Farah Stockman; Photographs By Alyssa Schukar, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2017
• The gun is guaranteed sub-MOA with match ammunition, features in-house machined and matched upper and lower receivers.
  — John Haughey, Outdoor Life, 10 Apr. 2019
• It was once considered modern to architect this chaos into order, to machine the wet muck of existence into clean lines and hard edges.
  — Matthew Schneier, Curbed, 14 Sep. 2021
• Other weight savings are achieved by use of a slender-contour, 20-inch barrel along with aggressive spiral fluting of the bolt and machined flats and recesses in the sides of the action, which is pillar-bedded to the stock.
  — Mike Dickerson, Field & Stream, 19 July 2023
• What happened to rebuilding calipers and machining rotors?
  — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 24 June 2017
• It’s packaged in a flawlessly machined and finished single chassis that doubles as audio art.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 18 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024