Examples of machinery in a Sentence
Some of the mill's machinery was damaged in the fire.
a piece of farm machinery
Something was clogging the machinery.
The United Nations has set up machinery for mediation.
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Police have not released any further details about the machinery involved or Hunter’s injuries at this time, but the investigation is ongoing.
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David Matthews, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2025
Yet the machinery for managing the reserve remains primitive.
—Dave Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
That means as Bitcoin matures, it’s being folded into the same financial machinery that once dismissed it — with IBIT at the center of the shift.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 28 July 2025
Starting in 2021, drivers navigated cones and heavy machinery on Main: first from utility companies like KC Water and AT&T moving their underground infrastructure, then from streetcar construction crews.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 24 July 2025
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David Matthews, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2025
Yet the machinery for managing the reserve remains primitive.
—Dave Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
That means as Bitcoin matures, it’s being folded into the same financial machinery that once dismissed it — with IBIT at the center of the shift.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 28 July 2025
Starting in 2021, drivers navigated cones and heavy machinery on Main: first from utility companies like KC Water and AT&T moving their underground infrastructure, then from streetcar construction crews.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 24 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for machinery
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“Machinery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/machinery. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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machinery
noun
ma·chin·ery
mə-ˈshēn-(ə-)rē 
plural machineries
1
: machines in general
2
: the working parts of a machine or instrument
3
: the organization or system by which something is done or carried on
machinery of government
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