MECHANISM in a Sentence

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165 example sentences for MECHANISM, such as:

1. This is a course in mechanics.
2. On this table he placed the mechanism.
3. Very gently, now, I slowed the mechanism down.
4. The mechanics of the process are quite complex.
5. Never copy foreign things blindly or mechanically.

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 Meanings and Examples of MECHANISM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mechanism
 n.  device; machine; the technical aspects of doing something
Classic Sentence: (130 in 9 pages)
1  A special contrast, as every man was in the forest of looms where Stephen worked, to the crashing, smashing, tearing piece of mechanism at which he laboured.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI
2  It is really only the mechanism of the re-assumed habit.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
3  Holmes had picked up the powerful air-gun from the floor, and was examining its mechanism.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
4  On this table he placed the mechanism.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In I
5  The Time Traveller looked at us, and then at the mechanism.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In I
6  I might have consoled myself by imagining the little people had put the mechanism in some shelter for me, had I not felt assured of their physical and intellectual inadequacy.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
7  An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In X
8  Very gently, now, I slowed the mechanism down.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In XII
9  She was one of those creatures which seem only not to speak because the mechanism of their mouth does not allow them to.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 21
10  Here Vronsky showed them the mechanism for ventilation on a novel system.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 20
11  And to do this, just as it was necessary to cook dinner, it was necessary to keep the mechanism of agriculture at Pokrovskoe going so as to yield an income.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 10
12  And all the while, like a hidden magician, Chichikov's lawyer imparted driving power to that machine which caught up a man into its mechanism before he could even look round.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
13  The estate had only recently been put on to the new reformed system, and the new mechanism worked, creaking like an ungreased wheel, warping and cracking like homemade furniture of unseasoned wood.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
14  The mechanism of life, the arrangement of the day so as to be in time everywhere, absorbed the greater part of his vital energy.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI
15  The scaffold is not a piece of carpentry; the scaffold is not a machine; the scaffold is not an inert bit of mechanism constructed of wood, iron and cords.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
16  We have studied the statistical mechanics of money circulation in a closed economic system.
17  Many of common foot complaints, like heel pain, arch pain and ball of foot pain, are caused by faulty foot mechanics.
18  In cases where no data were available, the most probable structure of a molecule was calculated using molecular mechanics.
19  Both quantum mechanics and chaos theory suggest a world constantly in flux.
20  This is a course in mechanics.
21  The mechanics of the process are quite complex.
22  Never copy foreign things blindly or mechanically.
23  But in aerial combat, the possibility of mechanical failure paled beside the dangers of enemy fire.
24  The phone includes a mechanical device that can make the phone vibrate when it would ring or make a sound, such as an incoming call or an alarm.
25  They are discussing a belief that the universe is a mechanical contrivance.
26  Human physiology is the science of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of humans in good health, their organs, and the cells.
27  The mainspring in a mechanical watch is the spring that stores energy of winding to operate the watch.
28  Charles Babbage's mechanical calculating engines were the antecedents of the modern computer.
29  Of course, minor mechanical faults sometimes occur.
30  Production has been hampered by mechanical failure.